Victoria Williams & the Original Harmony Ridge Creep Dippers
Thursday 1st October 1998 £12.50. Ticket No: 00032
Although the ticket has Victoria Williams in much larger print this was essential an Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers gig. It was one of the strangest ones that I have been to at Tuts and also one of the more expensive.
Due to Victoria's health issues (she has MS) the audience were asked not to smoke this being in the days before smoking bans.Not an unreasonable request.
However, I seem to remember that the audience were asked to sit on the floor as opposed to stand and that the lights remained on during the show.
It has to be said that Ms Williams ' voice is very much an acquired taste and I'm not sure that I have ever fully required it. We were primarily there for the Jayhawks connection given that her then husband and fellow Creep Digger was none other than Mark Olson. I must have been reasonably impressed as I came away with their CD Pacific Coast Rambler duly signed by Victoria, Mark and the third band member Mark "Razz" Russell
I don't have any of her solo material apart from the occasional track. Summer of Drugs comes from the Rough Trade shops compilation Singer Songwriter 1. I'm not sure where I got it but Sunshine Country was a track from her 2004 album Loose. Miss William's Guitar is taken from the brilliant Jayhawks album Tomorrow the Green Grass.
Victoria Williams - Summer of Drugs
Victoria Williams -Sunshine Country
The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers - Give My Heart to You
I saw them a few years later - 2003 or 2004 I think - ramshackle but fun.
ReplyDeleteYou may have got "Sunshine Country" from me, accorded to my scrupulous records I posted it in 2016. "Loose" is worth picking up if you find it in your ramblings. Her later albums got increasingly patchy.