FRIDAY
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - I'll let a quote from my son Charlie be the review here. "Daddy this is cool. It is so loud I feel like I have 2 hearts." In other words he rocked. Also, he gave me one of the best memories ever from a music festival. When they played the DBT song "outfit" and Jason dedicated it to his father and all fathers, my son crawled in my lap and said "Daddy I love you. You are a good dad." Folks it doesn't get any better than that.
Old Crow Medicine Show - It was late and already way past my son's bedtime so we had to miss OCMS but I heard they were good.
SATURDAY
I had unavoidable family obligations on Saturday. So I missed my 3rd day of Stages in the 18 years I have lived in Birmingham. I will share some video instead. I heard Grace Potter was the best act on Saturday from a couple of people the following day.
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - live at City Stages |
Griffin House at City Stages |
OCMS
Ben Harper on Saturday
SUNDAY
The lineup on the Songwriter stage was: Elizabeth Cook, Pieta Brown, Hackensaw Boys, Shooter Jennings and Robert Earl Keen. Not one of those artists disappointed. Elizabeth Cook got it started with her country flair and Keen closed it out as you would expect with his typical Texas showmanship. However, The Hackensaw Boys may have put on the best show and they certainly picked up a bunch of fans in the Magic City.
All that being said the Flaming Lips generated the biggest buzz of the entire weekend. I ran into a couple of freinds after the festival ended and received rave reviews from them.. Amazingly enough thay weren't even that familiar with their music. Howwever, in order to see the Flaming Lips I would have needed to skip Robert Earl and that would have been sacreligious.
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips - live at City Stages |
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Astrological Sign: Cancer
Zodiac Year: Horse
Hmmmmm.....
Shouldn't that be:
Age: 51
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Astrological Sign: "Piece out"
Zodiac Year: Jack Ass
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Anonymous said...
Chip, CMT is a terrible band - I would compare them to a classic Lookout Mountain Country Jazz Fusion Classical band that you may be familar with - Mark Blowers and the Flying Beds of Sun. Also, the group Joey and his Truck, another on of your favorites, would fall into this catagory.
June 15, 2008 8:03 PM
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