The home crowd definitely pumped up Tift Merritt and her band tonight. They performed each of the new tracks from Another Country, plus a good sample of Tambourine and a couple of Bramble Rose standouts.

I hope someone else can get you a detailed set list. One thing we will lack from this performance is much video and still photography documentation. The venue was strict about photography.

The cameras were busy afterward, catching up with TM and bandmates as they milled about.

I plan to post a five-minute video a little later.

As promised, the video at this link includes:

• Tift interacting with fans
• Ghman and DavidK discussing the show
• Jay Brown interview
• Scott McCall interview
• Phillip Reid plus alcohol
• Zeke Hutchins interview

{edit: I must've been tired, because I didn't even see this thread when I first posted this in its own thread.  I think everything's straight now.}

Just got back from Durham, and I guess everyone else is partying, on the road, or sound asleep right now.  Sleep is sounding better and better, but I thought I'd say once again, for the record, that Tift absolutely rocks. 

No cameras were allowed in the show, presumably because the whole thing was being videoed.  So, unable to photograph the show, I amused myself by writing the setlist down on the back of my ticket with a ballpoint pen.  My handwriting is incredibly illegible, but here's what I can read of what I wrote:

1. Something to Me
2. Broken
3. Another Country
4. Supposed to Make You Happy
5. Hopes Too High
6. I Know What I'm Looking For Now
7. Ain't Looking Closely
8. Keep You Happy
9. Tell Me Something True
10. My Heart is Free
11. Neighborhood
12. Tender Branch
13. Morning is My Destination
14. Good-Hearted Man (solo encore)
15. Write My Ticket
16. Stray Paper
17. Plainest Thing
18. Mille Tendresses

And a couple of photos from after the show.

Tift at the autograph booth.

Zeke watches the traditional TMSTFC Carpet Photograph being taken.

Invisible Martini (Shaken, not stirred)

The Ladies' Man

 All right, time for sleep.  I'll sort through the rest of my pictures later.  It was nice to see the Screaming Teens again!  Or for the first time, in some cases! 

Great video Mitch.  You are now the official TMSTFC videographer (if Chris and Phillip say it's OK  :-) ).  After I looked at the most recent video I looked at your video from Schoolkids again.  I had forgotten that Zach brought along about 437 items for Tift to sign.  And, of course, I looked like a blubbering idiot.  Thanks anyway.

Saw Tift for the first time last night in Durham and enjoyed it very much.   I think it is really interesting to see the wide variety of folks that attended the concert.  The crowd ranged from very young (under 12) to those that could be Tift's grandparents.  As the band was rocking on stage, it made me smile to the enthusiastic response of all of the various types of people in the crowd.

I guess it can't be avoided, but must confess that I found the videographer to be a distraction.

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Here is the link to my photos from the show. I picked up my camera during the encore and took pictures until I was made to leave the auditorium.

Thanks for the pics.  Sorry that you were made to leave.

I'm curious to know who sets the camera/recording policy ?

Funnily enough, the original reason I was given why cameras weren't allowed was that they didn't want any distractions during the show.  Glad you had a good time, jtelander.

Nice work with the picture piracy, Zach.  The photos came out nicely for ones you had to sneak from the back of the auditorium.  And Mitch the unofficial official TMSTFC videographer, that's some fine after-the-show interviewing.

Good to see you all! What a fun evening! Forrest, I'm still giving you grief about sitting at the grownup table instead of at the kids table with the rest of the riff raf. Scott , I'm sorry you missed dinner, but you were stylin'! As for the peeps at our table, well, that just rocked. So nice to get to visit with all of you.

Phillip and I were lonely for Andy all the way home. I wanted to keep him. We had lunch with him today and then dropped him at the airport on the way out of town. He was excellent company and I hope he'll come be a house guest with us again soon! (We need more cookies, Andy!)

I'm uploading the videos from my extremely superior Flip video camera (2 double-A batteries and a blurry zoom feature!) and soon I will put them up for some Teen footage. I'm going to totally smoke Mitch's rank amateur video with my extraordinary professional video skills. Mine is going to be called "The Tift Cloverfield Weekend!" or maybe "The Blair Tift Project!" Footage of my feet is an extra bonus.

Whew!  Just rolled in from Durham (why the hell is that flight two hours up, but three hours back? )  Anyway, I've got little to add to everything that's been said about the show, but I wanted to thank all of you Screaming Teens for being such a blast to hang out with.  My only regret is we didn't get more time to hang out.  Seems like maybe Tift needs to curate a three-day music festival or something.  Then we can maybe get Andy to come back to the States!

Mitch, you really are the official Unofficial videographer now.  Nice work interviewing the band - I'm not sure they even noticed they were being exploited for your documentary purposes ;)

To everyone I met this weekend, it was a real pleasure.  Why do you suppose Tift has the nicest bunch of super fans on the planet?  -DK