re: Singer Aaron Lewis says "I'm American, I don't speak Spanish" walks off stage early

Correct .. kind of a storyteller type format. Where it gets aggravating is when people start yelling cover songs for him to play. There’s only so much of someone yelling “Freebird” a guy could take. If you want cover songs go down to the corner bar.

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He now does all acoustic sets

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I've never seen Lewis in an acoustic setting, but this trend toward smaller acoustic "concerts" is a lot of fun.

I attended a "dinner and acoustic set" with Charlie Robison a year or two ago, and it was one of my favorite concerts ever.

He did one set of songs that he had planned, took a break, and came back to let the guests make requests.

I asked him to play Indianola, and he said that he had not performed it in years. Whether it was time or drink, he actually skipped a stanza of the song, but I loved it anyway. It was fun asking him what made him think to write a song about an immortal, 19th century German immigrant to Texas.