Night #2 of 4,
the ‘The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites' show
Photos by: Billie Jo Sheehan
In a day and age of musical surplus, if an album doesn't connect it might not get the same number of spins it would have two-decades ago. As a result, The Rise & Fall… never made an overpowering impression on me and was a record I admired more than loved. That changed at Schubas. This was the one show I wasn't looking forward to, but it turned out to be my favorite as Walker defied my impressions of this record with a pure and illuminating performance. Unlike the previous evening, Walker had his electric guitar plugged in for a large part of the evening, which he made a point of pointing out by saying "Electric guitar meet Chicago", and right from the opening chords of "Hot Girls In Good Moods", he seemed to be in high spirits. As Walker explained to the crowd, he was in a good place when he wrote and recorded the album and it didn't produce his most brooding and contemplative songs, but some of his most muscular.
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