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I went the Isobel Campbell and Eugene Kelly at Southpaw last night and it was packed. The duet sound great together, they sang most of the songs of Ballad of the Broken Seas. They reminded me a lot of Johnny Cash and June Carter. Except Southpaw was less like Folsom Prison and more like somewhere on the Midwestern prairie, where the stars are hung in the sky, a fire is crackling, and a bunch of cowboys and girls sit lonesome in a semicircle around the duo as they sing songs that trot along. However, the music was not all twee country. Have you ever seen a man in a trucker hat and cowboy shirt play a classical waltz on a piano? Now I have. Highlights of the set were "Come Walk With Me" and "Ramblin' Man." In addition to songs off their new album, the band did a few covers. First was "Love Hurts" lead by the slow warble of the dobro, which was in the mumbled words of the guy standing next me, "Dope." For the last song they played a Vaselines' song, which Eugene wrote, "Son of a Gun” and the crowd seemed to like it.









UPDATE
Below is a pic from the show last night when somebody hurled a bra on stage. Isobel picked it up and twirled it around for the rest of the song then threw it back into the audience.