Tag: Live at Lucky Barn

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: The Weather Station, ‘Like Sisters’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series.

The final episode from the Spring season of the Lucky Barn Series finds the Weather Station working through the haunting "Like Sisters" and pushing the boundaries of folk music in all the right ways. As the musical moniker of Canadian singer/songwriter Tamara Lindeman, the Weather Station has been warmly embraced by critics and listeners, alike. And this tune evidences why, in lyrics like "When she moved out, sometimes he’d call me, I never should have answered. Sometimes you give, you’re giving all you have, and sometimes you’re the taker. Like the whole world went and slipped my way, and yet I didn’t want nothing so unequal. Like unearned praise, like someone I don’t recognise was looking back from my own eyes." More, please.

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, from August 5-7, 2016. Recent additions to the festival lineup include Mac DeMarco, King Sunny Ade, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Joseph, Ry X, Cory Henry, Promised Land Sound, Town Mountain, Myke Bogan, Blossom, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Open Mike Eagle, and Chanti Darling. Tickets and the full lineup are available now. The live stream will be available here on the BGS beginning Friday.

Click here for more, and stay tuned for another wonderful season of Lucky Barn videos. 

Photo credit: Bill Purcell

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Edna Vazquez featuring Luz Elena Mendoza, ‘Por Un Amor’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

The penultimate episode from the Spring season of the Lucky Barn Series features Edna Vazquez accompanied by Luz Elena Mendoza. With a battered gut-string guitar and captivating Spanish-language vocals, the two meander through "Por Un Amor." Explaining her songwriting process, Vazquez tells a story from when she was eight years old. Her grandfather told her that, when she gets scared, she can whistle. So she did, mimicking songs she heard along the way and, eventually, capturing her own melodies. "I let out the music I have inside through the whistle," she says.

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, from August 5-7, 2016. Recent additions to the festival lineup include Mac DeMarco, King Sunny Ade, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Joseph, Ry X, Cory Henry, Promised Land Sound, Town Mountain, Myke Bogan, Blossom, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Open Mike Eagle, and Chanti Darling. Tickets and the full lineup are available now.

Click here for more, and stay tuned for another wonderful season of Lucky Barn videos. 

Photo credit: Drew Bandy

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: The Quebe Sisters, ‘Every Which-a-Way’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

The fourth episode from the Spring season of the Lucky Barn Series showcases the Quebe Sisters. Fiddle trios have a long history in roots music — one these sisters are daring to revisit while putting their three-part, sibling-sweet harmonies on top, to boot. But long before sharing stages with legends like George Strait, Willie Nelson, Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, and Connie Price, the Quebe Sisters — Hulda, Sophia, and Grace  — got inspired by kids their age at a fiddle competition and started fiddling at the relatively young ages of 7, 10, and 12. Some 18 years later, it's safe to say they have a knack for it.

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, from August 5-7, 2016. Recent additions to the festival lineup include Mac DeMarco, King Sunny Ade, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Joseph, Ry X, Cory Henry, Promised Land Sound, Town Mountain, Myke Bogan, Blossom, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Open Mike Eagle, and Chanti Darling. Tickets and the full lineup are available now.

Click here for more, and stay tuned for another wonderful season of Lucky Barn videos. 

Photo credit: Copeland Turner

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Little Freddie King, ‘Tough Frog to Swallow’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

The third episode from the Spring season of the Lucky Barn Series features blues man Little Freddie King rumbling and rocking through "Tough Frog to Swallow." After pulling off a leg split that would make Chuck Berry proud, King talks about the first records he ever bought: Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and Albert King. Of emulating Hopkins, King says, "I couldn't play just like him, but I loved his style … I got pretty close to him, but I couldn't reach him."

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, from August 5-7, 2016. Recent additions to the festival lineup include Mac DeMarco, King Sunny Ade, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Joseph, Ry X, Cory Henry, Promised Land Sound, Town Mountain, Myke Bogan, Blossom, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Open Mike Eagle, and Chanti Darling. Tickets and the full lineup are available now.

Click here for more, and stay tuned for another wonderful season of Lucky Barn videos. 

Photo credit: Todd Cooper

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Sam Amidon, ‘Way Go Lily’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

The second video from the Spring season of the Lucky Barn Series features alt-folkster Sam Amidon who recruits the crowd to sing along with him on "Way Go Lily." Amidon comes by his folkiness honestly — from two parents who traveled the same path before him — and started playing fiddle when he was a three-year-old growing up in Vermont. Somewhere along the way, he wandered over to guitar and began reimagining classic songs with contemporary twists.

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, from August 5-7, 2016. Recent additions to the festival lineup include Mac DeMarco, King Sunny Ade, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Joseph, Ry X, Cory Henry, Promised Land Sound, Town Mountain, Myke Bogan, Blossom, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Open Mike Eagle, and Chanti Darling. Tickets and the full lineup are available now.

Click here for more, and stay tuned for another wonderful season of Lucky Barn videos. 

Photo credit: Miri Stebivka

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Ernest Ranglin, ‘Congoman Chant’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

The first installment for the Spring season of the Lucky Barn Series comes from Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin. Known for his work with reggae legends like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff, Ranglin steps out with his own band of hotshots — horns and all! — for "Congoman." At the 3:45 mark, he tosses his pick and starts … well, see for yourself.

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, from August 5-7, 2016. Recent additions to the festival lineup include Mac DeMarco, King Sunny Ade, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Joseph, Ry X, Cory Henry, Promised Land Sound, Town Mountain, Myke Bogan, Blossom, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Open Mike Eagle, and Chanti Darling. Tickets and the full lineup are available now.

Click here for more, and stay tuned for another wonderful season of Lucky Barn videos. 

Photo credit: Tobin Copeland Turner

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: William Tyler, ‘Missionary Ridge’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

The final installment for the Winter season of the Lucky Barn Series comes from guitarist/composer William Tyler. On "Missionary Ridge," Tyler lays an easy, finger-picked foundation that lulls the listeners right along. But, then, around four-and-a-half minutes in, the proverbial boots come out and he kicks up a storm before settling the dust back down to close out the tune.

"I started playing, when I was very young, with a band called Lambchop," Tyler says, giving some background on his career. "That just shifted my whole attitude about music … It was like bootcamp in a cerebral indie rock band." Eventually, though, he taught himself how to compose for solo guitar and set out on his own as an instrumentalist, harkening back to his love of lyric-less classical music. "Also, I don't write good words," he notes.

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, from August 5-7, 2016. Click here for more, and stay tuned for an exciting season of Lucky Barn videos.

Photo credit: Miri Stebivka

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Nathan Bowles

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

Number five in the Lucky Barn Series comes courtesy of Nathan Bowles and his banjo. On "I Miss My Dog," Bowles sets a slow, sparse pace that does, indeed, mirror longing and loss. A few minutes in, a gentle playfulness emerges and gradually builds to a rousing climax before settling back down after nearly 11 minutes. He goes on to talk about how repetition is "built into the clawhammer style."

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, from August 5-7, 2016. Click here for more, and stay tuned for an exciting season of Lucky Barn videos.

Photo credit: Nehemiah Sliwoski

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Dom Flemons, ‘Going Down the Road Feeling Bad’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

In the third video of the series, Dom Flemons and his trusty sidekicks lead the Lucky Barn crowd in a sing-along of "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad." Flemons dubs himself an "American songster" and explains that "before we starting making records, as a culture, songsters were the musicians that knew a bunch of songs and would play them for the community." (He also jokes about "folk" being a four-letter word.) In his plaid shirt and porkpie hat, Flemons lives up to that self-designated title and lets everyone stretch their wings a little bit on this one, with a fierce fiddle run, a bouncing brush breakdown, and a clap-powered chorus. 

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon from August 5-7, 2016. Click here for more, and stay tuned for an exciting season of Lucky Barn videos.

Photo credit: Anthony Pidgeon

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Billy Strings & Don Julin, ‘Meet Me at the Creek’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

For the second installment of Live at Lucky Barn from Pickathon 2015, Billy Strings and Don Julin team up to play the hell out of "Meet Me at the Creek." The two spend a good chunk of the eight-minute performance trading licks. After the tune, Strings talks about how he started out playing bluegrass as a kid, but then he got an electric guitar when he was 11 or 12. "I had played bluegrass all my life and I really wanted to play with people my age, so I started playing with friends and people from my school," Strings says, adding, "and they were playing heavy metal and really heavy stuff." Eventually, though he dug back into his roots.

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon from August 5-7, 2016. Click here for more, and stay tuned for an exciting season of Lucky Barn videos.

Photo credit: Dylan WanWeelden