Stuart Adamson & Marcus Hummon
Caffe Milano · Nashville, TN · January 2, 1999

Concert Review		by Kimberly Hansing
		(As posted to the Big Country Mailing List): Well, Billy and I went to the Blue Heeler show last night, and for the first time they were actually introduced as Blue Heeler. Yay! Finally a name to hold onto. Melanie said that they haven't actually recorded *anything* yet that could be bought even out of a carton at the shows, so that sucks. But soon, she hopes (and we do too!) The set list was, I think, same as the other shows: Old Country Country Shattered Cross Toujours Jamais Private Battlefield Simple Man Stand Up My Only Crime (this may have been new, I don't remember it) Life is a Church Too Many Ghosts Blue Rose The Travelers** (Missed the title of this one, one of Stuart's obviously) Supernatural First Encore: A new song they didn't name that was about "hanging out in the woods with a fly rod." This seemed to us to be very much an escape from the world and go fishing kind of thing. Second Encore: The mellow IABC that we love so much... :-) They said that they were not playing it recently, but since it was such an intimate little crowd... and it was a small group. ** The Travelers. Even though people who have heard the BC song The Travelers *insist* that this song is that song, Stuart still announces it as untitled. Billy thinks he has lengthened and changed it musically a bit from the BC version. Marcus kept teasing Stuart about it calling it "The Great Haggis Disaster" and "The Wreck of the Haggis." I remembered to write down the names of their group, too, finally... but excuse the spelling because I don't know how to spell any of their names. They have a fiddler (violinist for non Southerners *g*) named Andrea Zahn, a bongo player named John Gardener, a fretless bass player named Mark Prentiss and a guy who plays mandolin, concertina, two or three different kinds of pipe/penny whistle and bodran named John Mock. I don't know about the others, but John Mock is in a local Celtic band called Isla (pronounced EYE-lah) that is very good. And of course Stuart and Marcus to round out the group. For those interested, Stuart and Marcus were wearing shiny suits with black T-shirts. Stuart's suit was (what else) black with what looked like a white stripe. Billy says pinstripe, but that doesn't really do the design justice, it was more of a dotted-line pinstripe. *g* Marcus's was that funny kind of taupish olive color that Italian suitmakers like. Marcus wore cowboy boots. Stuart wore a big clunky black loafer with a matte silver buckle on the front.