{"id":3179,"date":"2012-10-18T05:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T09:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2024-01-10T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:14:02","slug":"concert-review-yep-roc-15-night-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/18\/concert-review-yep-roc-15-night-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Review: Yep Roc 15, Night #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like the first two nights of Yep Roc 15, the third and final night was loosely organized around a theme. Consistent with the previous nights, the proceedings \u2013 again ably and winningly emceed by John Wesley Harding<\/strong> \u2013 got underway right on schedule.<\/p>\n

\"\"This night’s theme was Americana, and in light of that, my comments on some performers will be perfunctory.<\/p>\n

Darren Hanlon<\/strong> describes himself (joking only slightly) as an “Australiana” artist. His was an acoustic set. Jim White<\/strong> is from the storytelling school of country\/folk, and he leavened his set with humor. Tift Merritt<\/strong> has the range and ability to transcend genres (as she illustrated later in the evening when she joined John Doe<\/strong>) but her own set stayed mostly within the confines of honky-tonk c&w. Chatham County Line<\/strong> are high-energy fiddle-n-banjo bluegrass, and the group has a distinctive visual image: they crowd around a single vocal mic, a la a vintage radio broadcast. They, too, had a bit of humor, and a couple cover songs applied their style to well-loved songs from other genres.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Minus 5<\/strong>‘s set broke up the long parade of acoustic performers. The band is known for its revolving lineup, and on this night there was no Peter Buck<\/strong>. But leader Scott McCaughey<\/strong> and his band tore through a bunch of songs with fervor.<\/p>\n

\"\"When John Doe walked onstage with an acoustic guitar, I began to squirm in my seat a bit: five acoustic acts in an evening is simply too many for this reviewer. But Doe’s hard-hitting style applied a rock sensibility to his solo acoustic songs. Moreover, he switched over to a solidbody electric for about half of his set, and showed that an electric guitarist need not have a band behind him to rock out. With Tift Merritt adding vocal harmonies on some numbers, the result was one of the evening’s high points.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Sadies<\/strong> closed the entire event in style. Bedecked in their Nudie’s-style c&w finery, they brought their brand of spaghetti-western-meets-garage to the show in what has to have been one of the most exciting sets of the entire event. Guitar pyrotechnics from brothers Travis and Dallas Good<\/strong> enlivened the group,s short, snappy songs, and their vocal harmonies proved that there’s plenty of rock’n’roll in country (and vice versa). Goaded on by a particularly, um, spirited attendee, the band launched into a cover of Love<\/strong>‘s \u201cA House is Not a Motel,\u201d and brought John Doe and Scott McCaughey back to ratchet the excitement up a few more notches. For an encore, the group pulled out a bunch of garage nuggets, stringing them together into one long suite. The way they tossed out these oft-forgotten gems, one was left with the impression that they could have gone on doing this all night. Theirs was a thrilling and fitting end of Yep Roc 15.<\/p>\n

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