Bobby McFerrinan unofficial fan site

Encore

Try This at Homethe one that hooked me

One singer. One audience in Minneapolis. Fourteen songs that didn’t exist until the people in the room helped make them up.19

The trailer

from the director · 1 video · 1 min

The only official clip online. The full concert isn’t officially on YouTube, so it isn’t here. Buy the DVD.

Try This at Home, official trailer (57 sec)From director Joe Brandmeier · 0:57
  1. 01Try This at Home, official trailer (57 sec)From director Joe Brandmeier · 0:57 · Joe Brandmeier

Why it’s the encore

When I stood a few feet from Bobby in 2002, I hadn’t seen it yet. Once I did, I was obsessed. On November 24, 2008, I ordered twenty copies, and that December, in the darkest days of the Great Recession, I handed them to my DoublePositive team at our holiday party.5 The receipt is in my story.

The facts

  • An improvised solo concert, made up with a concert-hall audience at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.19
  • Directed by Joe Brandmeier; produced by Brandmeier, Craig McKay and Linda Goldstein.19
  • Released on DVD by EuroArts, April 19, 2005. About 42 minutes.20,19 When it was filmed is where sources disagree: 1999 or 2001.

Fourteen songs

  1. Harmonizin’
  2. Try This at Home
  3. In the Morning
  4. Staccato Groove
  5. Opera-Style
  6. The Shirt-Scratching Song
  7. Ducks
  8. The Name Song
  9. Head in My Bed Blues
  10. Calypso Song
  11. More Singin’
  12. Folk Rap
  13. Walkin’ on the Beat
  14. Out We Go

Track list from the New York Public Library catalog.19

Get the DVD on Amazon

A plain link. I earn nothing from it.21