Grousing The Aisles: Solo Acoustic Brock

Brock Butler 07/14/2010 SBD Matrix [MP3, FLAC, STREAM]

It’s a big deal around the ScottyB household when new recordings of Brock Butler’s solo gigs go up on the Live Music Archive, especially when they are from lengthy, three-set gigs in which the Perpetual Groove front man performs a diverse mix of covers with a few of his best originals thrown in for good measure. Back on July 14th Brock broke out his acoustic and loop machine for a last-minute show at the Pawley’s Island Tavern in Pawley’s Island, SC and “Team Dirty South” captured all the action for a high-quality matrix recording that they’ve shared via the LMA.

Brock starts off with a tender as fuck version of Paul Simon’s Slip, Sliding Away and continues with a joyous cover of Jessica by the Allman Brothers in which he plays double leads with himself thanks to his looping machine. Speaking of the loops – which are an integral part of Butler’s acoustic gigs – Brock gives a pretty damn cool demonstration of the machine after covering Norwegian Wood.

Over three sets The Rev treats what seems like an intimate crowd to rousing versions of Steely Dan’s Haitian Divorce, Tom Petty’s Don’t Come Around Here No More and Lionel Richie’s All Night Long. There’s also gorgeous covers of Ooh Child by the Five Stairsteps, Long May You Run by Neil Young and Brock’s signature version of Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place) by the Talking Heads. Yet the top moments of this recording are the originals, namely The Weather and The Wait and what could be my all-time favorite song – It Starts Where It Ends. Don’t sleep on this one folks, if you’re not familiar with Brock’s solo shows this recording is a great place to start.

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  1. Oooh, thanks for the heads up on this one Scotty! I’m one of those “not familiar,” so I’m pumped to see this up. I have a recording from Jam Cruise ’07 (I think) playing “To Go Home,” but I haven’t given any listening to full solo shows.

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