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ACL Fest: Meet the Bands - The Band of Heathens
As this summer of blistering heat drags along with no end in sight, the September sweatfest that is ACL Fest creeps ever closer. Once again, we’ve sent out an email questionaire to artists playing the festival to help you get to know them a little better.
Artist:The Band of Heathens
Hometown: Austin
MySpace: myspace.com/thebandofheathens
Music Source: How do you plan to cope with Austin summer heat? Will it cramp your onstage style?
Ed Jurdi, Heathen: We’ve already cramped our onstage style with the finest out of style clothing and accessories available so we’ve rendered the heat issue null and void. Although, we’ve issued a band edict to no longer wear flip-flops on stage, but I think we’ve already had several cases of mutiny on the bunion.
What other bands are you looking forward to seeing at the festival?
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, The Raconteurs, Iron and Wine, Beck, Patty Griffin, Robert Earl Keen, Gillian Welch, M Ward, Dan Dyer, Drive By Truckers, Galactic and too many others to list.
What’s the last CD you paid full price for?
Al Green- “Lay it Down” (On iTunes) Jerrry Garcia- “Garcia” (At Waterloo, an actual CD)
What’s the one thing you can’t live without on your tour bus/van?
Little bags of goodies. They have lots of Airborne and Emergen-C in them.
When you think of Texas music, who or what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, T-Bone Walker.
Do you have a celebrity crush you’re willing to reveal?
Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music. Princess Grace of Monaco was pretty spectacular even when she was just plain old Grace Kelly
What’s the one song you’ve always wanted to cover but never have?
The Entire Medley on side two of “Abbey Road,” starting with “Sun King” and ending with “The End.” That’s really just one great (expletive) song.
What’s the one thing everyone should do before leaving Austin?
Go see Heybale at The Continental (on the last Sunday of the month if possible) it will blow your mind. Everytime.
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