I went with my parents to Blues Traveler on Saturday evening at River Roots Live in Davenport, IA. I have been to almost every incarnation of this festival over the years sans perhaps one or two years. It has become a free music event in conjunction with the Ribfest. There was a huge crowd and it was hard to navigate the field by the time we arrived at showtime of 9:30 pm. You had a lot of older people who were sitting down and there were also people standing as well. The situation was far from ideal.
Blues Traveler played a cover of "I Want You To Want Me" by Cheap Trick early on in the set. John Popper was entertaining on his trademark harmonica all evening. It appeared he had gained back some of the weight he had taken off with his Al Roker surgery. They ended the set with the second radio hit from 1995, "Hook". The encore was interesting with them doing a cover of "What I Got" by Sublime and they ended the night with "Runaround". This last song of course was their first hit.
I remember Blues Traveler because they redid the Roseanne theme song and appeared in an episode. I'd always been curious to see this band and obviously they were one of the groups involved with the original H.O.R.D.E. Tour with Phish and Widespread Panic. This performance was a good representation of Blues Traveler. It was almost 15 years after the peak of their commercial success yet they were still a fun live experience.
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