JOnes beach set list

[Amlyn]

I'm too exhausted to post much, but just few tidbits till someone puts up a great review.

She came out in a black dress, or possibly 2 pieces...shorter skirt...black top had semi see through sleeves if i recall. She had on some kind of bracelet or cuff on the sleeves. She looked fab. I was about half way back cause i got a seat last second, but I'm sure those up close can give a much better description.

She didn't do the red dress at all. Had the appropriate GDW and SB shawls, in fact she commented that the SB shawl was the original one from back in the day. I'll be honest, i don't know from my vantage point if she changed totally for Rhiannon, but whatever she came out in was on until Edge where she wore white.

Few other things I remember:

Some of you may know that NYC was around 100 degrees today. But by showtime and given the location of the venue the weather was great. Windy though. When you see video you'll see there were times were Stevie's hair was covering her face. She made the best of it. Nowhere near the Sturgis show, but it was constant wind and at one point she's like...ok wind, i'm done with you. I enjoyed watching everything sway and shimmy from the wind though. It just made it seem less staged if that makes any sense.

She was hysterical this evening. She kept cracking little jokes and making just funny comments. I can't explain it exactly, but she seemed more spontaneous than I recall in awhile. She even said she just watched rehearsals last week cause she lost her voice and well, she's winging it. She just seemed to go with the flow moreso than I've seen her previously.

When introducing Annabel Lee, she gave her schtick about Poe, and blah blah, then she said "but he was married...not that it has every stopped me before..." That got a good rousing response. She was just so matter of fact about it.

What else....Edge was awesome....given my seat, not a prayer for the edge walk, BUT the verse and wail that were missing last year are BACK!! I was ecstatic when I heard her go there.

She dedicated Landslide to Rebecca and Liz, the former being I assume her friend for many years and I assume the latter being Rosenberg. I noticed a pic of her mom stayed up at the end for awhile. And I thought she was going to do something for her mom there, but she didn't then.

But after Love Is. She just stood at the microphone and guys...she pretty much lost it. It was heartbreaking...just started to tear and explain how the first half of this year has been so hard. She didn't say why, but we knew. And she thanked us and said that after tonight, and having this performance, she now knows that she will be ok. Totally paraphrasing there, and I'm sure the ledgies up close will give much better specifics, but it definitely had the feel of the Woodstock HAEWAFY ending.

Overall, she was amazing and I think she enjoyed being there as much or more as we enjoyed having her there.