Trey Anastasio Band Honors Motown Records In Detroit
By Jeffrey Greenblatt May 7, 2017 • 9:00 am PDT
Last night the Trey Anastasio Band pulled into the Motor City for a show at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak. As has become the norm for TAB’s first extended tour since the Fall of 2015, the octet used the opportunity to honor the city they were playing in with a cover song.
The two-set show featured plenty of TAB classics including “Cayman Review,” “Curlew’s Call,” “Money, Love and Change,” “Night Speaks To A Woman,” “Burlap Sack and Pumps” and “Simple Twist Up Dave.” Big Red and his band also served up takes on “Sand,” “Magilla,” “Gotta Jibboo,” “Alaska,” “Last Tube” and more. Trey Anastasio & Co. also worked in their recently debuted version of Hozier’s “Work Song,” as well as covers of “Clint Eastwood” and “Sweet and Dandy.”
The biggest surprise of the night came towards the end of the second set when TAB horn players Natalie Cressman and James Casey came center stage to front the band on a cover of the Motown classic “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” Written by Ashford & Simpson, the song became a hit single twice first in 1967 by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and then again by Diana Ross, who took the song to number one in 1970.
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Setlist
Set One: Sand, Acting The Devil, Cayman Review, Ocelot, Magilla, Curlew’s Call, Work Song, Dark & Down, Money Love & Change, Everything’s Right, Last Tube
Set Two: Night Speaks To A Woman, Shine, 49 Bye-Byes, Burlap Sack & Pumps, Gotta Jibboo, Alaska, Simple Twist Up Dave, Bounce, Clint Eastwood, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, First Tube
Encore: Sweet & Dandy, Valentine, Architect, The Parting Glass
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