all words and photos: Paul Goodman
If you're into Citizen Cope, it is not hard to understand how Cope sold out the 9:30 Club on Saturday night. If you're not, well, it's hard to imagine the super mellow Citizen Cope caring. Having spent his youth in and around DC, Citizen Cope aka Clarence Greenwood has a big following in the DC area. In addition to selling out the 9:30 Club on Friday and Saturday, he sold out Ram's Head Live! last Saturday night.
This Saturday night marked the last night of a ten-month tour promoting Greenwood's new album, "Rainwater LP" which he released on his own label. Greenwood bounced from album to album on Saturday night, launching the show with a stark acoustic rendition of "Salvation", a track from his self-titled release in 2002.
Counterbalancing Greenwood's calm delivery -- sometimes he barely moves his mouth while singing -- was the massive sound of his band. An organ, a keyboard, drums, and a bass guitar fill out Cope. The crowd showed Cope plenty of love and the applause going into the encore was one of the loudest moment's I've experienced at the 9:30 Club.
They didn't spare any love for Cope's opener, Gin Wigmore, either, and the young, upbeat singer smiled shyly as the crowd booed when she announced her last song.
Previously in Live DC:
- 5/22: LiveDC: Spirit Animal @ Red Palace
- 5/22: LiveDC: Astra Via @ Black Cat
- 5/22: LiveDC: Father John Misty @ Rock & Roll Hotel
- 5/22: LiveDC: Drive-By Truckers and Lucinda Williams @ Merriweather
- 5/22: Photos: Summer Camp takes the "Ladies of Town" Drag Show
- 5/22: LiveDC: Penguin Prison & Class Actress @ RNR Hotel
- 5/21: LiveDC: James Morrison @ 930 Club
- 5/21: Photos: Que Sera L'Anniversaire @ Napoleon
- 5/21: LiveDC: La Sera/ Beach Week @ Red Palace
- 5/21: LiveDC: The Black Keys & Arctic Monkeys @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
God loves a cheerful giver.
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