Local music fans must have relished seeing Mason Jennings perform with some of our scene's lesser-sung greats Saturday at First Avenue. They included his collaborator for the entire set, Jacob Hanson, as well as openers the Pines, who backed/buoyed him through a half-dozen songs toward the end of the show. This wasn't just something Jennings did for the hometown crowd, though. Fans around the country got treated to similar sets all fall, in other renowned clubs as the 9:30 in DC, Fillmore in San Francisco and El Rey Theatre in L.A. The "Minnesota" tour truly was Minnesotan, in other words (never mind that the Pines originally hail from Iowa). Hopefully, fans can expect much of the same when Jennings returns to First Ave on Dec. 30.
Click here for the full review of Jennings' instrument-rotating set as well as Friday's Replacements tribute at First Ave. Here's Mason's set list:
Bitter Heart / Raindrops on the Kitchen Floor / Drinking as Religion / California, Pt. 2 / Crown / Butterfly / Simple Life (with Go Johnny Go) / Clutch / Southern Cross / Dakota / Your New Man / Be Here Now / Ulysses / No Relief / Pittsburgh / Ain't No Friend of Mine (with I Wanna Be Sedated) / Duluth / The Well of Love (start of set with the Pines) / Lonesome Tremelo Blues (Pines song) / Living in the Moment / City of Ghosts / Jackson Square ENCORE: One Paddle, Two Paddle (Hawaiian song, Mason on harpsichord) / Hobos Lullaby (Woody Guthrie) / Nothing / Darkness Between the Fireflies / Hearts Stop Beating
