{"id":4577,"date":"2011-04-19T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2011-04-20T02:06:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T02:06:35","slug":"mumford-and-sons-at-the-santa-barbara-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-04\/mumford-and-sons-at-the-santa-barbara-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumford and Sons at the Santa Barbara Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos by Lefort<\/h6>\n

The great young British band, Mumford and Sons<\/strong>, came to the sanctuary of the hallowed Santa Barbara Bowl<\/strong> last night and tantalized the crowd with its tent show revival.\u00a0 They played with infectious joy and it wasn’t long before that fecund rapture raised the crowd right out of their seats.\u00a0 The band was in constant movement and played as if end times were upon us.<\/p>\n

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Though there was only occasional drumming (several times played well by leader, Marcus Mumford, as seen below on Lover of the Light), <\/em>the band pounded out a relentless beat interspersed with dynamic downshifts, only to shift back up to stomp-down.\u00a0 Winston Marshall banged and body-rolled his banjo, Ted Dwayne beat up the bottom end on bass, the three-horns hectored, and Ben Lovett played the keys with flair and an unflappable smile.<\/p>\n

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But if there’s one image that captures the Mumford experience, it’s of Marcus strumming his guitar at the speed of sound to propel the proceedings.\u00a0 It brings the house down every time.<\/p>\n

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The band repeatedly lauded the Santa Barbara Bowl<\/strong> and Santa Barbara, and they’ll be back.\u00a0 Don’t miss it next time.<\/p>\n

Below is the long setlist (they claimed their longest ever<\/strong>), which included a bunch of new songs and an Old Crow Medicine Show cover.<\/p>\n

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If you weren’t there, below is a good sample of the Mumfords live from Coachella on Saturday.\u00a0 Check out Little Lion Man, The Cave <\/strong><\/em>(typical set closer), and great new song Lover of the Light.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l2HD6hNNCNs&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gFOWlSCwRDs<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wRhqqTP8rJs&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL<\/p>\n

As for The Tallest Dylan Impersonator<\/strong> we’ll have to admit that he presents himself better live than on record.\u00a0 He’s a very adept finger-picking guitar player and has some interesting things to sing.\u00a0 And he covered John Hartford’s oft-covered (most famously by Glen Campbell) chestnut, Gentle on My Mind. <\/em>We just wish we hadn’t heard it all before by the master himself.\u00a0 TMOE should invite that stellar female harmonist on stage more often.\u00a0 With some added elements and some Dylan-downplay he could grow a bit.<\/p>\n

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Finally, we admit that we were one-upped last night<\/strong> by a couple of enterprising lasses (Hannah and Chloe) <\/strong>who, at the end of the Mumfords last song, literally ran to their car and (carefully) raced out to UCSB to catch Ellie Goulding’s <\/strong>show at the UCenn.\u00a0 Rave reviews followed.\u00a0 Hats off on the Double<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photos by Lefort The great young British band, Mumford and Sons, came to the sanctuary of the hallowed Santa Barbara Bowl last night and tantalized the crowd with its tent show revival.\u00a0 They played with infectious joy and it wasn’t long before that fecund rapture raised the crowd right out of their seats.\u00a0 The band […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}