The Books recording didn’t turn out as well, but it is still very listenable. The audience made a lot more noise during the music than with Espers or Will Oldham, and the ‘third member’ of the band you can only glimpse aurally. That would be the footage they projected on a screen behind them that was incredible and jawdropping — really, I appeared like a troglodyte during the whole thing because my mandible was flapping with awe. Enjoy!
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Oh — and if you like these bootlegs, you should really buy the records from Harvest Records. Asheville should thank those guys for bringing such great music and presenting it so well. Thank them by spending money at their store.
Here’s the official video and the studio version of the song.
Damn, I love this town. Harvest Records is celebrating their 5 year anniversary with the Transfigurations music fest, and I’ve been able to attend the two performances at Diana Wortham. And with my new iPod and headphones with built-in microphone, I thought I’d test making some bootleg recordings. They turned out surprisingly well. After this post I’ll be posting some of the recordings. I’ve got some of The Books, The Espers and Bonnie Prince Billy’s Will Oldham. Enjoy!
P.S. I didn’t catch most of the names of the tracks. Help a guy out if you do!
