What's better than spending an afternoon outdoors enjoying some great music with good friends? Not much, as far as I'm concerned. Yesterday The Stu Olsen Band, The Smokey Lonesome and Luna Sea each delivered strong sets at Music Garden L.A. in Highland Park. Here are some photos from the show:
Luna Sea (Darlene Luna) was up first, backed by Bob Pritchard on drums. The two delivered some really nice original material, along with a couple of covers. I especially enjoyed "I Thought You Were The One" and "All Alone."
The Smokey Lonesome was up next. These guys always deliver the goods, and yesterday's set was particularly delicious. It included great versions of "Mojave," "Cannabis" and "Desert Run," along along with some wonderful covers, including "White Freightliner Blues," "Silver Threads And Golden Needles" and "Your Cheatin' Heart."
Closing out the afternoon was The Stu Olsen Band. The band, by the way, was Tranquilina, and this time they backed him for the entire set, which was fantastic. They opened with "Bright Burning Street," his song about Townes Van Zandt. Sophia Delgado played lap steel on that one and the next two songs, then switched to electric guitar for the rest of the set. "This is where we turn into a punk band," Stu said before the switch to guitar. Other highlights included excellent renditions of "It Ain't Medicine" and "Valkerie."
That was the end of the scheduled performers, but then James and Sophia did a brief set of Gram Parsons songs, including "$1000 Dollar Wedding," "Return Of The Grievous Angel" and "A Song For You." A special treat to wrap things up.
Music Garden L.A. is located at 5133 York Blvd. in Los Angeles, California.
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