Carbon Leaf
2007-02-09
Denver, CO
Bluebird Theater
A great show at the Bluebird: Toby Lightman and Carbon Leaf!
I have to say that I was particularly impressed by opener Toby Lightman. After seeing three openers at Everclear on Wednesday night – none of whom left an impression on me – Toby’s set motivated us to immediately head to the lobby to buy her album. Comparisons: a guitar playing Nora Jones? Soulful voice, good guitar work, and good lyrics. A nice opener for Carbon Leaf.
As usual – Carbon Leaf puts on a great set, even better than when we saw them in September! 
The band always seems to have fun playing together – and the crowd was singing along to almost every song, much more than just the main track of the new album (which I guess was all people knew in September!) They did a great cover of the Black Crowes’ She Talks to Angels where they brought Toby Lightman on stage to sing with Barry… A great tune for both of their voices!
Carbon Leaf came to the front of the stage to do an “unplugged” song – without mics…
Took the audience a good 5 mins to figure out what was going on, and a “Shut Up!” from Barry – before they figured out that the band still wanted to play!
Funny twist: both the lead singer & the drummer were in a button down shirt TIE for the entire set & encore. Not sure when they ditched the jeans & t-shirt (which everyone else was in)... Good to tease them about I guess.. “Dress up to go to work?”...
Setlist:
Changeless
Comfort
What About Everything?
One Prairie Outpost
Under the Wire
I’m On Fire #
Love Loss Hope Repeat
Bron-y-aur Stomp $ > She Talks To Angels % > Bron-y-aur Stomp $
Life Less Ordinary
Royal One
Block Of Wood
Desperation Song
Raise The Roof
Texas Stars
This Is My Song
Let Your Troubles Roll By
Encore
Learn to Fly ^
The War Was in Color
The Boxer
- Bruce Springsteen cover
$ Led Zeppelin cover
% Black Crowes cover with Toby Lightman
^ “Unplugged”, guys on acoustic guitars and Barry & Terry un-mic’ed.Download a copy of my recording from Archive.org.
