Melissa Ferrick

Things Change

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We’re going to see Melissa Ferrick tonight, in Evanston. Yay for Melissa in Evanston!

Last night she was in Indianapolis and she’ll be heading to Ann Arbor next.

We’re only seeing her tonight in Evanston.

*sniff*

Back in the day, we thought nothing of driving all over the south — following Melissa from venue to venue. We’d get home at 2am on a work night after a show in Jacksonville and head out the next evening and do it again in Orlando or Tampa.

There were some weeks when we’d see her five times, in five different cities and sometimes in multiple states.

We’ve driven to Nashville (from both Florida and Chicagoland) to see her. We’ve driven to Atlanta, from Florida, several times for a show (and then considered following her to Nashville or Chapel Hill coming to our senses just in time to take the drive south instead of north/east.)

I don’t know how many times we’ve seen her in Hollywood, Florida. And then there were shows in Charleston and Tallahassee and Saint Augustine. Not to mention a couple in Gainesville. We’ve seen her in Madison and Milwaukee, too.

(I almost feel like I’m singing “Welcome to My Life” with this list of cities…)

A couple of years ago, we flew to Florida to see the big kids — or so we said. What we really did was fly to Florida to see the big kids AND see Melissa. Twice.

It’s very tempting to walk back to the bedroom and tell TW to get ready for a road trip and follow Melissa to Michigan… very tempting.

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Melissa – Still Right Here

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I remember when we used to see a half dozen Melissa Ferrick shows a year… those were the good ole days. When we were young. Not that I’m complaining or anything. I’ll take what I can get and when I can get a show as fan-fucking-tastic as last night’s show at Evanston Space was… well, that’s enough.

Her opening act, Ria Mae and Margot Durling were talented AND adorable. (Hi Margot! You need a fan page of your own because… duh, you’re awesome. Heh.) 

Anne Heaton joining Melissa for a couple of songs was fantastic, too. (That’s one of the good things about living here, I guess. Odds are higher that we’ll get a surprise guest during a show.)

Michelle, TW and I all have slightly different “favorites” (and our “favorites” lists are very very long) and it was pretty cool that she played one song from each of our “favorites” list. That doesn’t always happen, believe it or not.

I got Nebraska.

TW got Anything, Anywhere (with Anne Heaton, which was a treat.)

And Michelle-Belle got Burn this Guitar (which I didn’t record because a very large guy sat down in front of me towards the end of the show and obstructed the camera view. To record, I’d have had to shift way left or way right and then obstruct someone else’s view.  Darn it.

We couldn’t have asked for a better show. Really. Melissa played hard. She had fun, so we had fun. She was funny. She looked happy and healthy (except for that shoulder) and I’m looking forward to seeing her back here in the spring. (Unless she books some shows in Florida before that, then we’ll have to pull out the credit cards…)

You can see more of my videos from last night’s show here: Melissa Ferrick at Evanston SPACE

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We’re Going to See Melissa…..

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At this point, that’s pretty much all I can think of. I wish we were seeing Melissa in the south.  I wish the weather was nicer (I’m freezing.)  I wish we could follow her around and see two or three or four more shows over the next few days.

Barring all that… seeing her tonight at Evanston Space is pretty damn awesome.

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WTF with the large/extra large shirts?

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I laughed out loud at Melissa talking about Olivia vacations that aren’t cruises, in case you “don’t like boats”. hahahaha (I also cursed her out loud, I’m not bitter not at all.)

And what’s with the Large/Xtra large tshirts? I might be a little bigger than Melissa but I’m not THAT much bigger and I’m guessing those shirts are not gonna fit me. Damn it. I really want the Heartbeat shirt, it’s very “Threadless-like”. Maybe they shrink?

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Drive

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On October 29, I dropped a video from Melissa’s show in Chicago with the “we missed it” title and said I’d be back to talk about that – and then I never came back and talked about that. And now, it’s December and I have different stuff to say about it. Funny how that happens.

We thought one of the good things about moving to the Chicago area would be that we’d get to see Melissa more often. We were kind of excited to see two shows in Chicago and two more within driving distance.

But, the two Chicago shows were during RJ’s birthday weekend and they were 18 and older shows. Bah humbug to 18 and older shows. I can see that’s going to be a problem with living up here. The kids will never get to see her.

So, anyway, we couldn’t go to the shows at Shuba’s. So, I thought we’d drive to Indianapolis or Bloomington and see one of those shows. But something happened (work maybe? damn election!) and we totally forgot about the shows until after they were over.

I could not believe that neither of us even thought about Melissa until it was too late. That has never happened. Not in eight years. We always know exactly when she’s in our area and exactly how and when we’re going to see her. It was so damn depressing that I posted that brief blog post and decided I would just forget it, forget it ever (or never!) happened.

But, the election ended and more stress arrived to take its place. As I was having a mini nervous breakdown on Twitter one afternoon, someone tweeted a link to a Melissa video and I started surfing around youtube, looking at new uploads. Just for the hell of it, I clicked her tour schedule… Atlanta. Figures. Charlotte. Figures. Nashville. Fig… hey, wait, maybe we could do Nashville…

I arranged the days off. TW arranged the days off. I used my club points and booked a free night in a very nice Holiday Inn Express in Nashville. I booked the dog into the kennel and we did it. We drove the eight hours to Nashville, checked into the hotel, took a brief side trip to a yarn store because TW ran out of knitting projects on the drive down, and then hit the club.

Awesome. Except for the chick who could not stay in a seat and had to not only walk back and forth in front of my camera but had to STOP, BEND OVER and talk to her friend … in front of my video camera. Not only does that make it hard to see, it makes it really hard to record.

Whatever. We had a good time. It was warmer in Nashville. We got to hear a lot of southern accents. We ate at Waffle House. We drove home the next morning and arrived in time to pick up the kids for Tuesday night dinner. And, I’d totally do it again.

I don’t normally video tape Melissa singing Drive. But, she’s been having such a good time with the whole Beyonce’ thing that I couldn’t resist. Enjoy.

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