There wasn't a whole lot of old-time acoustic folk this year. Neko Case held down the alt-country standard and there were a handful of traditional acts but really a lot of diversity.
This year had two African acts, Sierra Leon Refuge All Stars and Bombino. I highly recommend Bombino, they were a hell of a lot of fun, in the savannah/blues style of Ali Farka Toure. Lake Street Dive (whom I've posted here before) blew me away, as expected. They take a more jazz-oriented approach with a lot of time signature changes and intricate flows but are fundamentally about big, vocally-driven, soul. A friend made the comment that they are set up to be the new Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings. I don't disagree. The lead singer of the Violent Femmes came in with his new Cajun band, the Lost Bayou Ramblers and they did a couple of VF covers. I didn't care for them, much, but it was interesting at least. Lots of good stuff that I'm still digesting. Cheers, Judah On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for sharing. They are definitely not your old-time acoustic folk. > > I am checking out the lineup again, and seeing what I missed. > > I saw Pete Seeger on Colbert last night, and I think I am going to go > back through all my old folk and re-acquaint myself. > > Listening to Phil Ochs right now. > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: >> >> Just back from the Pickathon music festival and I had a grand old >> time. It was hot as hell and dusty but everyone was in good spirits >> and the music was excellent, morning to very very late at night. >> >> In that spirit, I'm kicking off New Music Tuesday again with a video I >> took (my first YouTube posting actually). Turns out the Samsung Galaxy >> SII does a surprisingly good job. Anyway, it's The Wood Brothers >> performing a new song called Honey Jar. They are at the appropriately >> named Wood Stage, which is nestled up in the woods on the farm, built >> in a little ravine on a summer-dry creek bed with an improvised branch >> canopy and about a thousand people in various parts of the tree-filled >> natural amphitheater. They Wood Brothers brought it hard. >> >> Honey Jar, Pickathon 2012: http://youtu.be/C1ti5mMecT4 >> >> Enjoy. >> >> Cheers, >> Judah >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353515 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
