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Hard to Handle Blues Fest 2022
Tonight Only Rocks!
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Shepherd Express June 25, 2018
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/concert-reviews/the-granville-blues-and-jazz-festival/
The lead singer of the band that followed Jordan, Tonight Only, sort of apologized for having at that Withers song, too, but they probably needn't have. They encouraged the crowd to sing along to its barrage of “I knows” and bested the two acts that bookended their festival performance by playing through what would have been their break. Actively acknowledging and encouraging the trickle of pre-teens who came forward to bust moves to their tunes, sometimes with adult guardians in tow, also put them in their audience's good graces. Though Tonight Only were something of a last-minute addition to the lineup, put on the bill only three weeks prior after another act had to cancel, they acclimated well to the event's aesthetic. Their spin on "Born Under a Bad Sign" owed at least as much to Albert King's original as Cream's remake. Shuffling rhythms supplanted the reggae syncopation in their interpretations of Eric Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff" and Sugar Ray's "Fly," and they segued in medley fashion from Tom Petty's "Breakdown" to Ray Charles' "Hit The Road Jack."