This year's Farm Aid festival will be at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin, today, Saturday, September 21.
The festival lineup will feature performances by Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, as well as Bonnie Raitt, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Margo Price, Jamey Johnson, Tanya Tucker, Brothers Osborne, Yola, and Particle Kid. Click here for Farm Aid 2019 details.
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Sure everybody noticed that – according to Sugar Mountain statistics – this year Neil Young played more different songs than in all previous years of his performing career. 112 songs in 28 shows. He tops his 1988 record of 104 songs in a year. I am not sure what this means -- it’s only statistics, right? -- but at least it serves to demonstrate how versatile Young is, how much he continues to explore the nooks and crannies of his musical archive, and how much his recent strategy of doing short stints with various (or no) accompanying players is reflected in his song selections. Apparently, this enables him to dig up different songs for each stint and even each concert, according to mood and taste. The amazing thing is also that he does not stick to the old stuff, but mixes his new songs in, searching for balance in his performance and blending the new with the old. He always has done that, so there is nothing new here. But it is spectacular that a singer and composer who has been around for more than 50 years still demonstrates the vitality of breaking new grounds, confronting his audiences with new songs and revitalized old songs. And he takes full advantage not only of having this huge reservoir of songs, but also of this new touring dynamic (or decreasing touring energy). What a way to grow older as a performing artist…
ReplyDeleteSuch an excellent point Minke.
ReplyDeleteWe'll have more to come on yesterday's Farm Aid.
But 1st, thrashette and I must recover after rolling in at 3 AM and multiple 18 hour plus days. No complaints here.
We are the lucky ones to have our FarmAidian friends, like Paul and Renee.
Not much love going on here for the Farm Aid show. Could be a lack of television coverage. YouTube was showing it live, but I wasn't aware of that. I did happen to luckily catch "Roll Another Number", which unfortunately might have been the worst I have ever heard from Neil and POTR, just a horrible version. I've heard from other sources that the RITFW was a scorcher, though.
ReplyDeleteNeil & POTR's Farm Aid set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQfi5WfpJrM
ReplyDeleteSecond tune is Workin Man & it sounds GREAT!
it was a pretty good set. started mellow with "are you ready for the country". "workin' man" was a nice treat, and harkened back to the farm aid performance from 2015. the mini acoustic set was a crowd pleaser, and "throw your hatred down" had some great solos. "ritfw" was predictable bombastic. and about "roll another number"...what an odd choice to follow "ritfw". it really seemed to suck the life right out of the crowd. you could tell neil sort of realized it was a dumb choice, but then he went all in. it was a shambolic, weird, and ultimately triumphant finale.
ReplyDeleteain't shilling for thrasher....