My favorites from the Pickathon--The Black Lillies (who will be
playing soon in Seattle), Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three (who
are real up-and-coming crowd-pleasers) and Charlie Parr (an older guy
who is great, also heading up to Seattle before he heads back to
Minnesota). Bill Callahan too, but I haven't quite figured him out yet. Leonard Cohen meets John Cage live, but the songs on the CD are more mellow.
Elliott Brood, their favorite Canadian band The Sadies, and Eileen Jewell were runners up. Lightening Dust woke me from my sleep, Breathe Owl Breathe (the guy sounds just like Jonathan, but is a welcome updating of a classic) and my only banjos of the weekend in the duo Cahalen Morrison and Eli West.
But I heard many more bands that were all great just not my favorites.
The Mercury‘s JOYRIDE Issue Is Out Now!
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The Mercury‘s April issue is called “Joyride,” and it’s all about
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OK, since I'm trying to be exhaustive this year here is who else I saw--Black Mountain, Grupo Fantasma, Brown Out, Builders and Butchers, Wye Oak, Old Light, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Water Tower Bucket Boys, Thao and the Get Down and Stay Down, Michael Hurley w/ a band that included Lewi Longmire, the Pine Leaf Boys, Vetiver, Damien Juardo, Fruit Bats, Agesandages, and did I say Mavis Staples?
I heard Danny Barnes, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Califone and The Buffalo Killers and Corinne West and Kelly Joe Phelps from afar.
I saw Little Sue in the crowd stick thin with a new haircut.
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