The day opened with a strong and plenty humid set from Jacksonville, Fla. The ultra-dependable Lucinda Williams tried out a number of seriously countrified new tracks on her Friday audience; Austin's own Spoon unfurled their set to the rapturous hometown crowd.
And for some pre-evening goodness, the peerless John Prine delivered the perfect sundown set, which drew liberally from his exquisite new "Fair and Square. This was the opposite of the tack taken by Steve Earle, who, like a good number of acts, took shots at same, airing out the reggae gag "Condi Condi" and beckoning fans to the next day's anti-war rally in D. Saturday brought a bit of lineup shuffling; Tracy Bonham stepped in to open the day on the AMD stage, recruiting members of Aqualung for her violin-addled confessionals and a ragged cover of "Black Dog" whose slapdashness was completely ingratiating, somehow.
Sadly, Built To Spill was a disappointing snore and a half. Doug Martsch's shoegazing comes off OK in clubs, but during a sweltering afternoon it's just boring. Surprisingly effective to that end was Martin Sexton, who did his Jack Johnson-with-a-smirking-groove thing to a large and receptive crowd.
Saturday closed with a typically workmanlike and inspired performance from the Drive-By Truckers, whose Patterson Hood drove the band nonstop through newer tracks like the once-again-timely "Puttin' People on the Moon" and time-tested rockers like the Dixie-rock history lesson "Ronnie and Neil.
Headlining on the other side of the slope was Oasis, who largely phoned in its oddly ragged set, though things picked up during a rubbery "Lyla" and a soaring "Live Forever," dedicated by Liam Gallagher to New Orleans.
As could be expected, a number of acts did the same for the Crescent City and the Gulf Coast: Earle rocked through "Home to Houston" and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band amassed such a massive throng on the smaller Capital Metro stage that they were often invisible.
Day three of the festival proved a record setting one. Not because of the music, but the mercury -- afternoon temperatures hit a sandal-frying degrees.
Appealing girl group Eisley opened the day by thanking the healthy crowd that stuck around for its pretty, dreamy pop; Coldplay's Chris Martin closed it by thanking the 60, who caught the Brits' headlining set in song -- a smart move that was theatrical enough to make one wonder if it was Gwyneth's idea.
Rachael Yamagata's dark and musty voice snuggled nicely into her rocked-up arrangements, particularly on theatrically tinged tracks like "Happenstance," where she came off as a more muscular Fiona Apple. Doves and Rilo Kiley drew slots playing under the right-overhead sun, but the latter especially drove through on goodwill anyway.
Undaunted by the giant crowd amassed before them, the Fire lived up to every last syllable of their press barrage, presenting a unified wall of sound that managed to be moody and melancholy one minute and wildly inspirational the next. At the very least, more people in Austin probably are. The draw of fests like these is the ability to see loads of bands at the same time; the drawback is that sometimes Wilco and Franz Ferdinand are playing at the same time a half-mile away from each other.
Jeff Tweedy and his band opened with a raucous "Kingpin" that found the unusually high-spirited frontman baiting the crowd into whooing like a well, heavy metal drummer. Which is, of course, the approach taken by headliners Coldplay, but the erstwhile Brits did the rarest thing: a minute hit-laden tour de force that justified its astounding hype. In fact, the band's only misstep was its black wardrobe, leading Martin to wish his band was more like Velvet Revolver, where "shirts are optional.
Even a tribute to Johnny Cash, which climaxed in a well-intentioned crowd singalong to "Ring of Fire" came off well. Coldplay's records, for all their costly megaproduction, tend to come off chilly, but Martin, who was born to stand in front of audiences like this, was equal parts deferential and messianic, a near-perfect end to a heated weekend. Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Rachael Yamagata [Live].
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