{"id":3541,"date":"2012-06-05T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2012-06-05T22:41:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:41:43","slug":"on-seeing-pierre-bensusan-again-in-spokane-on-6-3-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/06\/05\/on-seeing-pierre-bensusan-again-in-spokane-on-6-3-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"On seeing Pierre Bensusan again in Spokane on 6-3-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday I got to hear Pierre Bensusan play and Lindaman’s<\/a> in Spokane. The food was wonderful. The Old Fashioned put others to shame. Pierre played fantastically. I overheard his roadie telling someone that this was the best performance of the tour so far. It was a really small joint holding only about fifty folks so nobody was far from the action. Husband-wife guitar-vocal duo Sidhe<\/a> opened with some really great tunes as well. A good friend of mine came with so the whole event doubled as an engaging road trip as well.<\/p>\n

This time, I didn’t care about the guitar technique as much as it’s been years now since I’ve treated the instrument with any discipline. Instead, I thought a lot about growing older, romance and love songs – wondering if the old ones are maybe the best already – so just sing those!<\/p>\n

Early on, Pierre took a shot at critics of his style and guitar tuning:<\/p>\n

“The first guy who accidentally tuned his guitar to DADGAD invented ‘New Age’! – Where the guitar plays all by itself. You can even go to the beach and it’s still there playing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I took my notebook and ended up hacking some poems together during the show. I guess I’ll put them in the next post.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, can “weariness” be communicated through a composition? Yes.<\/p>\n