The Ark - Ann Arbor, MI - October 17, 2008

[AndaleOrbea]

From your Midwest correspondent:

Beautiful day here in Ann Arbor. Only time to post the set list because of a 8+ hour drive to Marquette, MI for tonight's show:

Setlist:

1. Hurricane Angel
2. Once Upon a Summertime
3. Maria's Beautiful Mess
4. Alice's Champagne Palace
5. Jukebox On My Grave
then a brief tribute to ABBA - take a chance on me, and I mean brief
6. Anna Lee
7. Waking Up to Me
8. 3,000 Miles
9. Road Trip
10. Million Chameleon March
with a brief but longer-than-ABBA version of who he's voting for
11. It's Wherever You Are (New Song)
INTERMISSION
12. If I Could Catch the Rain
13. The World Ain't Slowin Down
14. Angel In Manhattan!!!!!!! (yea!)
15. Speed of Trees (yea!)
16. Blacktop Train (acoustic)
17. Calendar Man
18. Walking After Midnight/Change
19. Rollaway Bed
20. Did Galileo Pray? (yea!)
Encore - Home

In other news, Ellis' friend Tarec, from Ann Arbor got engaged! Congrats to them!

Reporting live from Ann Arbor, this is
Dean [and Elaine]

[Richard + Jela]

Thanks for the report - another nice long show, you lucky people!

An 8 hr drive........it takes us less time than that to fly from London to Boston....have a safe drive and look forward to reading about the next show too.

Jela

[Richard + Jela]

A couple of videos have been posted on You Tube from this concert -

Did Galileo Pray?

World Ain't Slowin' Down

Enjoy!

Jela

[jimvan]

Hey thanks....those are my clips.

Speaking of that show at the Ark, didn't he also play Rose Tattoo somewhere in there?

at any rate...now that the advance release of The Day After Everything Has Changed is out...I am now remembering the many tracks from this album that he did play at that show over a year ago.

Annalee
Hurricane Angel
Once Upon a Summertime
Waking up Next to Me....
others?

and how great they are now sounding and sounded then. Several plays through, this is already staking up IMO as his best effort yet. I love the full band on many tracks.

[AndaleOrbea]

This posting is for the 2008 show.

If you want to see the set list for 2009, Ellis played:
1. Hurricane Angel
2. Rose Tattoo
3. Lights of Vegas
4. Maria's Beautiful Mess
5. Jukebox On My Grave
6. Annalee
7. The World Ain't Slowin' Down
8. Home
9. Take All the Sky You Need
10. Alice's Champagne Palace
Encores w/Ari Hest:
I'm On Fire
Let It Be
I Can't Make You Love Me

Cheers,
db