I don’t really know where to begin to talk about this year’s Word of South Festival. I could begin at the beginning, that moment when I had my photo taken with legendary Muscle Shoals bassist David Hood, creator of what is arguably the coolest bass part in the history of pop music. Go on and […]
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live” – Joan Didion “We tell each other stories in order to live together” – i2b People accuse the i2b team of elitist snobbery, of being blind and deaf to the kinds of entertainment that “real people” might enjoy. P’tah, saith the team: The i2b brow covers the full […]
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The i2b team of one continues their coverage of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. Please share widely. And if you are feeling generous, click that DONATE button over there so we can buy gas and go home. Day 4 began with some drama for the i2b team. We had hoped to be through […]
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The i2b team of one continues their coverage of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. Please share widely. And if you are feeling generous, click that DONATE button over the so we can bail out the photographer. Don’t ask. It’s a safe bet that Day 3 of the 2018 Big Ears Festival reached the […]
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The i2b team of one continues their coverage of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. Please share widely. And if you are feeling generous, click that DONATE button over the so we can feed the copy editor. Day Two started off with a bang. The Roscoe Mitchell Trio Five, featuring Vincent Davis on drums […]
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Follow @immunetoboredom on Twitter or check back here for updates throughout the Big Ears Festival. Share this widely if you please. Day one is in the books1Actually, it is still going on, but this boy is done., so let’s recap. Went to the opening remarks, which drew a standing room crowd at the Visit Knoxville […]
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Follow @immunetoboredom on Twitter or check back here for updates throughout the festival. Share this widely if you please. The Rova Saxophone Quartet played in Atlanta tonight, a little sneak preview of the coming sonic onslaught of Big Ears. Two sets, unamplified, in the beautifully resonant Existentialist Congregation Church in Candler Park. There was a […]
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Follow @immunetoboredom on Twitter or check back here for updates throughout the festival. Share this widely if you please. Last year, Big Ears kicked off with nief norf (more on them soon) performing Michael Gordon’s composition “Timber”, a piece for six percussionists playing amplified 2×4 pieces of wood with mallets. It was one of the […]
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Another in a series of 2018 Big Ears Festival previews courtesy of the i2b staff. All one of us. Share this widely if you please. A passel of soul-thieving tempters in disguise; Pythagoras was fascinated by them, developed several laws of physics by observing them, and found his way to proposing a cosmology based on […]
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Follow @immunetoboredom on Twitter or check back here for updates throughout the festival. Share this widely if you please. The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville is, for me, the singular music event of the year. Four days jam packed with more music than you can shake a stick at, and way more than you can hope […]
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