Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Reimagined, night two at the Kay Meek Centre

Note: I felt duty bound, sitting up front, to shoot a couple of videos, but my phone maxed out after two: Joel Plaskett and Shaun Verreault. 

 In reverse order (mostly): 

Selfie with Erika at the end of a marvelous night:

The big bow:

The closing number:

From right... Dawn, Lindi, Shaun... and...?:

Boys club: Joel, Chuck, Steve:

This one has Mercy:

The red boots weren't extroverted enough:

Theresa, I think! (Of Pony Gold):

Erika thinks Steve looks a bit like Jesse Plemons with the 'stache:

Dawn from the other side: 

Backstage with Regina: 

Dawn again!:

Chuck telling the audience to invest in Lucinda Williams records:

Shaun:

The Eisenhauers:

Pony Gold:

Final stop on a record quest, en route to West Van, looking for a Shot of Love: Dale tells me to look up Dylan footage with Spooner Oldham. I tell him to look up Dylan footage with Chalo ("Charlie") Quintana, who lived in Vancouver for a long while...:

 

At Painted Lady, where I get an upgraded Saved (my old one was hole-punched):

Most Slow Train Coming copies out there have ringwear and so forth; this one at Highlife was the best I found. But I got my old seam-split copy signed... I got a few signed for friends:

The second night was, as I suggested in part one, the more polished and perfect; or maybe it's just that our expectations were adjusted; we knew what to expect and how to enjoy it! We ended up with an accidental upgrade, because the couple in F1 and F2 (our actual seat numbers) had been displaced from F5 and F6 by other people and the show was just starting, so a major shuffle was out of the question. "It's okay, we can just sit down here" (gestures at A1 and A2). I guess no one had reserved them! So: front row seats, a backstage chat with Regina, and a very happy wife. You can see her in the bottom corner while Dawn is doing "Metal Firecracker." She loved it! (And so did I).

Regina was a wonderful interview, but I'm going to hold on to that for now, to see what happens with the folk fest...! Meantime, mission accomplished: