Artist: Dilly Dally
Songs: Marijuana + Morning Light + Sober Motel
Recorded at Lee's Palace, May 28, 2023.
Dilly Dally is a band that I arguably saw more before releasing their first album than in the stretch they made their second, but they were still a group that I regarded with enough fondness to feel a pang of sadness when they announced their dissolution, to be accompanied by a pair of farewell shows. Going out on their own terms at least made it possible to treat this winding-down as a celebratory capital-O Occasion, rather than a bittersweet requiem for the hard go a band in music's vast middle class has to face in considering the daunting nature of being a band that's popular enough to have an international fan base big enough to tour to, but being stuck in a system that makes that almost completely unsustainable.
In any case, this was a good way to wrap things up. With no horn sections and no special guests parading across the stage, this was no Last Waltz, just a band focusing on what they're very good at, pouring out almost every song in their oeuvre, hearts on sleeve like a gang of friends giving it everything they got.
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