Untolerable Bohemian played tonight at Cat's Art MusikCircus and it was an excellent set. A musician can play a set and it will be good, you accomplish what you set out to do, and you walk away feeling good. But sometimes you have an ON night when just everything you touch works. The strings stay in tune, things don't break, everything goes right ... and that's how it was for Bo tonight.
Without going too deep into it, Bo has been having some trouble deciding whether he wants to do originals, covers, mix it up, how should it go. There was no indecision in the set tonight as he kept it popping the whole time, flowing smoothly from one song to the next, and playing it all pro from start to finish.
My opinion is a grain of salt but still I say I so much hear Bo's identity in his originals and that's a difficult thing to achieve as millions of people make music but few can make a sound that's immediately recognizable. Bo's style is unique and, after hearing him once, you'll know him the moment he starts every time you go back.
Whether cover songs belong in Bo's set is not for me to say but I do know Bo's own work is plenty strong enough to stand alone. Bo's technique applies equally well to cover songs but, again my grain of salt, I believe his originals are much better than the covers. The lyrics are witty and unusual and his accompaniment is pretty and clean. Even though it was entirely acoustic, I still loved it and the beauty part of that is he can go electric any time he feels like it and his original work with that is exceptional as well.
At one point I was thinking here's the Portuguese Bob Marley and that's pushing it as he'll need to push out his song list some more to pick up the title but he's well on the way with his originals. There was very much of a rasta vibe to it and that is definitely a compliment.
Congratulations on a great set and it's a great happiness to hear the confidence that went with it.
Without going too deep into it, Bo has been having some trouble deciding whether he wants to do originals, covers, mix it up, how should it go. There was no indecision in the set tonight as he kept it popping the whole time, flowing smoothly from one song to the next, and playing it all pro from start to finish.
My opinion is a grain of salt but still I say I so much hear Bo's identity in his originals and that's a difficult thing to achieve as millions of people make music but few can make a sound that's immediately recognizable. Bo's style is unique and, after hearing him once, you'll know him the moment he starts every time you go back.
Whether cover songs belong in Bo's set is not for me to say but I do know Bo's own work is plenty strong enough to stand alone. Bo's technique applies equally well to cover songs but, again my grain of salt, I believe his originals are much better than the covers. The lyrics are witty and unusual and his accompaniment is pretty and clean. Even though it was entirely acoustic, I still loved it and the beauty part of that is he can go electric any time he feels like it and his original work with that is exceptional as well.
At one point I was thinking here's the Portuguese Bob Marley and that's pushing it as he'll need to push out his song list some more to pick up the title but he's well on the way with his originals. There was very much of a rasta vibe to it and that is definitely a compliment.
Congratulations on a great set and it's a great happiness to hear the confidence that went with it.
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