{"id":19771,"date":"2013-12-13T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=19771"},"modified":"2013-12-13T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:30:12","slug":"watch-glen-hansards-concert-on-live-on-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-12\/watch-glen-hansards-concert-on-live-on-letterman\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Glen Hansard&#8217;s Concert on Live on Letterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hansard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-19773\" alt=\"Hansard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hansard-650x365.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hansard-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hansard-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hansard-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hansard.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Live on Letterman<\/strong><\/em>&#8211;the gift that keeps on giving.\u00a0 Just in time for holiday giving, the folks at <strong>Letterman<\/strong> outdid themselves this week in securing the great <strong>Glen Hansard<\/strong> and his huge band for an 80-minute performance for their <em><strong>Live on Letterman<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>series. We have been agog over<strong> Hansard&#8217;s<\/strong> live sets ever since catching him (embarrassingly, for the first time) and a large band in 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-10\/glen-hansard-at-hardly-strictly-bluegrass-festival-the-great-one-two-finish\/\">at the <strong>Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival<\/strong><\/a>. To see what we saw and what you should catch the next time you have the opportunity, watch this outstanding performance below.\u00a0 What we&#8217;ve learned is that <strong>Hansard<\/strong> gives everything he&#8217;s got every single time he performs; if you don&#8217;t believe us, watch as he exhorts and tears up (in the 24th minute) during the heart-rending <em><strong>Bird of Sorrow<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, watch <strong>Hansard<\/strong> wax about the <strong>Beatles<\/strong>, question the use of the phrase <strong>&#8220;Happy Holidays,&#8221;<\/strong> and perform songs from his last album <em><strong>Rhythm and Repose<\/strong><\/em>, and brand new EP <em><strong>Drive All Night<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 During the set <strong>Hansard<\/strong> and his great, huge band perform <em><strong>Love Don&#8217;t Leave Me Waiting<\/strong><\/em>, the new <em><strong>Lonely Deserter<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>When Your Mind&#8217;s Made Up<\/strong><\/em> (from the movie\/Broadway show <em><strong>Once<\/strong><\/em>),<em><strong> Bird Of Sorrow, Low Rising<\/strong><\/em>, another new song <em><strong>Her Mercy, Song Of Good Hope, Drive All Night<\/strong><\/em>, and, finally,<strong> Hansard&#8217;s<\/strong> popular hit <em><strong>Falling Slowly<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Hansard Holidays!<\/strong>\u00a0 (Apologies <strong>Glen<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"625\" height=\"425\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/can.cbs.com\/thunder\/player\/chrome\/canplayer.swf?pid=Gj6j0nQVRsfY&amp;partner=cbs&amp;gen=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"625\" height=\"425\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/can.cbs.com\/thunder\/player\/chrome\/canplayer.swf?pid=Gj6j0nQVRsfY&amp;partner=cbs&amp;gen=1\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live on Letterman&#8211;the gift that keeps on giving.\u00a0 Just in time for holiday giving, the folks at Letterman outdid themselves this week in securing the great Glen Hansard and his huge band for an 80-minute performance for their Live on Letterman series. We have been agog over Hansard&#8217;s live sets ever since catching him (embarrassingly, [&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-19771","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\/19771","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=19771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}