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DESCRIPTION:\nAsk Al Stewart to sum up where he is now\, musically speaking
 \, and you&rsquo\;re likely to wind up two steps behind where you started\
 ; this is by no means an unusual circumstance in conversation with Al\, ke
 enly aware as he is that making a leap forward often entails taking a step
  backward. Sometimes it&rsquo\;s into the library stacks where the late hi
 storian Ms. Tuchman dug for material. Sometimes it&rsquo\;s into the recor
 d stacks where the late rocker Mr. Cochran made his mark as a teenager sin
 ging his &ldquo\;Summertime Blues&rdquo\; so many summertime&rsquo\;s ago.
 \nIn many ways\, the summertime of Stewart&rsquo\;s 2009 much more resembl
 ed his summer of 1969 than it did the summer of 1979\, when his multi-mill
 ion-selling &ldquo\;Year of the Cat&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;Time Passages&rdqu
 o\; were staples of FM radio\, and he was touring with saxes\, synths\, si
 ngers\, and all the accoutrements pop stardom brings. &ldquo\;I don&rsquo\
 ;t think I ever knew how to be in front of a band\,&rdquo\; says Al\, a li
 ttle modestly. &ldquo\;I always felt I was loitering there while they were
  doing all the work.&rdquo\;\n\nWith the release of Uncorked\, Al and musi
 cal partner Dave Nachmanoff take a trip through Stewart&rsquo\;s musical b
 ack pages\, both in terms of the musical catalogue (they did have nearly 2
 0 albums&rsquo\; worth of songs to pick from)\, and in terms of performanc
 e style. After all\, Al made his bones in the massively fertile folk scene
  that was London in the late &rsquo\;60s\, and he numbers among his contem
 poraries the likes of guitar wizards Bert Jansch and John Renbourn\, singe
 r-songwriters Roy (&ldquo\;Hats Off To&rdquo\;) Harper and Richard Thompso
 n\, and a former flatmate named Paul Simon\, who went on to some celebrity
  upon returning to America.\nRecorded live during a springtime East Coast 
 swing\, Uncorked is the first live acoustic disc Al&rsquo\;s done since 19
 92&rsquo\;s Rhymes In Rooms\, and both he and Nachmanoff made a conscious 
 decision not to replicate any of the tracks from that disc\, even if it me
 ant leaving off such standards as &ldquo\;On the Border&rdquo\; and the tw
 o aforementioned Top 40 hits. &ldquo\;Because I&rsquo\;ve learned all of A
 l&rsquo\;s songs\, we had an opportunity to revisit some of the tunes that
  hadn&rsquo\;t been featured in more recent years\,&rdquo\; says Nachmanof
 f. &ldquo\;I think at this point\, we can actually do three or four full s
 hows and never play the same songs twice. And while Al usually comes in to
  a gig with a set list in mind\, often times\, we&rsquo\;ll just throw it 
 out and go with the flow.&rdquo\;\n\nAs a consequence\, it sounds like the
  duo isn&rsquo\;t merely playing well (fact is\, Al&rsquo\;s guitar work i
 s actually even better now than it was back in the day\, thanks to the aco
 ustic touring configuration that brings his musical contributions more to 
 the fore)\, it sounds like they&rsquo\;re having fun. And if the title tra
 cks from albums like Last Days of the Century and Bedsitter Images don&rsq
 uo\;t immediately conjure images of major-label milestones\, that&rsquo\;s
  just fine with Al. &ldquo\;It&rsquo\;s much more enjoyable for me to hear
  myself and for the audience to hear the words\,&rdquo\; says Stewart. &ld
 quo\;And the audience seems to agree. The way I look at it\, if I can stil
 l get everybody on their hind legs at the end of a show cheering\, then I&
 rsquo\;ve won.&rdquo\;\nAl Stewart's website
DTSTART:20121212T200000
DTEND:20121212T220000
DURATION:PT3H
LOCATION:San Francisco
SUMMARY:An Acoustic Evening with AL STEWART
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