Band of Horses rips through fantastic acoustic set at Wilshire Ebell
Mark E. Ortega
GrimyGoods.com
February 13, 2014
It was evident from the outset that Seattle founded folk rock group Band of Horses put a lot of thought into their special acoustic gig at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The show took place the same day that their live album Acoustic at The Ryman was released.
It wasn’t a case of the band simply playing songs from their catalog with acoustic guitars. Some songs were arranged completely differently as to lend themselves to the format better than they would have. The opening song of their 19-song set, “Neighbor”, set the tone, as three of the band mates harmonized beautifully over nothing but a piano.
The band’s on-stage camaraderie carried them well as they chopped it up between songs as they found the right tunings and figured out the timing of some of the songs on the fly. They didn’t sound unprepared so much as they sounded nervous in wanting to achieve total mastery of their performance, of which they did.
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