{"id":8150,"date":"2011-11-19T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2011-11-24T00:33:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T00:33:36","slug":"okkervil-river-the-end-of-the-road-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-11\/okkervil-river-the-end-of-the-road-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Okkervil River&#8211;The End of the Road Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8151\" title=\"tumblr_lrj53q0PdC1qfzit3o1_500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lrj53q0PdC1qfzit3o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lrj53q0PdC1qfzit3o1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lrj53q0PdC1qfzit3o1_500-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lrj53q0PdC1qfzit3o1_500-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelineofbestfit.com\/\"><strong>Line of Best Fit<\/strong> <\/a>captured <strong>Okkervil River&#8217;s<\/strong> charming recent performance (in a dry-docked wooden sailboat no less) of their heart-wrenching and masterful song, <strong>Love to a Monster<\/strong> (a bonus track off of 2007&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>The Stage Names<\/strong>&#8221; album), at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endoftheroadfestival.com\/\"><strong>The End of the Road Festival<\/strong><\/a> in Dorset, England.\u00a0 Check out the performance below and the well-wrought lyrics after.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Okkervil River - Love to a Monster (Live Session)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DeFdvnqglrY?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>&#8220;Lover, now that you&#8217;ve left me, I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re unlovely.<br \/>\n\u2018Cause if you could take all the heat in your heart and just hang it from you,<br \/>\nI wouldn&#8217;t be able to bear the way you cannot love me.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s much easier of me to make a monster out of you.<\/p>\n<p>And so here I go, substituting the glow from your temples,<br \/>\nall our sighs and our trembles, and each last letter sent you<br \/>\nfrom the cheap little pen of this weak little man<br \/>\nthe one singing &#8211; out his jangling, ringing<br \/>\nand hopefully stinging attack upon you.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so here I go, just exploding the hope we&#8217;ll be speaking<br \/>\nsome day, years from now, seeking friendship and understanding.<br \/>\nYeah, I hope you get angry, and hurt, and have the hardest of landings.<br \/>\nAnd I hope your new man thinks of me when he sees what a number I did on you.<br \/>\nCome on boys.<\/p>\n<p>I grow tired of this song. Turn my eyes<br \/>\nto the blonde in the bleachers.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a lovely young creature.<br \/>\nI think she&#8217;s seeking adventure.<br \/>\nI think she&#8217;s ready to see that the world ain&#8217;t so sweet nor so tender.<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t break her, just bend her, and make her into my new ringer for you.<\/p>\n<p>I stay in the same comfy town, write the same old songs down, drive the same streets,<br \/>\nseek the same sense of dull peace, whisper the same sweet words to the chippies.<br \/>\nThe same walk by the road where the same muddy snow&#8217;s finally leaving,<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll fight off the spring; I don&#8217;t want lovely things,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want the earth new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For obvious reasons<\/strong>, the performance above reminded us of <strong>Lyle Lovett&#8217;s<\/strong> great song, <em><strong>If I Had a Boat<\/strong><\/em>, which you can check out below (as introduced by <strong>John Prine<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Prine introduces Lyle Lovett - If I had a boat\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_G5Tt4AHVTI?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 here&#8217;s another version of <strong><em>Love to a Monster<\/em><\/strong> on <strong>A Takeaway Show<\/strong> segment filmed on the banks of the Seine River in Paris:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x8udo\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x8udo_6-2-okkervil-river-love-to-a-monst_creation\" target=\"_blank\"># 6.2- Okkervil River-Love to a monster<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/lablogotheque\" target=\"_blank\">lablogotheque<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Line of Best Fit captured Okkervil River&#8217;s charming recent performance (in a dry-docked wooden sailboat no less) of their heart-wrenching and masterful song, Love to a Monster (a bonus track off of 2007&#8217;s &#8220;The Stage Names&#8221; album), at The End of the Road Festival in Dorset, England.\u00a0 Check out the performance below and the [&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-8150","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\/8150","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=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}