This gig was part of her farewell tour and looking at her arthritic finger joints I don't blame her for not touring any more. She has always delivered top notch gigs so we were pleased to be sitting in the front row of St David's Hall for the show. First up was Kim Richey as for the last tour and she is a class act singing mostly her own songs with a clean strong vocal.
Gretchen came on with the same band as last year and the set was fairly similar as well. She kicked with 'Blackbirds' and then 'Witchita'. Her classic songs just kept coming 'The Matador, When all you got is a hammer', 'Pretty Things', the amazing 'Disappearing Act' and then a cover she has done before 'Guadaloupe'. I find it difficult to pick highlights but I really enjoyed 'Pretty Things' and 'Guadaloupe' and 'Disappearing Act' is just superb. In 'Everything Falls Away' which is perhaps my favourite on the night, there was a great soloing between Barry Walsh on Piano and Colm McClean on lead guitar. They alternated on extending playing which is something they did a few times during the gig. Both were excellent. Connor McCreanor on bass was also on the money and Kim Richey was brought out for backing vocals on a lot of the songs. Of course she did 'Five Minutes' before what was a very upbeat couple of covers to start the encore, 'Why you been gone so long' - a Mickey Newbury song followed by 'I ain't living long like this' - my favourite Rodney Crowell number. At the end she sang the old time 'One for my baby' accompianied by Barry and that was that. The sixth and final time I've seen Gretchen Peters and every time was outstanding.
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