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Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos Reunite At Love Rocks NYC 2022

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Last night’s sixth annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert for God’s Love We Deliver at The Beacon Theatre featured a rare performance from Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos. The three-song mini-set from The Rolling Stones guitarist was just one of many highlights in New York City that also included Warren Haynes, Mavis Staples, Melissa Etheridge, Hozier and many others.

First held in 2017, the fundraiser for an organization that prepares and delivers meals to New Yorkers in need features an all-star lineup of musicians fronting an insanely talented house band led by musical director Will Lee. Will Lee along with guitarists Eric Krasno and Larry Campbell, keyboardists Ricky Peterson and Jeff Young, percussionist Pedrito Martinez and drummer Shawn Pelton were on stage for the entire four-hour concert. The God’s Love Horns (Evan Barker, Ron Blake, Mike Davis, Aaron Heck, Bill Holloman and Jim Hynes) and We Deliver Singers (Elaine Caswell, Dennis Collins, Neal Coomer, Chrissi Poland, Nicki Richards and Mark Rivers) joined the house band at various points of the evening.

Ben Harper kicked off Love Rocks NYC 2022 with a stirring performance of his instrumental “Inland Empire” and then teamed with house band for a thumping take on Led Zeppelin’s “When The Levee Breaks” featuring famed photographer Danny Clinch on harmonica. Comedian Bill Murray, a Love Rocks NYC regular, told jokes and discussed the importance of God’s Love We Deliver’s mission before Steely Dan guitarist Connor Kennedy emerged with an acoustic to front a singalong version of “Learning To Fly” by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.

The next featured performer was Celisse who wowed during her Love Rocks NYC debut both on the original “Get There” and Led Zeppelin’s “Rock & Roll.” Shawn Pelton went without Steve Gadd on a second drum set this year yet held his own all night long. Murray returned after “Rock & Roll” to introduce God’s Love We Deliver CEO Karen Pearl for a presentation in which she revealed portions of proceeds from the concert will go towards victims of the war in the Ukraine. Another highlight followed as guitarists Jimmy Vivino and Bernie Williams tore through “In The Midnight Hour.” Members of the house band including Martinez and Lee took solos during the extended “Midnight Hour,” which also included Murray singing a verse.

Nashville’s Maggie Rose shined in covering the Bill Withers classic “Lonely Town, Lonely Street” before iconic vocalist Mavis Staples roused the crowd to its feet on Talking Heads’ “Slippery People” and “I’ll Take You There” from her time in The Staple Singers. The incredible night of music continued with Allison Russell delivering a goosebump-inducing “Nightflyer” joined center stage by the We Deliver Singers and SistaStrings. Russell went on to channel Stevie Nicks to Hozier’s Tom Petty on a sensational “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”

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The music was broken up by vignettes from hosts Murray, Steve Schirripa, Micheele Buteau and Lawrence Fishburne who kept the audience entertained during brief pauses while the stage was reset. Larkin Poe emerged next with the Lovell Sisters kicking the energy up on “She’s A Self Made Man” and “Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo.” Then, after Anders Osborne fronted a groovy “Dixie Chicken” featuring Kennedy, Clinch and Ivan Neville, Fishburne introduced Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos to the delight of the capacity crowd.

The X-Pensive Winos features guitarist Waddy Watchel, drummer Steve Jordan, keyboardist Ivan Neville and bassist Charlie Drayton. With Drayton busy backing Bob Dylan, Richards recruited Will Lee to hold down the bottom end. Love Rocks NYC is typically filled by incredibly tight performances. However there was a much appreciated greasiness and loose feeling as Keef led the group through “999,” “You Got The Silver” and “Before They Make Me Run.” Last night marked the group’s first performance of a Winos original (“999”) since 1993 as pointed out by Rolling Stone. Both “You Got The Silver” and “Before They Make Me Run” are Rolling Stones classics recorded for 1969’s Let It Bleed and 1978’s Some Girls respectively. It was tough to find any audience members sitting down during Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos’ performance.

There was still over an hour of fantastic music following the Winos reunion. Hozier and Celisse returned to the stage to duet on the former’s “Work Song” before the Irish musician fronted a dynamic cover of David Bowie’s “Changes.” Next up was Melissa Etheridge who was in fine form and seemed to love every minute performing The Beatles’ “Come Together” and her own “I’m The Only One” with the house band.

Love Rocks NYC rolled on with The Revivalists frontman David Shaw featured on “Ooh La La” by Faces and The Who’s “Baba O’Riley.” Shaw showed off his electric stage presence in jumping around the stage as Larry Campbell delivered the iconic “Baba O’Riley” violin solo. Love Rocks regular Warren Haynes, no stranger to the Beacon Theatre especially during March, came out next. Haynes led the house band through Gregg Allman’s “Just Another Rider” and Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long.” Warren crushed it both on guitar and vocals.

The Gov’t Mule frontman surprised the audience by welcoming unbilled performer Jackson Browne to the stage. Haynes noted Browne is one of his favorite singer-songwriters of all-time and was all smiles throughout “Running On Empty.” Eric Krasno, Larry Campbell, Jeff Young and Warren Haynes traded solos to bring the title track to Browne’s 1977 live album to a triumphant conclusion.

Love Rocks NYC executive producers John Varvatos, Greg Williamson and Nicole Rechter emerged as the clock approached midnight to thank the crew, musicians and everyone else involved in a concert that involved over eight months of planning to pull off. The organizers also revealed the next Love Rocks NYC will be held on March 9, 2023. With that, most of the evening’s performers loaded onto the stage for Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” to cap the memorable show.

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Watch pro-shot video from last night’s show and check out the setlist below:

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Setlist

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