Dan Mangan (Luminato, June 16,2012)

Dan and band, including a violinist and trumpet who hadn't played with them in a year, have been touring Oh Fortune for some time and it shows. In fact this show had many of the same aspects as last summer's shows. It leaned heavily on the new material with the mid-set exception of Sold and later Dan's now classic live rendition of Basket. Following a one-two punch of Robots (in-crowd singalong) and Rows of Houses (amazing live) it was hard to see how he was going to follow that up. What he did was slow it down for album closer and very strongly written Jeopardy. It worked in the hot, afternoon sun.