Rockcrowd Fest 2011 - Concert #5

Falling behind on Rockcrowd Fest!  But still going to get this one up before the next.  On May 19th, Mary and I went and saw Shawn Mullins at Slim's. We started it off with a little playing in Dogpatch, including an early dinner at Hard Knox (which was rough considering I had a late lunch.)  The highlight of the Dogpatch experience was the Mr. & Mrs. Miscellaneous ice cream.


Slim's was a new venue for us.  Mary and I have learned while we do enjoy the sitting - we are not huge fans of shows where people are eating burgers and other grub mid-performance.  It is just sort of bizarre. Also, the crowd was older and ... well obnoxious.  But oh well. Moving on.

The show was wonderful.  Shawn Mullins is one of my favorite storytellers.


He started with this story:


And ended with this one:


Crowds be damned - I love listening to this man play.  And we'll see him again to fix the crowdwoes - no worries.  It is fun to fix "bad crowd" experiences.  Our next Rockcrowd performances is one of those: Iron &Wine. We've only seen him once and it was a horrible view at "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass" surrounded by cellphone talkers, etc.   We left early.  Now, we are going to the beautiful Warfield with pretty good seats in the midst of a chill week. ROCKCROWD!