Jena's Atlanta GA LiMBO Recap
Just got home from Smith's after seeing LMBO, Taylor, Wynn Christian and other members of Spoonful James who used to back Taylor at different points in everyone's life. (Think Taylor's first 2 CD's and probably on a lot of the live recorded music)Amazing night. WorkPlay was nothing, NOTHING next to this. Let me make this clear...Workplay was to tonight at Smith's as the AI cheesefest is to Workplay.
Tonight was really Taylor's night and he was prepared for it and had it planned out. He had his friends in the house, he had his old band buddies on stage with him, he had LMBO on stage, but this wasn't a LMBO show. They did one short set and that was it. The other two sets were Taylor and a stage full of his best friends and musicians that he has grown and matured with.
In a room that only holds about 250 people and that was not full, with it's own bar and bathrooms, it was like being at someones house watching the family band jam.
We got some of the usual music, we got tunes we had never heard him sing before. We got Taylor and Wynn singing Wynn Christian originals, we got Taylor and Wynn singing some covers that God please, let somebody have video of. Songs we have never heard Taylor sing.
Finally, the band left the stage. All but Brian and Taylor. Taylor got a chair and lowered his mic. He had his harmonica in his hand. I didn't know what to expect. Was he going to tell a story? Was he going to play acoustic guitar? The next thing I know Pam leans over and says "That's Georgia". Sure enough, the song thousands had been begging for ALL YEAR LONG was being sung, just for us, a quiet room of about 100 people (by this time it was 2:15 and a lot of people had left).
It wasn't being sung, it was being caressed, and loved and given to us as a special gift. It was so much better than the version on the cd. I know you are wondering how that is possible, but it's true. Just Brian playing a very understated keyboard, Taylor playing a little harp, but mostly that voice. That voice that caught us back in January.
The last thing I saw tonight was a guy on a stage. Just a guy, sitting in a chair, rocking back and forth, harmonica in his hand, with almost unnoticeable piano playing in the background. He was lost in his own world singing Georgia...Georgia...just as if he were singing it for each of us alone.
Wish y'all could have been there.