Posted by:
memikeyounot
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Date: February 24, 2018 01:16PM
About 830pm last night, my middle son, soon to be 40 years old (and he and his wife and friends are going on a brewery tour to Fort Collins, CO) texted me to see if I wanted to go with him to see Margo Price do a show at the State Room,a decent venue here in Salt Lake. I said "Sure" not knowing much about Margo Price although I did hear an interview with them on Fresh Air a few months ago. I didn't tell him that I was THIS close to getting ready for bed but I appreciated that he would call, since his wife didn't want to go.
Margo has a great country rock voice and their band is 6 guys, drummer, 2 guitarists, bass player, keyboard and a guy on pedal steel, plus her. It was VERY loud and even when the band took a break and she and her husband did a 3 song acoustic set, it was still loud. Before the break, she sat down on a separate drum kit and did a 10 minute set which was about as cool as anything I've seen recently.
The State Room is a nice venue, although it's always interesting to watch people dance on the floor when they really shouldn't be showing off their dance skills. The same people will get up today and decide that they probably had too many $7.00 beers last night.
The show got over at 1145ish and we had to walk south to the old Sears store parking lot. Per my phone, it was 17 degrees. I was glad to get home into bed.
Here she is on Stephen Colbert's show recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQ_XZ8cOiM