The String Cheese Incident Celebrates Being Home For New Year’s With Guests, Music, & Mayhem [Videos]
The String Cheese Incident stuck the landing of its three-day New Years’ Eve run with a pair of impressive shows at Denver’s beloved Mission Ballroom after an impressive first night of jams. Special guest Judith Hill literally changed the very structure of Cheese and the songs they shared on their collaborations during Friday’s second set, a stellar pair of setlists including covers from AC/DC, Aerosmith, Simon & Garfunkle, Blind Faith, Stevie Wonder, and Talking Heads.
The middle night of a three-show stand is a deceptively tough one to pull off to everyone’s satisfaction. You don’t have the raw emotion of finally launching the hotly anticipated run and you have to be cognizant of your duty to leave something in reserve for the third night to help kick things up to “Eleven.”
Of these three-show spectaculars, the New Year’s run is obviously the trickiest, with a large amount of those in attendance likely present all three nights and also super fans expecting something incredible day in and day out. Still…the middle night is like the middle child, dangerously easy to under-parent, so to speak. Fortunately for the fans, this isn’t even close to Cheese’s first rodeo and it wisely staked the deck with an “ace-in-the-hole” in the form of Judith Hill, plenty of classics, and the band’s best new song in years on the setlist.
Kicking off the night with “Lonesome Fiddle Blues” quickly yet confidently demonstrated how impressively The String Cheese Incident has grown and diversified over decades of jamming together. While most bands would likely stay closer to their bluegrass roots for a tune of this nature Cheese isn’t one to fight or deny its musical evolution. In fact, one of Cheese’s greatest gifts is its sonic diversity and the freedom it allows to flow through the group’s catalog and wide assortment of styles and genres.
The String Cheese Incident – “Lonesome Fiddle Blues” (Vassar Clements) – 12/30/22
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