Been a while since the last post. Also a while since I actually went to this concert.
I went to the Mountain Music Fest at Marymoor Park this year. I should also mention that it was on August 14. Sara Bareilles, The BoDeans, Jakob Dylan, and Robert Randolph and the Family Band were playing, in that order, which surprised me. I was only able to stay long enough to see Sara Bareilles, though, unfortunately.
Sara Bareilles was pretty awesome, at least. I really enjoyed her set, even though it was really quite hot out. I thought it was really cool that she played her songs differently in person than on disc. It made things interesting. Almost as interesting as when she transitioned from one of her new songs into a cover of Beyonce's "Single Ladies".
The concert was a pretty good preview of her new album. Or rather, it would have been had she been playing everything like it was on disc. I would guess that she didn't play any of the new stuff like on disc, either, though, so I'm still going to wait to pre-order Kaleidoscope Heart. It was good to hear new music, on the other hand, even if some of it felt a little strange. I don't remember the title of the song, but one of them had drum line that was faster than it should have been. It matched okay with the music; it wasn't off-beat. But if it was slower, I would have absolutely loved the song. As it was, the song was too...club-y.
I also learned, and this, too, surprised me, that "Gravity" was about, as she put it, "a douche-bag." I still maintain that it doesn't sound like it's about an asshole. Maybe it's a specific person that ended up being a cock.
We tried to stay for The BoDeans, but they hadn't started their set by the time we had to leave, so we missed out on them, along with Jakob Dylan and Robert Randolph and the Family Band.
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