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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Soulhat’s ‘Live at the Black Cat’ to get national rerelease
Soulhat owned 1991 in Austin, especially at the Black Cat on Sixth Street, where their four-hour sets gave many young Austinites their first taste of live club music. Every Friday at 5 p.m. KLBJ’s Johnny Walker played “Bonecrusher” to signal the start of the weekend.
The Black Cat’s just a burned-out shell, and Soulhat rarely plays anymore, but the glory days can be revisited starting Dec. 8 when Nashville’s Dualtone label puts out what was once just a cassette with a run of 5,000.
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Blue October set list 11/20 Stubb’s
1. ‘HRSA’
2. ‘Clumsy Card House’
3. ‘Say It’
4. ‘Dirt Room’
5. ‘Been Down’
6. ‘My Never’
7. ‘Balance Beam’
8. ‘Picking Up Pieces’
9. ‘Should Be Loved’
10. ‘Congratulations’
11. ‘Into the Ocean’
12. ‘Jump Rope’
13. ‘She’s My Ride Home’
14. ‘Razorblade’
15. ‘Somebody’
16. ‘Blue Sunshine’
17. ‘Calling You’
18. ‘X Amount of Words’
ENCORE
19.’It’s Just Me’
20. ‘Come In Closer’
21. ‘Hate Me’
Justin Furstenfeld sings ‘It’s Just Me’ last night at Stubb’s
The rain killed the scalpers, as the first show since Justin Furstenfeld’s breakdown and hospitalization didn’t sell out. But the show was packed with powerful moments, as this band’s followers are a wildly devoted lot. The constant drizzle felt like Blue October weather.
On Thursday, Furstenfeld said he was nervous because he wasn’t yet used to new medication. In rehearsals he was forgetting lyrics, but after a somewhat subdued opening, the set really kicked in with “Dirt Room” and Furstenfeld appeared transformed.
After the show, the band was heard cheering in their dressing room. Furstenfeld said after the opening jitters he settled down and had a blast. “I suddenly realized, ‘this is what I do’ and it all came back like that,” he said, as he walked to his car through a sea of wellwishers. “And I didn’t forget a single lyric!”
Tonight’s show at Stubb’s is sold out, so maybe the secondary ticket market will break even.
- Interview with Justin Furstenfeld: ‘My brain just stopped working’
