FOOLCiRCLE

I was able to go see Keller Williams play at Rams Head Live in Baltimore, MD on Saturday. It turned out to be a really great show. If I can find the setlist online, I’ll post it.

I went down with Mike, the second Keller show I’ve seen with him in about six months. The other show was in Atlantic City, NJ and had horrible sound quality which helped make this show sound even better. Keller’s new CD comes out tomorrow, but fortunetly for us they had it on sale at the show. It is called Dream. The concept behind the CD is that Keller wanted to play with everyone he had every dreamed of playing with including the following plus more; Béla Fleck, Bob Weir, Charlie Hunter, John Scofield, Martin Sexton, Steve Kimock, The String Cheese Incident, and Victor Wooten.

One of the cool things about Rams Head Live is they are “sponsored” for lack of a better term by Fordham Brewing Company. And because of this, the bar at RHL has all of the styles of Fordham beer available including my favorite their Tavern Ale. Fordham claims it to be an American Pale Ale. I always found it to be a cross between an APA and an English Pale Ale. Once I got to try it dry hopped and served out of a firkin, now that was a good beer!

Well, the first set wasn’t just Keller, it was Keller & the Keels, which is Keller Williams, Larry, and Jenny Keel. They recently just released a blue-grass album together called Grass. Some covers I can remember them playing were Tom Petty’s Last Dance with Mary Jane & Breakdown, Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, and a combonation of Beck’s and The Grateful Dead’s Loser. They played some really rockin’ blue-grass that lasted almost an hour and a half, much longer than I expected. Keller than took a set break and came back and did what he does best – make you smile and dance with the grace of his musical skills. The Keels came back out for the encore too. Over all a really great time.

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