On Sunday night, Carisa and I ventured over to Park West for The 2008 Hotel Cafe Tour. It's a group of musicians who mingle and mix to play songs. Each musician would come out on stage and play three, maybe four, songs and then someone else would come out and then the two of them would sing a duet and then someone else could come out and do backup for another song, etc., etc. It was really fun.
I mainly wanted to see Joshua Radin perform, as I love every song he's ever written, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Meiko and Ingrid. And Cary Brothers looks exactly like Timmy, when he's performing on stage. And Dan Wilson, another performer, reminded me of John Denver and then, lo and behold, he did a John Denver cover towards the end of the show. You fill up my senses, come love me again
It was a three hour singer-songwriter love fest. There were at least three times where a musician would make a comment, such as when Joshua Radin said "I used to teach art to children here in Chicago" and the crowd of women would immediately sigh "awww...." in unison. It was pretty funny.
At the end of the night I felt like I had spent three hours engrossed in thoughts about break-ups, heartache, love and hope. While hailing a cab home I told Carisa I felt we needed to go drink Chai Tea and smoke cloves after a show like that.
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