It turned out that Dulli & Lanegan were doing their show in Seattle the same weekend I was there visiting Susan. She got tickets and we looked forward to the show. I know that Dulli often performed without a set-list back in the day and hoped that that carried over until now. The Showbox is a nice place, considerably larger than the Troubadour (to accommodate Dulli & Lanegan's considerably larger fan-base in Seattle); apparently it's the hip place that cool, mid-level bands play in the city, similar to L.A.'s El Rey or the Palace back in the day. Susan had been there frequently. Dulli & Langean played pretty much the same set as the previous show, which was somewhat unfortunate to me -- still a great show but I had already seen it and I was disappointed by the lack of spontaneity. But at least Lanegan stayed on stage even when he wasn't singing and Dulli didn't let his ego go to his head. And still a great night out with a friend and visiting a venue in another city.
We got there early enough to see Happy Chichester again but the significant opener was Shawn Smith, formerly of Brad and Satchel, and he didn't play any song I knew but the man's voice, a beautiful croon set usually in a falsetto that could run rings around Chris Martin, was a revelation. I could have listened to him blabber nonsense all night, as long as he was singing it with that voice. I don't know why he doesn't get out of Seattle more often but the fact that he never went big with a band is a crime. It's not too late now.
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