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Martin Barre and Band @ Rockhall Music Hall, 12/19/2015

Martin Barre and Band @ Rockhall Music Hall, 12/19/2015

As much hitting is us with the heavy yet commercial title track from his latest album, Barre ran through lots of blues (interestingly enough, switching from electric guitar to mandolin-an instrument Barre manned often through the many pastoral passages of Tull music-during the most blues tune of the night, “Crossroads”) and lots of Tull. As Mr. Barre told this second-show-of-the-night crowd, he was changing things up from the first set and I watched as he called out tunes to the band and they rolled through “Smoke Stack Lightening” and his sly cover of “Eleanor Rigby” as well as Tull classics like a very heavy “Sweet Dreams,” his special send-up of “Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of A New Day”) “Minstrel In The Gallery early on and my personal favorite of the night, Barre’s 8-minute read of the middle of the Tull “concept” piece “Thick As A Brick.”Without Ian Anderson’s leading flute through this stuff I really came to appreciate Barre’s guitar parts in these classic tunes…as well delighting in him taking on those lead flute parts.

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