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Bonnaroo scene report #4
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It’s probably hard to freak out producer Don Was, but when Robert Earl Keen opened his set Sunday with an amazing version of “White Room” by Cream, Was had to make sure he wasn’t hearing things.
Was had just played a set on bass with Todd Snider that was alternately hilarious, tender, angry and sane. With just Snider’s acoustic guitar and Was’ standup bass, the duo had every hand in the air at “This Tent” during “Stuck On the Corner,” with it’s “Hell, Yeah” crowd response.
Snider did some new songs from the album “The Excitement Plan,” with a tune about Dock Ellis pitching a no-hitter on LSD in 1970 resonating especially.
Keen joined Snider on the latter’s “Corpus Christi Bay,” which is on Snider’s new album. It’s a song about giving into the elements, which seemed well-placed on this final day of the country’s biggest, craziest music fest.
Right now, Erykah Badu is making it hard to write, not just because the bass is making my laptop vibrate. Sounds like she’s really fired up- and so is the crowd- so let’s see if I can get some of that.
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