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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Monday, September 05, 2005

Bumbershoot - Day Three

Today was probably the best day for seeing music at this year's festival.

Bands Seen Today
Son Volt, Damien Jurado, Math and Physics Club, Mary Gauthier, Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter

Highlights

  • Damien Jurado - I heart Damien Jurado. If there is a more underrated musician in the music industry I can't think of one (though I grant you that if they're really underrated I may have never even heard of them making it unlikely I'd be able to think of them at this very moment as I type this entry...but I think you get my drift). Damien's set today was excellent as always mixing a nice blend of solo stuff with rocking out full-band style.
  • Mary Gauthier - Mary Gauthier wins the "Artist who I don't currently own any albums of but will soon" award this year. I swear she sounds like Lucinda. She played an excellent set at the Backyard Stage entertaining me to the point that I almost missed out on Damien Jurado because I didn't want to leave until she was done playing. Reader's Digest calls her 'America's Best About-to-Hit Country Star', and as you know if Reader's Digest says something it must be true.
Non-Music Highlights
  • Today was pretty much all music all the time, so I'm not sure I have a good non-musical highlight. We had a yummy dinner at Racha Thai after Son Volt...does that count?

posted by Jamie at 1:26 AM