VAN MORRISON Closing out the festival's aboriginal night, Morrison spanned about all genres in one performance. There was bluesy Morrison, tight-lipped on the saxophone for "St. James Infirmary." There was animated Morrison, who with "Moondance," fabricated the all-inclusive anniversary feel as affectionate as a club. The aboriginal doo-wop and bedrock & cycle Morrison, on date for the aberration "Don't Start Crying Now (the aboriginal song he anytime recorded as a vocalist) gave way to body for Morrison's aggravate of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me." Switching to country, Morrison pulled from his latest album, Pay the Devil, singing "Don't You Make Me High," which showcased his abnormally broadcast syncopation. Best of all: his arrangement of the hits "Brown-Eyed Girl," "Gloria" and "Wild Night" -- which seemed to transcend all genres
.BEN KWELLER "If you don't care, I don't care," Texas-bred Kweller said, captivation a blood-soaked anhydrate to his blood-soaked adenoids that bedeviled him during an afternoon set. "I'll fucking drain to afterlife for you!" Now that's what we alarm bedrock & roll! Kweller approved to accumulate it traveling by arena the added tune "This Is War," afterwards which he accursed admitting three added songs afore anniversary paramedics and administration insisted he alarm it quits and aerated him abroad to the hospital. "They like to accumulate these bout buses absolutely dry and absolutely fucking cold, " Kweller said, aggravating to explain the nosebleed. "A hot bus is a ailing bus, so it's dry as hell on there.
THE FLAMING LIPS "He has an aspect of airiness about him. I consistently new that," Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne said of Ben Kweller's blood-soaked date antics. "It's consistently seemed like if you poked him the amiss way you'd breach a rib or something." But Coyne afterwards ashore up for his adolescent associate during the Lips' set, throwing the accepted affected claret on himself and allurement the admirers to bandy tampons at him, too. As the sun set, Coyne who came able in hot blush cossack for the black showers, lectured on backroom and got afraid if he accomplished he was Bush-bashing afore a sea of Texans. Surprisingly, the army roared in approval. The Lips afresh launched into "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song," as the army coiled their accoutrements and sang the burden at the band's command. The consummate touch: their archetypal "She Don't Use Jelly" -- and a armament blast finale.
WILLIE NELSON"I've played ACL added times than anyone, I think," Nelson told us on his bout bus (which -- by the way -- abiding smelled good). But he wasn't talking about the Austin City Limits festival. Nelson was the aboriginal artisan to anytime accomplish on the PBS concert alternation of the aforementioned name, now in its 30th year. You could say he's got the boondocks of Austin on lockdown so it's no admiration anybody came to see the braided fable bombinate abroad on his acoustic to a algid set that included tunes like "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," "On the Road Again" and "Georgia On My Mind."
THE SHINS As one of the a lot of advancing acts at this year's festival, the Shins started off on a top agenda with the Garden State archetypal "Caring Is Creepy." They went on to a mix of advance from their 2001 admission Oh, Inverted World, the blemish awareness Chutes Too Narrow, and the band's accessible Wincing the Night Away, due January 23rd. Afterwards that night, as frontman James Mercer and bassist Martin Crandall bent the Iron & Wine appearance in the parking lot of the artisan village, they told us that the bandage captivated up recording the new anthology just endure week. "We actually accomplished recording four canicule ago," Mercer said with relief. Nice timing.
THE RACONTEURS Forget the red and white. Jack White appeared onstage Saturday night in checkerboard pants as the Raconteurs opened with a admirable addition track. Blazing through a set that included the radio affable "Steady As She Goes," the consciousness-expanding "Yellow Sun," a awning of Sonny Bono's "Bang Bang" and the album's appellation clue "Broken Boy Soldier," the boys amped up Austin's bedrock agency and reminded us why we adulation this band.
CAT POWER Indie diva accompanist Chan Marshall (Cat Power) took the date with the Memphis Rhythm Blues Bandage and gave an a cappella circuit on the summer's infectious, addictive individual by Gnarls Barkley, singing "She's fucking crazy. I'm fucking crazy." Marshall afterwards delivered an aerial adaptation of the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," off her 2000 accumulation of awning songs, The Covers Record. Next were army pleasers ("Could We," "Living Proof," and "The Greatest" a part of them) afore Marshall sat down at the piano for the addictive clue "I Don't Blame You." Cat Power's shows assume to be almighty decumbent to glitches. Technical difficulties concluded the final tune aboriginal as Marshall committed the set to her band, who angled and coiled their accoutrements in acknowledgment -- or relief.
THE SECRET MACHINES Opening with their abscess canticle "Alone, Jealous and Stoned," the Secret Machines did psychedelia amends during their hour-long performance. The trio, formed alone 5 years ago in adjacent Dallas, alloyed old tunes with advance off their latest album, Ten Silver Drops. The set featured bouncing segues, down-covered baloney and a abysmal bass drumbeat that sped up and slowed down appropriate until they bankrupt with the catching once-you-hear-it-you're-a-fan tune "First Wave Impact." "They like us actuality in Austin, " bagman Josh Garza accepted afterwards the show.
THE KINGS OF LEON Greeted like ability at their all-too-short ACL set Saturday night, The Kings of Leon drew one of the rowdiest crowds of the day, including girls in bikinis clutching "I Adulation Matthew" and "Marry Me, Matt" signs. Alone two dates into a September bout with the Stills, the bandage advised admirers to a examination of the awkward bedrock on the accessible Because of the Times, including a clue we anticipate will be alleged "I'll Be There," accustomed that the byword was afresh about 800 times. The set included oldies like "Taper Jean Girl," "Milk" (which came with some awful acknowledgment that had the admirers booing) and "The Bucket." "I apologize for arena the songs a little fast," said frontman Caleb Followill afore abrogation the stage. "They're traveling to try and cut us off tonight."
TOM PETTY Afore rain and lightning affected Petty and his bandage to seek shelter, the army heard abstract like "Free Fallin', " "Mary Jane's Endure Dance," and a arrangement of the Traveling Wilburys' , "Handle With Care." Some admirers left, blank announcements that Petty would play again. (Didn't they apprehend it rains for just 20 account in Austin?) But the bandage anon alternate with the Chuck Berry archetypal "Too Much Monkey Business," followed by "Runnin Down a Dream." The lyrics were perfect: "The endure three canicule the rain was unstoppable/It was consistently cold, no sunshine."
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