Best CONCERTS of 2012?

Cs&N. Merle haggard. Ray lamontagne. Judy Collins. Gordon light foot. Glen Campbell.

Gomez at the TLA in Phila.!!
Lucinda Williams ,free at South Park, Pittsburgh
Damien Jurado
James Vincent McMorrow, free
Mike Doughty, was freakin Awesome!!!! Free, at South Park
Gary Jules at very small theater

Pat Metheny and Unity Band in a small venue.

Joss Stone w opening set by Vintage Trouble at Schubert Theater in New Haven, CT- She can set the house on fire!!!

Alison Krauss & Union Station at Oakdale (OK, it's now named after a car company or something, who cares?) Theater in Wallingford, CT- Still the purest voice I have ever heard and Jerry Douglas is from another planet!

I was at the "This is 40" soundtrack release party last night at The Roxy, a small club on LA's Sunset Strip.

The main act was Graham Parker & The Rumour who did a great 2 hour show. The first half featured lots of new material and was a little spotty for me. However, the band really took off after that segment ended and they lit into the older, more familiar stuff. Other than "Heat Treatment" and "Mercury Poisoning" they played just about everything that ever got airplay, and they played it all very, very well.

Both opening acts, Ryan Adams and Lindsey Buckingham, played 30 minute acoustic sets. I've seen Buckingham play many times and he was great (as always), but I haven't seen Adams since his Whiskeytown days. He was really good and quite different in an all acoustic mode.

In all, I thought that it was a great show and right up there with the solo Buckingham concert that I saw a few months back as my year's best.

Marty