{"id":1686,"date":"2010-07-25T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2010-07-26T18:53:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T18:53:51","slug":"the-spirit-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-07\/the-spirit-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1689\" title=\"DS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DS-434x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DS-434x650.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DS-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DS-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DS.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturdays are for the spirit and the spirited, and on Saturday the Delta Spirit boys came a ghostin&#8217; at Velvet Jones. \u00a0 Sold out and packed with a rabid young crowd, the Velvet and Club Mercy played perfect hosts to this crowd-pleasing band originally from San Diego and now residing in Long Beach. \u00a0 The last show of a 40-night tour before heading off to Europe in September, the band threw in some new, some old, some covers and some rarities, and delivered on all fronts.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t seen or heard them, they are a fervent, soulful group, and particularly live.\u00a0 Leader Matt Vazquez (no not the professional baseball pitcher from Santa Barbara) is a talented vocalist who can impressively hit all the notes live.\u00a0 He is backed by a great four to eight piece band that swells to at least eight (we lost count actually) onstage at times for added pounding, percussive drive.\u00a0\u00a0 Delta Spirit aren&#8217;t breaking any new musical barriers, but they cover the waterfront stylistically with flourish on their instruments and with stylish vocalistics.\u00a0 On the crowd-pleasing anthems they sound like an indie-Springsteen (note: Club Mercy brings the similarly-veined-in-that-regard band, Hold Steady, to Velvet Jones on Aug. 27th).\u00a0 At other times they play the blues belters (on a Louie Armstrong cover for example), and at others the plaintive Americana soulsters.\u00a0 The band knows and represents well their influences, and frequently whips up the crowd into a clapping, singalong fervor.\u00a0 And for good measure, they threw in a spirited cover of Pink Floyd&#8217;s <em>Wish You Were Here <\/em>(with the young crowd bizarrely bellowing along to every word&#8211;is there a Pink Floyd resurgence we don&#8217;t know about?)<em>.<\/em> They left it on the stage and the crowd left satiated.\u00a0 Check &#8217;em out next time.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed them, get ready for their next visit by checking out the band below.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wE1LalEvgE4&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KEXP at SXSW: Delta Spirit - Bushwick Blues\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RaJBANUnWuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delta Spirit - &quot;Children&quot;\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7YmslGNYRQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vivian is a particularly touching song by Vazquez about his grandparents, and his grandmother in particular.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uIzMi_1Mfrs<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you were wondering, when interviewed recently in the <em>Harrisburg American, <\/em>Matt Vazquez had this to say about his oft-spiritual lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, yeah. Spiritual is a good word for it. We all come from different places and we all have different views. I&#8217;ve been through the gambit of many different things and I&#8217;m comfortably loving my agnosticism. It doesn&#8217;t all have to go into nihilism. Writing about humanity is so behind what humanity actually is. Getting to sing about and write about humanity &#8211; I&#8217;m so happy to be part of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturdays are for the spirit and the spirited, and on Saturday the Delta Spirit boys came a ghostin&#8217; at Velvet Jones. \u00a0 Sold out and packed with a rabid young crowd, the Velvet and Club Mercy played perfect hosts to this crowd-pleasing band originally from San Diego and now residing in Long Beach. \u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}