The String Cheese Incident has released pro-shot footage of “Blackberry Blossom” from the band’s March 4th, 2017 concert at The Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO.
Last Friday, SCI aired the 3/4/17 concert in its entirety as part of its weekly Friday Night Cheese live stream series, which has been going strong since the onset of the global pandemic back in March. Tune in this Friday for a full broadcast of the group’s guest-filled August 1st, 2010 performance at Horning’s Hideout in North Plains, OR.
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This live cut gets going immediately thanks to the mandolin work of Michael Kang. For the first couple minutes, this acoustic jam sounds like it could even go into the Grateful Dead‘s “Friend of the Devil”, before Kyle Hollingsworth takes over and keys and steers the song in a different direction. As Kang goes to pick up his fiddle, the descending progression of “Friend of the Devil” pops up once again before the entire rhythm is broken down by Michael Travis on a simplified drum kit. That’s when things get weird.
As the whole jam slows to a crawl, Kang adds to the spaciness of it all with his sparse fiddle runs that bounce across the room. As Hollingsworth takes hold of the vehicle, the beat begins to rise as the rest of the band gets moving. Slowly but surely, the tempo begins to build back up as the song is once again identifiable as the standard fiddle tune dating back to Celtic roots music.
Watch The String Cheese Incident’s performance of “Blackberry Blossom” at The Fox Theatre on March 4th, 2017.
The String Cheese Incident – “Blackberry Blossom” – Fox Theatre – 3/4/17
[Video: The String Cheese Incident]