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Saturday, August 2 Pickathon Pix- Day 1
Pickathon got off to a rousing beginning Friday evening, and despite a bit of rain never descended into those Woodstock '94 depths previously mentioned here. Thus far, the whole ordeal seems to be a blueprint of sorts for how to run a music festival-- plenty of toilets, good food, solar-powered hot water, lots of camping space, and a reasonable amount of traffic, thanks in part to the organizers' focus on alternative means of transit to Pendarvis Farm, including the free EcoShuttle. Oh, and there's a bit of music, too...
We got there first for North Carolina's Chatham County Line, who might be among the most traditional of performers at this year's festival-- check the one mic set up for proof. The band's latest, IV, came out this year on yep roc.
Choices, choices, and there were plenty spread across five stages, but after a brief rainshower we decided to check out the always entertaining Tom Heinl. Heinl's a local, you might say, who's "lived and traveled all over Eugene, Oregon" as he put it. He played a characteristically dead-panned set, including favorites like "Half Day Vacation" and "Three-Way."
The rain having subsided mostly for good, next up brought the troubadouring nor'easter Langhorne Slim and his band, who quickly brought a dancing crowd to the fornt of the stage. Slim, in case you can't tell, is a photographer's dream on stage, with the rock n' roll presence to back up his manic mix of blues, country, folk, and soul.
After catching a bit of Bombadil's entirely unplugged set deep in the forest at the appropriately named Woods Stage, we hiked it back for Jolie Holland's Mountain View Stage-closing set. Holland was backd by members of Nick Jaina's band, Loch Lomond and Norfolk & Western for her set, which drew heavily on material from her upcoming album The Living & the Dead, out Oct. 7th on Anti-. Holland was sporting her Corey Hart look. 
See our whole Pickathon set here, or view it as a slideshow here.
Plenty more to come from Pickathon, and if you can't make it out to the festival this weekend, don't miss our in-studio session with Bombadil on tonight's edition of In House (9pm, 24/7 stream, HD radio and the stations of OPB).
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