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Four days have been wiped from our lives, and we’d do it all again in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n
Starting last Thursday through Sunday we made some serious musical rounds, along the way sampling ridiculous amounts of the finest music that North America has to offer.<\/p>\n
Before heading up to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and breaking out to take in Arcade Fire at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theater, we kicked off the whirlwind with The Felice Brothers and Conor Oberst at the intimate Soho on Thursday (one of only four such shows on this mini-tour).\u00a0\u00a0 As we’ve said before<\/a>, we are huge fans of Mr. Oberst and his great songbook that’s laden with lyrical lagniappes.\u00a0 We’ve seen Conor in various band iterations at the Santa Barbara Bowl, the Arlington Theater, the Granada Theater, the Henry Fonda and the Echoplex, but never this close or in this small of a venue.\u00a0 He came out backed by the fab Felice Brothers, and laid it out for all to see.\u00a0 We were struck this time in particular by the darkness on the edge of his town, yet were buoyed once again by his passionate delivery and wondrous wordplay.\u00a0 We hope he finds what he’s looking for, on or off of his much-loved road.\u00a0 His set was bountiful (see the set list below), and while there were periods of mere plateau, there were also plenty of peaks along the way.\u00a0 Clear highlights of the evening were Lenders in the Temple, Cape Canaveral, We are Nowhere, Method Acting <\/em>and Lua<\/em> (one of the great, great songs of the American songbook).<\/p>\n Here is Lua <\/em>at Soho, accompanied by the multi-talented James Felice, and below that the heart-rending Poison Oak <\/em>as performed at the Casbah in San Diego:<\/p>\n