April 14 2007: Son Volt - Pearl Street Ballroom, Northampton MA

So after some major carpool drama we finally got back into town by 9 and Caitlin and Alicia and I met up with Classmate And Soon To Be Neighbor Marie and a couple of Caitlin's friends and we all drank beer and watched Son Volt play. Son Volt, whose songs I don't really know at all but who I'd seen at Bumbershoot a couple years ago and was impressed by. Son Volt, whose songs I really want to get to know now.

It was just a great rock show. Two guys on guitar, one guy on bass, one guy on keyboards, one guy on drums, one of the guitar guys singing and playing harmonica. Good solid electric guitar rock tunes interspersed with good solid one acoustic/one electric rock tunes. The kind of songs that (if you're like me and didn't know them in the first place) you really enjoy at the time but fully realize that you could be enjoying them so much more if you only knew them enough to sing along in your head and anticipate that harmonica line.

But it was mostly a social-type occasion, with half the show spent near the front where it was too loud to talk and the other half spent near the bar where it was too loud to talk but where we tried anyway and where there was convenient access to overpriced beer. And I'm pretty sure good times were had by all.