{"id":6858,"date":"2011-09-26T06:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T06:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:07:09","slug":"bright-eyes-last-week-in-austin-lua-and-wrecking-ball-with-gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-09\/bright-eyes-last-week-in-austin-lua-and-wrecking-ball-with-gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Eyes Last Week in Austin&#8211;&#8220;Lua&#8221; and &#8220;Wrecking Ball&#8221; With Gillian Welch and David Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were bowled over yet again at the <strong>Santa Barbara Bowl<\/strong> last night by the brilliant<strong> Bright Eyes<\/strong>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll write about tonight&#8217;s show soon, but in the meantime check out <strong>Bright Eyes, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings<\/strong> and a hardy singalong-crowd at\u00a0<strong>Stubb&#8217;s in Austin<\/strong> last week slaying <em><strong>Lua<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Conor left out the luscious <em>Lua <\/em>tonight (though they gave us powerfully poignant versions of <em><strong>Poison Oak <\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong> Ladder Song<\/strong><\/em>), so we&#8217;ll fill the <em>Lua <\/em>void with the fine version below from Austin.\u00a0 Listen in to <strong>Nate Walcott&#8217;s <\/strong>horn play interlaced beautifully with <strong>Rawlings&#8217; <\/strong>standard, <strong>soul-arch guitar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bright Eyes and Gillian Welch perform &quot;Lua&quot; at Stubb&#039;s in Austin, 9\/17\/18\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PGiuRX-pFrE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And then check a superb rendering by <strong>Bright Eyes, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings<\/strong> and <strong>Laura Burhenn<\/strong> (of <strong>Mynabirds<\/strong> fame) of Welch&#8217;s <em><strong>Wrecking Ball<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Conor and Burhenn gave a great reading tonight at the Bowl, but the version below from Stubb&#8217;s sets the bar ridiculously high, with Gillian&#8217;s sonorous singing and Rawlings elevating on electric guitar and vocals. \u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bright Eyes and Gillian Welch perform &quot;Wrecking Ball&quot; at Stubb&#039;s in Austin, 9\/17\/11\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAl1psyqU-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were bowled over yet again at the Santa Barbara Bowl last night by the brilliant Bright Eyes.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll write about tonight&#8217;s show soon, but in the meantime check out Bright Eyes, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings and a hardy singalong-crowd at\u00a0Stubb&#8217;s in Austin last week slaying Lua.\u00a0 Conor left out the luscious Lua tonight (though [&hellip;]<\/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-6858","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\/6858","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=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}