At least, the endorphin receptors in my head are still buzzing madly almost an hour after the encore ended. I kind of lost touch with Oysterband back in the early nineties, when they decided no one was listening to their lyrics anyway so they might as well just have fun and do covers of I Fought the Law<\/i>. Except I<\/i> was damn well listening to their lyrics, and their music, and I always thought I Fought the Law<\/i> blew goats. So I went away.<\/p>\n
But evidently that was just a phase, because I just saw them and it was the best fucking concert I’ve been to in years. The mix and the acoustics were as clean as a studio recording, except they were right there<\/i>, live, in front of our table. The new tunes were great, the old ones lovingly rendered, and even the cover they did<\/i> sneak in \u2014 the ancient traditional John Barleycorn<\/i> \u2014 was an electric revelation in close harmony with massive percussion.<\/p>\n
I tell you, the UK grows the best groups…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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