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This was my first house concert \u2013 those hosting the show were more than gracious to admit strangers like me.\u00a0 With this being the third night on this short Fall tour, it seemed so fitting that the The Choir had thus far played in a church, a bar, and now somebody\u2019s backyard.<\/p>\n
This concert was the full lineup: Derri Daugherty, Steve Hindalong, Tim Chandler and Dan Michaels playing sax and lyricon (who we were lucky enough to have because he was only able to play part of the tour).\u00a0 The band occupied the back patio as a stage but that didn\u2019t deter them from putting together a full electric two-hour set opening with the first four songs from the 1988 release Chase the Kangaroo<\/em>. \u00a0After skipping ahead to the song \u201cChase the Kangaroo,\u201d the guys broke off from their usual presentation of that entire album to spend more time on songs from their new release The Loudest Sound Ever Heard<\/em>.<\/p>\n One thing that was so evident was how timeless The Choir\u2019s musical library is.\u00a0 While songs like \u201cConsider,\u201d \u201cSad Face,\u201d and \u201cCircle Slide\u201d were true to their original recordings, they didn\u2019t sound at all like they were 25 years old. The transition from those songs to more recent releases like \u201cTaking the Universe In,\u201d \u201cStrange Girl,\u201d and \u201cBurning Like the Midnight Sun\u201d was seamless.<\/p>\n A fair portion of the audience seemed to be getting their first exposure to The Choir, yet the songs seemed to connect well enough that the two hour set really wasn\u2019t long enough.\u00a0\u00a0 I still had my list of personal favorites that I would have liked to hear but I know that when you\u2019ve been cranking out great music for nearly thirty years there is going to be some picking and choosing when it comes to making up a set list.<\/p>\n One of the best parts of a house show is the opportunity to visit with the band following the concert. The guys were more than happy to hang out and meet new friends and reminisce with old fans.<\/p>\n The Choir is continuing to tour as they have dates currently scheduled through November.\u00a0 Also, their 2012 release The Loudest Sound Ever Heard<\/em> is currently available at their website www.thechoir.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was my first house concert \u2013 those hosting the show were more than gracious to admit strangers like me.\u00a0 With this being the third night on this short Fall tour, it seemed so fitting that the The Choir had … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[304,61],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january-2013","category-live-report","tag-the-choir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}