Jesse played a stripped-down set with just him and a pianist to a select but enthusiastic and devoted crowd in the courtyard. He was playing some small shows while he was in town to promote the Bad Brains movie he'd worked on.
He rattled through his classics and tracks off his latest albums: Almost Grown, Black Haired Girl, Brooklyn, Burning the Bowery, etc. He also had time to throw in his great Death or Glory cover.
The set closed with a lovely Cigarettes and Violets, which seems to have become his great 'lost' song. It can probably sit alongside Yellow Ledbetter and Acquiesce as great songs that deserved better than to be b-sides, but which then gain stature from being hidden gems that can be brought out for live shows.
Overall, it was a good energetic set, packed with audience, and our favourites.
Other SXSW 2012 reviews:
The Record Summer, Beale Street Tavern, Austin, 16 March 2012, SXSW 2012
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, ACL Moody Theatre, Austin, 15March 2012, SXSW 2012
Crooked Fingers, Frank, 16 March 2012, SXSW 2012
Bob Mould, Frank, 16 March 2012, SXSW 2012
Imaginary Cities, Canada Blast, Austin, 16 March 2012, SXSW 2012
Michael Kiwanuka, Radio Day Stage
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