May 20th

  It was on May 20th, 2018 that I saw David Byrne on his American Utopia Tour. This show was at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton with Benjamine Clementine opening, his set was extremely weird.

May 19th

  On May 19th, 2010 I saw George Thorogood and The Destroyers play the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton. This venue was not a great place for Thorogood to play.

May 17th

  My ticket stub from the time I saw this excellent triple bill of C'mon, Pride Tiger and Whitey Houston play the Pawn Shop here in Edmonton.

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Live in Edmonton May 11th 2025

  My buddy Buzzard and I went to the Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit concert at the Winspear Centre last Sunday. This would be my fifth time seeing Jason and Co. in concert.

 Jason and his band the 400 Unit are on the road touring for Jason's latest album Foxes In The Snow, an all acoustic album he put out a few months ago. This show was an evening with Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, so no opening act.

 The venue wasn't quite sold out which kind of surprised me, but then tickets were on the expensive side, so I get it.

 The band opened with the song "The Life You Chose" from his 2015 album Something More Than Free and you could tell right off the bat that Jason was in fine form, sounding really good and his band were on fire. Jimbo the bass played is no longer in the band, filling in was Annie Clements whom is a touring bassist and vocalist, who has played with Sugarland among many others. She was awesome and really brought a cool vibe to the band, smiling, playing amazing and very cute. She can rock with the best of them, and when the band played the Drive-By Truckers song "Decoration Day" a song Jason wrote while in DBT, holy fuck did they rock that song out, rocked as hard as Neil Young's Crazy Horse at their best, and Annie was rocking right the fuck out with them and with a big smile the whole time. And of course guitarist Sadler Vaden who has been playing with Isbell for a long time now was ripping it up great as well. Jason's whole band is very strong.

 It was nice to hear some songs from Jason's latest album Foxes In The Snow done with a full band. Some of the songs I recognized from the album were "Eileen", "Bury Me" and "Open And Close", I really enjoyed hearing these songs done with a backing band.

 I think one of the oldest songs he did other then the DBT song was "Alabama Pines" from his 2011 album Here We Rest. He did play the song "24 Frames" which was awesome as it is one of my favourites of his. Other songs played that I recall were "Speed Trap Town" in which Jason mentioned it being a long time since he had performed that one, then there was "Stockholm" as well. With such a great catalog of music of course there were some songs I would like to have heard, but all in all this was an awesome show with him playing about two hours with no intermission. Good times!!!

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit.

May 16th

 On May 16th, 2014 I went to a show at the awesome Wunderbar in Edmonton with the following bands playing as part of the Hot Plains Music Fest. The bands being Bombchan, Marlaena Moore, Diamond Mind and The Secretaries. I miss the old Wunderbar, such a fun live music venue.

May 14th

  May 14th, 2009 I saw Joel Plaskett with Family & Friends play McDougall United Church in Edmonton. This was my first time seeing Joel Plaskett in concert and what an awesome show, a three hour long show, which makes sense as he was touring for his triple album called Three.

May 13th

  May 13th, 1991 I saw the triple bill headlined by The Kentucky Headhunters with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Carlene Carter opening at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton. A damn good triple bill it was.