Tuesday 16th to Sunday 21st March - Days 36 - 41
SXSW is hard. It's not like Glastonbury. You don't get to hang out in a field and get in touch with your inner hippy. You get to hang out with some older hippies and realise they look that bad because running around after music is hard. We took it easy this year. So we didn't see the 50+ or 70+ bands of previous years. We only saw the following bands. (Youtube links for the best ones.)
Brent Best
Lil Cap'n Travis
Glossary
The Atlas Moth
The Cardinal Health
Chip Robinson
Brent Best (again)
Javelina
Priestess
Wanda Jackson
Pink Nasty
Smokey Angel Shades
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
Billy Bragg
Middleman
Slow Club
The Crookes
Slow Club (again)
Pete Molinari
Quest For Fire
Bobby Bare Jr
The Wooden Birds
The Cave Singers
Centro-Matic
The Law
Twin Atlantic
Gadarene
Olivia Chaney
Jackie Oates
Trembling Bells
Jakob Dylan (with Neko Case & Kelly Hogan)
The Unthanks
Todd
Gina Villalobos and the Midnight Voices
The Waco Brothers
The Legendary Shack Shakers
Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express
Two Cow Garage
The Capstan Shafts
Through The Sparks
Best Coast
Slow Club (once again)
The Black Angels
And even though we took it real easy it still bloody hurt. It didn't help that we stayed in three hotels during the week but still... I am too old for this. My throat is hurting. It might be cancer. Well... it might be.
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Why are there so many songs about America? Come with us as we boldly go where so many songwriters have gone before as we do America by song and explore some of the musical myths and fables that try to define this young country. We don't need a guidebook, we have the songbook.
An obsessive trek into the self-obsessed American songbook
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I know I'm dreadfully late to reading this, but I'm so glad you got to see Chip Robinson. Chip, who for many years called Raleigh, NC home is one of this areas finest songwriters. Check out his former band, The Backsliders for proof of that. He's living in Brooklyn these days, but still makes it down to Raleigh for the odd show or three.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Kevin in NC