![]() Aubrey Richmond added the perfect icing on the musical case with her magnificent fiddle playing and beautiful vocals. Shooter held down keyboard duties, dishing up raucous piano and gospel organ flourishes. Drummer Jamie Douglass and bass player Ted Russell Kamp kept the groove on lockdown, while guitarist/pedal steel player John Schreffler laid down some delicious licks and solid rhythm. Opener Shooter Jennings’ band backed McKagan, and they served up a tight mix of country and rock that took the songs off Duff’s recently released album “Tenderness” and sent them into overdrive. ![]() The band’s 17-song set consisted of all 11 songs from “Tenderness,” along with some well-selected covers, including Mad Season’s “River of Deceit” and a rousing rendition of “Clampdown” by The Clash. Instead, he pulled some deep tracks from the band’s 1991 album “Use Your Illusion I.” These songs fit perfectly in style and tone and served as semi-familiar touchstones among the night’s many new songs. McKagan did play a few Guns and Roses tunes, but they were songs not necessarily known to the general audience. ![]() This show was a unique opportunity to see another side of the bass player from one of the world’s biggest rock groups. Sadly for them, the show had little resemblance to a G’n’R concert and more in common with a country-rock showdown. There were a lot of Guns and Roses t-shirts at the Duff McKagan show at Austin’s Scoot Inn.
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