I am at a live performance by The Novotels, a grizzled Americana band from Boston. Lead singer Grant Lubbock makes an announcement that this is the band's last gig as he's about to go solo. I can see tears in the eyes of the drummer, Mort 'Whisky' Ackman. The band launch into a mournful version of KC and the Sunshine Band's 'Please Don't Go'. It brings the house down.