Quick jaunt back to the beginning of the year.

Sara Bareilles came to Dallas to (ONLY) play an in-store at Good Records, to promote her record, and support independent records stores. Both excellent reasons to play the best record store in town.

It was a fairly entertaining show - completely packed (hadn't seen the likes of that since Kevin Barnes!) with tonnes of kids jammed into the front row swooning over Sara. I'm fairly certain that the week she played this show was the week that she was the number one download on iTunes and all over VH1 and the radio for Love Song. Since I never listen to the radio I didn't actually know that til I got to the show. The good news is that I check out the Good Records website every week for upcoming shows and check out all the artists MySpace pages, so I know when to show up for something great.

Sara played a great little show - just her and an electric piano playing highlights from her record, Little Voice. Fairly soulful stuff intermixed with stories about what inspired each song. I was surprised at the origin of Love Song - who knew that demands from her record label could lead to semi-angry confessions that turn into number one singles?

She's on tour with Counting Crows and Maroon 5 for a chunk of their summer tour, then moving onto a headlining tour of Europe.

Live MP3 MP3s:
Intro
Bottle It Up
Intro to...
Love Song
Intro to...
Gravity
Fairytale
Outro

Tour Dates:
Thu 07/31/08 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
Fri 08/01/08 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
Sat 08/02/08 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center
Tue 08/05/08 Hershey, PA The Star Pavilion
Thu 08/07/08 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Fri 08/08/08 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel
Sat 08/09/08 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
Tue 08/12/08 Saratoga Springs, NY Performing Arts Center
Wed 08/13/08 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center For The Arts
Fri 08/15/08 Hartford, CT New England Dodge Music Center
Sat 08/16/08 Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion At Stone Ridge
Mon 08/18/08 Darien Center, NY Performing Arts Center
Tue 08/19/08 Toronto, ON The Molson Amphitheatre
Thu 08/21/08 Burgettstown, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
Fri 08/22/08 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Sat 08/23/08 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheater
Sat 09/20/08 Cologne, GER Luxor
Mon 09/22/08 Hamburg, GER Mandarin Kasino
Tue 09/23/08 Berlin, GER Frannz
Fri 09/26/08 Paris, FRA La Maroquinerie
Sun 09/28/08 London, UK Scala
Sat 10/11/08 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
Mon 11/10/08 Milan, ITA Magazzini Generali
Tue 11/11/08 Munich, GER 59 to 1
Wed 11/12/08 Vienna, AS Birdland
Fri 11/14/08 Zurich, SWI Kaufleuten
Sun 11/16/08 Amsterdam, NET Melkweg
Fri 11/21/08 Manchester, UK Academy 3
Mon 11/24/08 Dublin, IRE Academy

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