Live Review: Travis Tritt, Fairgrounds Arena, Watertown, NY, June 30, 2007
The summer's first Redneck Roadtrip took place this past weekend as good buddy the Loadstone and I drove a couple of hours south from Ottawa to the North Country, i.e., Watertown, New York and surrounding environs, for a charity benefit concert put on by Nashville outlaw Travis Tritt at that city's Fairgrounds Arena for the Disabled Person's Action Organization.
Tritt's 2 1/2 hour long set, delivered in front of about 2,000 honky-tonkers lubed up by the $3 drafts on sale, was chock full of his own CMT staples like "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde", "Love of a Woman" and "Great Day to Be Alive" alongside older tracks like "Help Me Hold On", "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" and "Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" with a few covers tossed in for good measure, including "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Sweet Home Alabama", "Burnin' Love" and "Fulsom Prison Blues" (presumably for all the wannabes in the audience, of which thankfully there weren't many, given that this was a Travis Tritt concert).
Of particular note were "I See Me", an ode to fatherhood which Tritt presaged with the classic Heathcliff Huxtable observation - "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it" - and a track he did with John Mellencamp a few years back titled "What Say You".
As expected, this was a top-drawer, workmanlike effort from a veteran who has built a solid career by delivering unpretentious music to the folks.
Overall rating: 9/10
Tritt's 2 1/2 hour long set, delivered in front of about 2,000 honky-tonkers lubed up by the $3 drafts on sale, was chock full of his own CMT staples like "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde", "Love of a Woman" and "Great Day to Be Alive" alongside older tracks like "Help Me Hold On", "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" and "Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" with a few covers tossed in for good measure, including "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Sweet Home Alabama", "Burnin' Love" and "Fulsom Prison Blues" (presumably for all the wannabes in the audience, of which thankfully there weren't many, given that this was a Travis Tritt concert).
Of particular note were "I See Me", an ode to fatherhood which Tritt presaged with the classic Heathcliff Huxtable observation - "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it" - and a track he did with John Mellencamp a few years back titled "What Say You".
As expected, this was a top-drawer, workmanlike effort from a veteran who has built a solid career by delivering unpretentious music to the folks.
Overall rating: 9/10
posted by Road Hammer @ 10:30 AM
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I saw Tritt with David (and David Sr.) in Barrie a couple of years ago. Like Brad Paisley, I was going on David's advice and I was glad I did. Great show, including an awesome cover of Copper Head Road.
He had no opener and played for what seemed like forever.
I also forgot to mention that he played "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay".
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