Heartbreaker, for me is the peak or close to it
so that almost the entire night with that as a focus, hard for me not to be biased
It had it's trainwrecky/cringe moments, but of the 10 or times I've seen him, easily one of the better musical performances.
Similar set up with him for last few years, tons of guitars, piano and weird homy accouterments.
But we noticed a drum kit?
that was a fun addition, when he did a rocking heavy metal dirge of bartering lines
if he would have just done that, I probably would have left happy
He did mention multiple times he was retiring and these were his last shows (except a Australia tour?)
of course he argued with the audience, some one shouted 'just play' and that really stuck in his craw
a few songs later, he pipes up 'just play' and launces in to this animatronic/devo-like version of Oh my sweet Carolina, didn't finish it but got 1/2 through, giggled and then came back normal and said I need to record it that way, then launched into a sweet impassioned version
It was an almost 3 hour show, with a 30 min intermission and probably 1 hour of talking...so I can see how that would grate on some here
It had a very tom waits feel, there was even a weird old timey telephone on one of the tables?
Oh we got Not Dark yet from Dylan,
and the Changeling by the Doors ? deep cut that I didn't know, but this description cracked me up
The Guardian described it "a James Brown-reminiscent funk-rock strut heavy on groove and grit."
