Showing posts with label Tom Petty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Petty. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Happy New Year! Here's to 2016!

Photo of Kris performing New Year's Eve 2014 by Lisa Renee Photography

Happy New Year! 2015 did not bring us many Kris Allen performances, as he spent the year focusing on his family, his new home in Nashville and recording his upcoming album due out this spring. But we did have some one-offs throughout the year, as well as a mini-tour of Florida in January 2015.

Yesterday on Twitter I asked Kris fans to nominate their favorite Kris performances and shows of the year. Favorites included:

My picks were the Tom Petty tribute (duh!), plus two shows I thought fans overlooked - a singer-songwriter showcase in Nashville where he debuted two new songs and a gig in West Palm Beach with amazing media!

I put the nominated performances from these shows into a little YouTube playlist for you:




Something to keep you busy while you wait for midnight! Or to whet your whistle for all the shows ahead on the Letting You In tour next year!

Happy New Year!
KAL

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Charity Show: August 31, 2015: Tom Petty Tribute Show, City Winery, Nashville, TN



Poster by @MusiciansCorner

Charity Benefit


Into the Great Wide Open
An Evening of Tom Petty Music

August 31, 2015


City Winery

Nashville, TN

6 PM CDT Doors
8 - 10 PM CDT Show







Show and List Preview:
This looks like such a fantastic show but I say this as a biased Tom Petty fan. Great line-up and you really can't go wrong with Petty music. Give me one of Kris' Tom Petty covers any day over one of his girl pop ones. (For those who don't know, Kris and KAB have covered  Breakdown  several  times, Kris, KAB and GRO covered Free Falling, and Kris tackled Petty's holiday classic Christmas All Over Again during one of his StageIt Christmas shows. Plus the country of Italy failed and didn't get us video of what was supposedly a blistering cover of American Girl.) And Torres got to jam with Ron Blair of the Heartbreakers after KAB's gig in West Palm Beach this summer, plus with his other band in California back in June.

As a huge Petty fan, I've got a couple of songs I'd love to hear covered. I'd love to hear Kris cover Here Comes My Girl from Petty's Damn the Torpedoes album. And the subversive side of me would like to hear him do The Last DJ (which is basically an indictment of the major labels and corporate radio conglomerates). Or maybe he should do what I'd nominate to be the theme song for all Kris fans in major US cities, The Waiting.

He'll probably do Breakdown. We do have some regulars who are going.

Updated: Kris performed Here Comes My Girl :)))) And also, with the rest, Walls. Set list (partial for everyone), video (with some quickie mp3s), IGs of everyone and media after the break...
Updated 9/2/15