The embrace was even tighter: there was no room for worldly concerns. The atmosphere was different: their music took over the entire space.
We were all sitting on some foldable chairs, facing the low, small stage in the middle of the room.
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Lisa Iwanycki-Moore’ quiet harp helps amalgamate the sounds together, as Brad Barr sings: “ but what does that prove? / Sometimes I worry I don’t know how to love you.”ĭuring this song, I remembered seeing the Barr Brothers live once before in a small venue in Birmingham, England. Now, a magic trick: Brad Barr takes a string of fabric and pulls it in between the guitar strings while changing chords with his left hand, capo on the fourth fret the sound, fragmented yet elegant, introduces their second track, “ Even the Darkness Has Arms.” The pedal steel guitar once again provides the backing sounds which ensure the permanence of the venue in a realm separated from reality we are maybe in a desert, maybe on a cloud. Morgan Moore’s double bass and Andrew Barr’s drums were in conversation, and, with the impressive acoustics of the UC Theatre, the sound travelled through the ground, walls, and ceiling, embracing the audience from every side. They opened with “Look Before it Changes ” with Brad Barr at the front, sporting a Brian Eno t-shirt, bandana on his head and ukulele in hand, alternating between playing the harmonica and singing. Brett Lanier’s mystical sounds on the pedal steel guitar filled the room, transporting everyone to a land of dreams. The Barr Brothers discreetly took the stage, picked up the instruments and, without a word, began to play. But there was nothing to complain about: with the stage just a few steps away, and with no heads to cover the view, it felt like an intimate concert for a group of friends. On the parterre area, only a small, disjointed crowd of eager, standing people could be found. 2020.On Monday night, for The Barr Brothers‘ first ever performance in the East Bay, and for the grand return of The Milk Carton Kids to Berkeley since their Greek Theatre show in 2016, every tier of the UC Theatre was covered in chairs: most of the audience seemed to have decided to sit down for this live show. this fall on the "A Night with the Milk Carton Kids in Very Small Venues at Very Low Ticket Prices Tour," before heading to the U.K. 18 on the band's Milk Carton Records in partnership with Thirty Tigers. The Milk Carton Kids' latest album, The Only Ones, is due for release Oct. Armed with their own unique and awkward desert-dry wit, they show why they've been twice tapped to host the annual Americana Music Association's Honors & Awards, and why they have become the genre's most endearing export.
"I lose sleep at night like a young man losing the fight of his young life." On "Sea of Roses," Kenneth sings alone before Joey brings harmony and comfort to a man pleading to the universe to not to have to die alone.
With life's heavy saddle, the members rode into songs about vanishing youth, "Younger Years" and "Mourning in America," a song about social and political despair, "Hope of a Lifetime" that Kenneth wrote about a break up, and the devastating power and beauty of "Sea of Roses," which Kenneth wrote about his recent (and successful) bout with cancer during the making of their record. Playing 1950s guitars - Pattengale actually just got a new Martin signature guitar named for him in July - and singing like 1970s Simon and Garfunkel procreating with Crosby and Stills, The Milk Carton Kids are kids no longer. "There are more instruments on their album, but you don't need any more instruments than their two voices and their two guitars," Mountain Stage host Larry Groce said. Back on June 9, 2019, The Milk Carton Kids made its fourth appearance on Mountain Stage, heard here. Playing songs off their Joe Henry-produced album, All The Things That I Did and All The Things That I Didn't Do, Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan prove it just takes two voices and two guitars to be a one-band folk revival.
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