So it might’ve been kind of hard for me to weed this one down (even now I’m still mourning the songs I left off) but that’s because the lineup at Newport Folk Fest this year is so. good.
… and we’re leaving in just 2 days, which means that at this point I’m pretty much doing nothing but staring at the clock and running circles around my cell office, counting down the hours until we leave.
It’ll be hard to top our experience last year… the perfect evenings, the perfect shows, the best luck ever that kept us out of the rain and in the room just a few feet from some of our favorite bands… but I can barely stand to wait. So I made a list.
The Devil Makes Three Old number seven
Lucero Texas & Tennessee
Houndmouth Hey Rose
Dawes A little bit of everything
Gregory Alan Isakov Saint Valentine
Shakey Graves Unlucky skin
Trampled by Turtles Are you behind the shining star?
Band of Horses No one’s gonna love you
Jenny Lewis The voyager
Leif Vollebekk Cairo blues
Noah Gundersen Nashville
Pokey LaFarge Central time
Shovels & Rope Birmingham
Hozier To be alone
Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer Tam lin (child 39)
PHOX Evil
Ages and Ages Light goes out
Rodrigo y Gabriela Diablo rojo
Deer Tick The rock
Valerie June Somebody to love
Mavis Staples I like the things about me
Jack White Lazaretto
P.S. You can see last year’s essential playlist here.
