Once they reach their AARP years, many music stars try to reignite their careers by recording an album of old songs. Not Daryl Hall. He hosts a variety show.
"Live From Daryl's House" started as a webcast in 2007. Then it became a syndicated television show in 2011. Now it's a touring concert -- for seven cities, including Minneapolis on Wednesday.
"If I had a master plan when I first started it on the Internet, it was to take it on the road," said Hall, the tall blond in Hall & Oates, in case you didn't know. "The challenge is: How do you do that? Because the show, by nature, is a non-audience show. I've done a couple, and we try to make the audience feel like they're onstage."
He's calling the tour Live From Daryl's House Nu-Soul Revue. It's not quite like "Live From Daryl's House," which usually involves a limousine picking up a singer in New York City and transporting him or her to Hall's estate in upstate New York.
The concert, which comes to the Orpheum, won't be like a "Daryl's House" blind date because both of his musical guests -- 24-year-old Seattle granola soul man Allen Stone and Brooklyn R&B star Sharon Jones of Dap-Kings fame -- have been on the webcast.
"Even though it's not a blind date, it's an early date because I've only met Allen Stone once and Sharon Jones once," Hall said last month. "The element of getting to know you musically and personality-wise, I think that will unfold onstage.
"It's not a very structured show. There's a lot of talking and stopping and starting. It's that feeling like you have on the show that there's a conversation going on."
As Garrison Keillor does when he takes "A Prairie Home Companion" on tour, Hall will have a stage set. There also will be a cooking segment, something included in every episode of "Live From Daryl's House." Tony Luke, king of the Philly cheesesteak sandwich, will demonstrate his specialty on a big screen. And Hall promises to distribute vouchers to order cheesesteaks by mail.
