Today was pretty not too bad down at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Wandered around finding the stages, briefly saw both Nick Lowe and The Desert Rose Band. I settled at the Porch Stage to see a set from Joe Purdy (whose name I hadn’t heard but who has had songs on House and Lost (he’s who Hurley is listening to on the beach in this scene from season one). Overall though, Purdy’s great live though a touch heavy on geographic nostalgia.
Dave Alvin has got the best concept in the business working – he’s surrounded himself with an all-female backing band (”The Guilty Women”) of mostly Austin players. I tried to count them all but it kept changing, somewhere between eight and seventeen musicians. As long as we’re doing soundtracks, Quentin Tarantino used Dave’s old band (The Blasters) song ‘Dark Night’ in From Dusk Till Dawn. In the clip below that song’s been dubbed over various wrong parts of that movie. It’s definitely not the song being played during the infamous Salma Hayek snake dance scene, that’s Austin’s Tito & Tarantula, though points for whoever cut this to make it look like a match.
Oh. Also saw part of Robert Earl Keen to continue my efforts of making up for sets missed at ACL, though it was getting dark and cold and about time to go watch the Cubs get knocked out of the playoffs so wasn’t so much into that.
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