Gillian Welch and David Rawlings — Folks Festival, August 17, 2007 - Lyons, Colorado

Author : naomi
19 08 2007

Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado, August 2007“This is a really big deal for us” she confided, midway through their set on the first day of this year’s Folks Festival. “We’ve never been the closing act at a music festival.”

This was after we had abandoned our tarp and moved to the front, to get away from the talking mommies in the back. It was a good move. In front, the crowd wasn’t talking. In fact, between songs, and after the loud applause died down, mostly what we could hear were the crickets chirping, such was the level of the concentration by the crowd with respect to what was happening on stage. Read the rest of this entry »



What Light?

Author : jitter
28 07 2007

My favorite track from Wilco’s “Sky Blue Sky” (and one that hasn’t found it’s way to a VW ad, yet)…



Stalking Todd Snider

Author : jitter
21 07 2007

Don’t you just hate it when one person has to ruin it for everybody?

I’m sure it was nothing, probably just a fan who wanted to ask Todd Snider to play a favorite song. Or something.

But she definitely took the wrong approach Friday night at The Sons Of Hermann Hall. Read the rest of this entry »



The Blog is Back!

Author : slacker
20 07 2007

Well, sort of.

We’re still kind of working on making it look the way we want it to.

In the meantime, please use the links above to get to our recent reviews. Or send us a comment. Or something.