Vanessa Carlton @ Hotel Cafe 3/16/09

Last night I attended the hotel cafe to see vanessa carlton play an hour long set of favorites. i've always loved the hotel cafe and suprised that vanessa had never played their before...glad she made it...the show wasn't sold out, and there was quite a bit of room left in the small room. safe to say that because it being recession monday and such a last minute show....vanessa played 11 songs, 1 being an instrumental track entitled 'waltz' and 2 new songs, 'fairweathered friends' and 'london' which she said she wrote in london. fitting really! haha. ignored everything from her first record only playing songs from her 2 latest, hereos & theives and harmonium. it was great to hear 'half a week before the winter' once again, i believe it's been sometime since she has played that. i enjoyed the show over all....she messed up 3 times on her first vocal song 'hands on me'. but it's ok she pulled thru nicely. 'home' was a great way to end the show during your encore. thanks vanessa for another great show!