October 01, 2005
Today.
Played hooky for the first time in a long time (except for the good plays at Bindlestiff the other night with J-Lu), and saw the following folks today at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (for free!):
- Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez (definitely checking out their CDs -- hot stuff)
- the first half of Patty Griffin's set (hers too)
- Toshio Hirano (someone get this man into a studio!)
- the first half of the Del McCoury Band's set
- Joan Baez and Steve Earle singing "Jerusalem"
- the second half of the Dry Branch Fire Squad's set
- Buddy Miller (with Emmylou Harris guesting on two songs!)
- The Knitters (basically, X and bassist Johnny Ray Bartel -- totally cool just to see Exene Cervenka and John Doe hamming it up, plus Dave Alvin shredding on lead guitar)
- Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (amazing, obviously; and yes, he sang "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" -- and she sang "White Rabbit!")
- the second half of Los Super Seven's set (basically Calexico, Joe Ely and Raul Malo -- excellent as well)
As you can imagine, my mind is still blown from all this incredible music! Tomorrow will be even more packed...
Sunny I'm deeply concerned about your choice of intoxicants. Am I the only one who thinks it's sacrilege to consume Miller Lite etc. in the hometown of Anchor Steam? Remind me to set up an intervention when we see you in April. Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
P.S. Dontcha love our session time?? I guess no staying up late belting out Freddie Aguilar tunes the night before eh? This is my 3rd super-early a.m. session in as many conferences in a row. Some weird karmic force is following me around. Sorry y'all have to suffer along with me.
Posted by: o. p. on October 4, 2005 01:39 PM