March 20, 2006

Richard Swift

Richard and his band, The Sons of Freedom, entertained the crowd under the Emo's Annex outdoor tent. His piano playing was happy in a cool, major chord old-timey way. Lots of romping sing-alongs like maybe what you'd find at a plantation party in the South 150 years ago -- only the people enjoying the music here were black-wearing hipsters. "Atlantic Ocean" was (he thought) his last song, which had lots of guests onstage bouncing and clapping along (appearing as if they couldn't really dance). An extra last song granted by the sound crew was a ballad that sounded affectionately like Jeff Buckley. This Starflyer 59 keyboardist is quite talented and knows how to project a good time onstage.

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at March 20, 2006 12:07 PM