I went to see The Bottle Rockets at the Old Settlers Music
Festival in April, 2012. I guess you could say I paid $80 to see this
band. They were the main reason I even went to the festival. It was the
lead singer that told me that night that Levon Helm had just passed
away. They sang a Texas Tornadoes song for us Texans. Whoa! Am I a
Texan, now? That's weird. Yeah, it was great. They came on right after
Spacegrass w/ Tony Trischka played. The
other acts following... I honestly can't even remember. I just remember a
lot of beer and porta potties... Oh and a lot of rich people letting
their hair down. I'll probably never go back to that festival. It's too
expensive and it's gotten way too big. It used to be so much more
intimate. It's where my daughter used to run and play in the creek with
the other kids, but now they've blocked the creek off. She used to make
little banjos and corn husk dolls, she even walked right backstage and
chatted it up with Del McCoury and his sons. What an adventurous little
girl she was. Anyway, the night ended with Iron & Wine, and the
lead singer came out and sang an acapella number all by himself. There
he was one man who brought this whole huge mass of people to silence,
and all you could hear was his voice and crickets. It was quiet
powerful. I watched their first 2 songs then I left. Eh. Iron &
Wine, not so much my thing. But the Bottle Rockets, oh yeah, they were
well worth it.
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