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Outside Lands Festival 2010: Top 5 Performances

Sixty-five artists con­verged onto San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for the third annual Out­side Lands Festival (August 14–15, 2010) to cel­e­brate good music, good food, good wine, and good art (most except for the first heav­ily involve local flair).

Langhorne Slim — Be Set Free (2009)

Lang­horne Slim’s Be Set Free has a con­sis­tent mix of gen­res and themes. The result is always a Slim sound that feels choral and mighty, yet aus­tere and pas­toral. It’s inter­est­ing to think that there could be accom­pa­ny­ing orches­tras and choirs on “For A Lit­tle While” or “Blown Your Mind” and the inti­macy or pas­sion wouldn’t be lost in scale or scope.

Langhorne Slim And The War Eagles — Langhorne Slim And The War Eagles (2008)

The War Eagles are made up of Paul Defiglia on bass and Malachi DeLorenzo on drums and the two def­i­nitely add to Langhorne’s mix of tra­di­tional, yet untra­di­tional folk sen­si­bil­i­ties. That might sound like a con­tra­dic­tion, which in fact, it is. The trio’s song list choice runs at an almost staccato-like fash­ion, jux­ta­pos­ing mod­ern up-tempo folk songs with more stripped down tra­di­tional tunes.