Last night I was privileged to be able to go to Cincinnati with a great friend to the Friday night installment of the Music Now Festival. The lineup consisted of Ymusic, Shara Worden and "Sounds of the South". I was actually not familiar with any of these artists but Justin Vernon was playing as a guest of "Sounds of the South" so I decided to go. I was able to see Justin Vernon solo last year at the Music Now festival and it was one of the most incredible live performances I have ever seen.
Even though I went last night with little expectations I have to say that all three of the Acts blew me away and made for an exceptional night. However "Sounds of the South" really stood out to me and was a great experience to watch. The bands Megafaun and Fight the Big Bull were joined by Justin Vernon and Sharon Van Etten in order to perform reinterpretations of songs from the "sounds of the south" box set put together in 1961 by Alan Lomax. It was a pretty magical interpretation of these old American blues songs, mixing the very folksy Megafaun with the Jazzy Fight the Big Bull with the beautiful voices of Justin Vernon and Sharon Van Etten made very original renditions.
Overall I was blown away by the quality of music that was produced by these musicians. There were parts that were sort of avant-garde and I felt like they just didn't work but when it did work it was soul at it's finest.
Heres a video I found on youtube of one of the songs:
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