It was inevitable.  After a recent camera purchase and some beautiful weather recently, I’ve opted to finally upgrade my Flickr account so I can upload unlimited photos and have unlimited sets/collections.  I’ve already been having fun with it, and you can check out all some good concert coverage there:

Concerts:

-Guster @ Foellinger Auditorium 2007
-Red Hot Chili Peppers @ Assembly Hall 2007
-Big Summer Classic 2005

Festivals: 

-Summer Camp 2006
-SXSW 2007
-Cavefest 2007 <–Just got back from this yesterday, coverage soon, or at least a photo montage

Artistic:

If you like me that much, my “artistic” collection can be found here.

Everyone have a good weekend?

Quickly after Gina Lee & The Brisket Boys left the stage, Megan Melara walked on and began her set. She had a very good vibe and performed nearly all originals if I recall correctly, with the exception of a wonderful rendition of Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah.” I did manage to find a copy of her song entitled “Back Home” to share with you. Take a listen and make sure to find her website and myspace and say hello. Also, load up the mp3 player at her site and give that cover of “Hallelujah” a listen.

MP3: Megan Melara - Back Home

After awaking with something of a dry throat Friday after quite an enjoyable Thursday evening, my hosts and I headed to Flipnotics coffee shop where they were both playing. Since I haven’t mentioned so far, I was staying with my cousin Sweet Basil McJagger, organist for The Derailers, and his wife Gina Lee, Austin’s finest yodelist. If they’re actually referred to as yodelists, that is. The two of them were playing with a few others as Gina Lee & The Brisket Boys, and they’re always an enjoyable set. I’ve got an mp3 here of Gina Lee singing as well as pictures from the show, click to check out the rest of the pictures at flickr. The song, “Why I’m Walking,” is off of a recent Bloodshot Records compilation dedicated to Wanda Jackson.

From Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson:

MP3: Gina Lee - Why I’m Walking

See all of the pics from Gina Lee & The Brisket Boys at flickr.

Next Up: Megan Melara following up Gina Lee at Flipnotics…

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After catching the last of Bishop Allen’s set we headed towards the downtown region across the river to Antone’s to get in line for the Booker T & The MGs show around 6. Little did we know they would let us stand in line until 7:30 before making us aware that it was a badges only show, and we had zero chance of getting in. We were even 15th in line. Ugh, oh well, I did manage to snap a shot of some ridiculous “manpri’s:”

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Manpri’s aside, we walked next door to a nice lil’ hookah bar called Red Fez, where we caught a few good songs by Afrofreque (you can listen at their MySpace), a very solid jazzy hip-hop act.

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As is the theme of SXSW it was time to keep moving along, stopping at many a random bar for many a random beer with my hosts for the week. From left, Gina Lee, Sweet Basil of The Derailers, and yours truly:

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Musically the rest of the night wasn’t too eventful, some random bands not necessarily memorable and not necessarily by their own fault.

Next up: Friday morning starts off with both of the above hosts playing as Gina Lee & The Brisket Boys (Website) at Flipnotics, and continues with some of my favorite shows of the week later in the afternoon. Stay tuned…

Alright, many server issues aside I can get back to my SXSW coverage. After heading out from seeing The Teeth we walked across the street to the Schuba’s 11th Annual SXSW Roundup. I still can’t figure out what a Chicago venue is doing throwing parties in Austin, but all the power to them. I only managed to catch Bishop Allen out of their whole lineup, but I snagged some pictures below and enjoyed the show. After reading endless commentary on them at YANP I figured they had to have something going on. Check out the MP3 from their site and the pictures I snagged below:

MP3: Bishop Allen - Click Click Click Click

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