{"id":446,"date":"2013-08-31T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=446"},"modified":"2015-10-07T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T20:36:22","slug":"somebodys-darling-granada-theater-dallas-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/31\/somebodys-darling-granada-theater-dallas-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody’s Darling – Granada Theater – Dallas, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by Michael Pittman <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 31, 2013 at 08:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Image\"The amazing Granada Theatre. It\u2019s one of Dallas\u2019 landmarks and it\u2019s been around a long long while. I graduated Richardson High and this was one of my haunts. It\u2019s always been on Greenville Ave. just south of Mockingbird and I can remember packing more than the legal limit into the car and heading down to The Granada.<\/p>\n

I arrived early and got to know some of the staff a little bit before the show and was pleasantly surprised to find out the house photographer barely remembered the Texas Pop Festival as little as I did. We agreed Sly Stone stole the show. Yea..Zep was there..Ten Years After, Nazz\u2026<\/p>\n

So it was like getting totally immersed in the old days and it was fantastic. I got to wander around a little backstage before the show started, reliving that well configured stage with all the backdrops, lights and curtains. Seemed like nothing, yet everything had changed, but here, rock was still king!<\/p>\n

What made it even better was that an HMR favorite was headlining tonight. We\u2019ve watched Somebody\u2019s Darling for some time now and seen these 4 (now 5) musicians storm through many a set with the kind of grit and determination befitting a true rock n roll legend in the making.<\/p>\n

\"Image\"Amber Farris has always led the band with her powerful, gritty, totally soul driven voice that fairly drips of the best in Southern roots that Janis herself would be proud of, if not totally envious of. I\u2019m not sure this girl knows HOW to stop and yet makes it look so easy to go from full-tilt boogie to laid-back ballad and back again. I talked to her after the show and her voice was as clear as ever where most singers would be speechless after having given their voice a thrashing like she did.<\/p>\n

The rest if the band was the same with Nate Weden on Drums and David Ponder on guitar. Former bassist Michael Talley had to my surprise switched over to keys, handing the bass spot over to the very capable newcomer Wade Coffer. So now with 5 in the lineup, the sound was solid and much more versatile than ever. The changes added drive, creating (in Amy\u2019s words) a harder rock sound. I would never have thought I\u2019d ever hear SD doing Rod Stuart\u2019s Stay With Me, but the keys made it possible\u2026MORE than possible even down to the odd timings. It was during this song that the 2 previous bands, Quaker City Night Hawks and Goodnight Ned were invited onstage to join in the festivities.<\/p>\n

To say Amy and the boys tore the roof off the place would be an understatement. They not only tore the roof off, but blew out the doors and cranked it to a level you\u2019d have to see to believe. Somebody\u2019s Darling was on fire tonight just coming off a very successful 2 week tour of the Eastern seaboard. They were happy\u2026tired, but happy and played a seamless hour and half set to a crowd of probably 5-600 packed into the general admission area. The sound crew and the sound system tonight were top-notch, 2nd to none.<\/p>\n

The material was fairly evenly divided between cuts from the 1st and 2nd CDs and some new ones destined for an upcoming CD. No date for that release yet, but I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll manage to get our grubby hands on a copy and bring you our take on it.<\/p>\n

I was glad I made the trip for a lot of reasons on a few different levels. Somebody\u2019s Darling totally killed it tonight.<\/p>\n

Cold Hands
\nBack to the Bottle
\nCome to Realize*
\nWeight of the Fear
\nMaybe
\nGet What You Want*
\nMy Own Medicine
\nSame Record*
\nKeep Shakin
\nVowels Flow*
\nCold Hearted Lover
\nPretty Faces
\nPretty Leaves
\nChug Chuggin
\nStay With Me<\/p>\n

Generation*
\nWedding Cloths<\/p>\n

*new songs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Michael Pittman Aug 31, 2013 at 08:00 PM The amazing Granada Theatre. It\u2019s one of Dallas\u2019 landmarks and it\u2019s been around a long long while. I graduated Richardson High and this was one of my haunts. It\u2019s always been on Greenville Ave. just south of Mockingbird and I can remember packing more than… <\/p>\n

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