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A couple of weekends ago, I had a really fun experience. Perhaps you can relate…you’re watching a movie, and enjoying it. You hear the soundtrack, and think to yourself, “why do I know this music?!” In my case, the movie was Little Miss Sunshine, and the soundtrack music was largely written by a band called DeVotchka (or their lead singer, Nick Urata). It was not all that long ago that I blogged about seeing an unusual act at Bonnaroo…

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Steve Earle played on Sunday at one of the smaller venues at Bonnaroo. (I actually can’t believe I’m still writing about this, given that the event was this summer. I do have fresher material, believe it or not. We’ll get to it, promise.)

Steve started his set with a song called “F the CC”. You can find the lyrics
here. I’ll leave it to you to puzzle out what he’s saying in this photo:

A short way into his set, Steve mentioned (more…)

[insert various apologies, excuses, etc. for the great gap between posts]

OK, now that that’s overwith, let’s get down to it. Sunday was the last day of Bonnaroo, and as such, I was pretty fried. Sunday is the day people start leaving, and it seems that a lot of the “misc” acts of the festival get sent to Sunday. If you look at the number of pictures I took all day Sunday, you’ll also see an indication I was tired: there were just a couple of dozen, compared to literally hundreds on each day Friday and Saturday.

So I’ll start with the one picture that is maybe my favorite from the entire festival. I took it during Jerry Douglas’ set. Jerry is the fabulous dobro player who tours with Alison Krauss and Union Station. It kind of sums up the new culture of the camera phone…and how photos are now being used to document every moment of life. Lots of interesting philosophical discussions that I’m sure could be had around this topic, but for now I’ll just post the photo:

Stacy and I also went and (more…)