Search - Various Artists :: Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004

Disappointing

Daniel R. Lange | St. Paul, MN | 10/20/2005

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I had high hopes for this cd with such an ecclectic line-up. The high points are:Los Lonely Boys, The Bad Plus, David Byrne , and String Cheese Incident. Bob Dylan's tune is okay but it sounds disjointed and uninspired. The Dead is probably the biggest letdown for me on the cd. Please don't tell me that this song is a good indicator of what they are doing these days. Mickey Hart, while a fairly competent drummer, REALLY needs to stay away from the vocal mike. This is really taking the Dead's fan base for granted. The rest of the tunes never really reach anything resembling something that I'd care to listen to again more than once. I guess I had to be there. I wonder why they didn't include songs from Neko Case, Doc Watson, Los Lobos, or Galactic? When you open the cd case there is a quote from Gillian Welch that says,"A good song is unstoppable. If you write a good song, they can't do anything to you." I'd be curious to know if the artists on this compilation think that these are good songs or at the very least saying something meaningful."