2006-11-17 Point Theatre (The), Dublin, Ireland

Scheduled: 20:00 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

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Patti Scialfa returns to the stage for the first time since Verona on October 5. "Devils & Dust" makes its final appearance of the tour. First ever performances in Ireland of "Growin' Up", "Blinded By The Light", "This Little Light Of Mine", and "American Land". Horn section is Baron-Manion-Ramm-Gayton.

Intro to “Growin´ Up”
´´…Here´s a song from one of my folk music albums….´´

Intro to “Devils&Dust”
´´Alright, well, we, uh….we teetered back slightly from the brink of insanity in the States a week ago…but it was close…it was so close…I´ve lived through a few different presidents but I don´t think I´ve ever seen anything like this guy (crowd cheers) it was, uh….it was Sinclair Lewis who wrote a book called ´It Could Happen Here´….not sure it didn´t but, uh, the great Abraham Lincoln-quote: ´You can fool some people all of the time, all the people some of the time but you can´t fool all the people all of the time´….but, uh, he should´ve added that if you fool enough of the people enough of the time (drowned out by applause)…. terrible….terrible….terrible tragic mistakes, terrible tragic mistakes so….´´

Intro to “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?”
´´This is for the mothercity of American music….New Orleans….´´

Intro to “Jacob´s Ladder”
´´Alright, it´s time for me to ask that age-old rock´n´roll question….that I´ve come thousands of miles to find out the answer to….I´ve asked it before….I´ll ask it again….but right now what I wanna know is….are you alright?….´´

Intro to “Long Time Comin”
´´Ok….I don´t know where they are but they´re here somewhere….actually they´re out at the club I´m sure….my kids I´m talking about….they´re into their third pint of Guinness….I might not be kidding, I don´t know where they are….God bless ´em (chuckles) where are my young ones? (crowd applauds)(?) real long time, you can scratch your way out….´´

Intro to “When The Saints Go Marching In”
´´….You got the….you gotta get the Irish blood running there….(?)….alright….alright, this is, uh….this is kind of the song that explains what our whole little experiment´s been about up here and I wanna send this one out to you thanking you for, this was the first place we played in Europe….you really set us off on a nice start, we´ve had a lovely adventure with all this music and all these wonderful musicians…..(?)….this has been a learning experience and a real treat and I wanna thank you for, uh, taking a chance, taking a chance on us with all this stuff, we appreciate that a lot….so, uh….uh….that said, I guess I´ll send this one out to you….´´

Intro to “This Little Light Of Mine”
´´We want you to rise from your seats now, please, and join us….we wanna send you home with a little love in your heart, a little light in your soul….´´

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}

Peter Hade

It's 8.20 and people are starting to get a little restless. Suddenly, the stage is teeming with musicians, and we're off. The opening chords are a little unfamiliar, until we hear "Well they blew up the chicken man…". Rollicking, storming versions of "John Henry" and "Old Dan Tucker" really set the mood. As with "Atlantic City", some more Springsteen standards get the Seeger Sessions treatment, notably "Growin'Up" and "If I Should Fall Behind". It's wrong I know, but I'm thinking "sing one of yours Bruce, and sing it straight!". And then he does. "Devils & Dust", and later, a beautiful version of "My City of Ruins" were pure Bruce. The main show finished with "Pay Me My Money Down", although we didn't know it at the time. The fact that we were being entertained by a lone tuba player while Bruce slept on a piano stage left, should maybe have given the game away. For the encores, "Blinded by the Light" and "You can look…" were performed in their Big Band versions. I thought "Oh when the saints…" would be a brassy, happy-clapping "Get your Irish arses off your Irish seats!", singalong riot. Instead, it was stripped down to it's gospel roots, with various band members sharing the vocals. Finally, what better way to end the night than with the very Irish influenced "American Land", as performed by the Bruce Springsteen Ceili Band. Brilliant. In 2hrs 40mins, with hardly a break, we'd been treated to most of the musical styles that have influenced American music. A masterclass from a master. What a band! What a sound! What a show! What a man! Thanks Bruce.

Rowcairns

After arriving to a cold Dublin joining the pit queue at 13:00 it was disappointing to find there was no pit! Another great show opening with Atlantic City. Whether it was due to the cameras that filmed all three nights Bruce looked a bit subdued early on. Patti was back as well! Great performance again from the entire band-vocalists in particular. Bruce did not leave the stage for the encore but pretended to be asleep stage right before pulling the lone Tuba player off. Surprisingly cold feel to The Point and I had expected a better atmosphere. American Land went down a treat however to end the show

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