 3/24/2024 - Buffalo, New York - I was sitting in Blue Cross Arena watching the Amerks game on a Deb freebie and decided to leave early and head to downtown Buffalo, New York's Asbury Hall to see a night of blues featuring Samantha Fish and J.D. Simo. It was 3 hours before the show and I went online to grab a ticket but the show was soldout. I called the venues box office and talked to a nice girl who said there was one ticket in VIP available but not showing on the website. She corrected the problem and I was able to snag a great seat at the very last minute for this soldout show, six rows back left center stage. The show was defintely a sellout and J.D. Simo came out right at 7PM and played a great but short set of tasty blues. He did a nice cover of John Lee Hooker's Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive. After a short intermission, Samantha Fox and her band hit the stage and played a good set of blues that included originals and covers. She opened the set with Bulletproof. The set included Chills and Fever, some nice acoustic covers of Gladys Knight & The Pip's If I Were Your Woman and Charley Patton's Jim Lee Blues, Part 1. The sellout crowd appeared to enjoy the blues filled jam and Samantha came out for a two song encore that included being joined by J.D. Simo for excellent renditions of Junior Kimbrough's I'm In Love With You and a jammed filled Bitch on the Run. A great show in an excellent venue, so glad I was able to make it out for this show. I will be back for sure. Slideshow |
