The sold out Kate Pierson album release show at City Winery started out SLOW with a forgettable opening act called Sky consisting of a female singer romanticizing Sunday and all of our future demise with a male guitarist who deserved better and at times reminded me of Everybody Knows This is Nowhere era Neil Young on the electric guitar.

An enthusiastic Kate Pierson, who said she was from New Jersey and now lives in Woodstock, said she was going to play her new solo material as it appears on the CD. It took a little bit to take in Kate and the somewhat overly polished group of musicians after the opening act but she hit her stride with, what she referred to as, the somewhat controversial “Mister Sister” which she dedicated to a friend of hers who got sober and moved back with his mother. Kate said that when she called her friend, who starred in Wigstock, his mother answered the telephone and told her in a southern drawl “my son is not a woman”. 

The City Winery show, which Pierson played guitar throughout for the first gigs since the early B-52 days, showed off Kate’s vocal powers and provided for an overall entertaining evening.

Guitars and Microphones

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