Just came back from The Austin City Limits Festival and...whoa Nellie!! My Lord that was one Hell of an event. So many stories and things to report that I'm gonna have to strecth this out for a bit.
Highlights of ACL: Trent Summar was off the hook; Steve Earle was as great as you'd expect; Jesse Malin was better than you'd expect; Damien Rice was as annoying as you'd expect; Pete Yorn was about what you'd expect; Crowded House was beyond expectations. And then there was Yap Mamma(or as she came to be known: Shut Yer Yap,Mamma) and M.I.A.(if only I could make that happen).
I thought that the best festival I would ever attend was The New Orleans Heritage and Jazz Festival...until I went to The ACL. And I haven't even begun to tell you about seeing Ian McLagan at happy hour at The Lucky Lounge,going to see Crowded House in Atlanta with Rick Richards, his wife(Lori Lee), Jack Cornell and his daughter,Jennifer,playing 2 acoustic sets at Slim's Downtown the preceding weekend,meeting a great artist in Austin from whom I bought a great portrait of Keith Richards that is going to adorn the walls of my Raleigh home away from home(and who I'm gonna talk to about maybe one day doing artwork for my little recording hobbie), getting pulled over by the Austin Police-just so they could tell me that they were not pulling me over,meeting up with my buddies from Canada, meeting their friends who owned 2 of the stages that were being used for the festival and getting a pre-opening day night time tour of all the stages as they were being lit up and put through dry runs the night before the festival began;getting free ticket anywhere Air Tran flies because their agent was way rude to me....wait-there's more-but I gotta sit down....
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Thank you, Chris, for tipping me off that Palo Duro records' web site had picked up my blog entry and for putting a link to this blog. I went to the site and encourage both of the 12 year old,lost web surfers and my business partner's lawyers(the only folks who read this blog)to do likewise. It's a great site and the other artists on the label look to be right up my musical alley. I also feel appropriately ashamed for slagging the great state of Texas. For every "Dubbya",EXXON and ENRON it's given us, there is a Steve Earle,Towns Van Zant and Molly Ivans to make up for it. So thanks again,I'm sorry and rock the F on!
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