WILMINGTON — “This really felt like a homecoming,” photographer Tom Dorgan said of the JJ Grey and Mofro concert hosted at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater last week.
Dorgan was there to capture photos throughout the evening and said Grey commented multiple times how special Wilmington and the amphitheater is — a venue made for artists like him.
Grey has released a new record, “Olustee” — read his interview about it with PCD here — and played from it, as well as fan-favorites from his catalog. Dorgan called “99 Shades of Crazy” a banger, though “it hit differently” during Thursday, April 25’s set.
“He told the original origin of the song, based on a man he watched talking to himself on a bus many years ago,” Dorgan explained. “Fast-forward to now, JJ explained we all tend to have convos with ourselves — just not in public, and it was an acknowledgment that we are all a bit crazy, or we feel that way, and it was incredibly validating. I think we all sang a little louder after that.”
Below is the setlist and photos from the show, including opener Cedric Burnside:
JJ Grey and Mofro setlist:
Olustee
Air
A Woman
Rooster
This River
Top of the World
The Sea
99 Shades of Crazy
Jookhouse
Deeper Than Belief
Orange Blossoms
Lochloosa
Slow, Hot & Sweaty
On Fire
On A Breeze
The Sun Is Shining Down
Cedric Burnside
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