We could have tested if we could get multiple tickets at a time from DoMoreLA, but however it was, when tickets for Lissie came up we grabbed them and we got them. That was a lot of shows for October (though we only went together to two, that’s more than we sometimes get out for the rest of the year). It was also a night we had Rae over, so that could have been tricky, but we just went on to a certain ticket website and got her a ticket (which, even if it wasn’t cheap, the total cost of the tickets would have been minimal). We’ve already seen Lissie a couple times, and she was even the only one we watched do a livestream concert during lock-down, and while I was probably good, Carla could see her any number of times. The Teragram is also an easy drive, even on a Friday night, and we could park across the street (for $20, but that’s better than driving around the block too much looking for a space). We got there with an hour to kill even before opener Trash Day (not Cat Clyde like an ad had said, though both of those could be wrong as easily as they could be right), so we had time to take in some of the DTLA nightlife and one of Rae’s early club shows. For that it wasn’t much to speak of, but it could be a low-stakes night out and an often-mellow folk-rock show. And Lissie is always talented and charming enough. If nothing else she has a good voice and some good songs. Though this show, while touring on Carving Canyons, was half-capacity, if that, so it was easy to get around and as close as we wanted to the stage, but it doesn’t give you much hope that this artist you like may be able to keep going for you. Everyone might have been there for “When I’m Alone,” which would be understandable, though that wasn’t enough of a hit to bring out people to a show they could leave early for. It also took me to this show to realize what a Fleetwood Mac vibe she has (as any flower-child who was familiar with the ‘70s would be; and if her sound didn’t sell it, she could have done it all with the boho dress that looked comfortable enough that you could wish to be that kind of rock star), maybe even without the guitarist riding some Buckingham riffs. FM were trending at the time anyway so it would have fit, but it’s a shame she couldn’t use that to hype herself more, and it became just an element for those already in the know. Even an enthusiastic cover could have taken her far, but she seemed to avoid those (except for “Pursuit Of Happiness” or what she played in her livestream). Rae might not have been moved enough to become a fan (she’d get obsessed with FM later but she generally stuck to them (and even when there are similarities, Lissie herself has less drama)), but she, and we, enjoyed being out, catching some mellow vibes at the small-venue California-rock show in California.
"Unravel"
"Sleepwalking"
"Flowers"
"Best Days"
"Don't You Give Up on Me" (with snippet of “Running Up That Hill”)
"Oh Mississippi"
"Hero"
"Sad"
"Further Away (Romance Police)"
"Lonesome Wine"
"Chasing the Sun"
"In Sleep"
"Carving Canyons"
"When I'm Alone"
"Night Moves"
"Everywhere I Go"
"Little Lovin'"
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