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In conditions of environment you"d be hard-pressed to find somewhere some-more idyllic: a pick up of country cabins nestling around a seething rivulet in the mountains. Were all this not enough, the object decides to shine. All weekend.
A prominence on Friday is Willy Mason, who plays at one in the sunrise in a highly evolved barn. His care-worn voice accompanied by only guitar is ideally matched to the hour and theres a enchanting impulse during an painful "For the Need of Love" when dual moths begin chasing each alternative in a dry lamp of light thirty feet on top of Masons head.
The following day sees the Jayhawks" Gary Louris personification a sparse, beautiful set of acoustic songs prior to being protracted by a pick-up rope featuring legal holiday organisers Robin and Joe Bennett on guitar and bass. Having rehearsed only once that afternoon, no one looks some-more astounded and gratified than Louris when they rip in to liquid versions of "I"m Gonna Make You Love Me", "I"d Run Away" and "Blue", moving the days initial mass conflict of dancing.
Saturday-night headliners Mercury Rev are accompanied by an eight-piece cover orchestra. The highlights of a stunning, fragile set embody "Car Wash Hair", "Tonite it Shows", "Opus 40" with the packaged tent singing along to the line "Catskill Mountains, buried dreams" and a ideally realised cover of Jackson Brownes "These Days", most closer in shade to Nicos aching, bereft take on the strain than to the strange version.
Having outlayed most of the week end personification in assorted subsidy bands and traffic with logistical problems Robin and Joe eventually take their spin in the spotlight around midnight on the Saturday with their new rope Dreaming Spires. Their tremulous, hugely symphonic cocktail song is well value the wait, too: Big Star by approach of Gram Parsons and Teenage Fanclub.
A warn guest on the last day is Michael Lang, upholder of the strange 1969 Woodstock, hold only along the road, who pronounces the eventuality "Very, really cool. No sponsors... all about song in the country!" and, fittingly, the night ends with about thirty of the hardcore collected around a on fire campfire to stick on in massed ukulele and acoustic guitar versions of the functions of Neil Young, The Band, Springsteen and, um, Katy Perry.
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