October 13 2007: Drew Hickum and the Ministry of Folk - Langdon Street Cafe, Montpelier VT

Caught a ride north with the Ministry, sharing the back with Tate and Tate's bass while Drew and Lisa listened to and sang along with Mr. Al Green in the front. It was good times as Vermont flew by at usually 80mph, periodically 65mph every time Lisa saw a cop and slammed on her breaks.

But we got to Montpelier, a town whose name I have just now learned to spell, around 8pm and collectively found it to be beautiful and quaint and the sort of place a person could find themselves getting used to living in. And then we found the Langdon Street Cafe, which is located right on the edge of a little river that flows right through town, and the warm feelings in each of our hearts grew warmer. It was a nice place. They served us tasty sandwiches and a pretty great beer, the name of which I never quite got my brain around, but which came from a big carved-fish tap.

And the Ministry played pretty well to a few folks who dwindled to the maybe ten who were there at the end of the night. Drew and Lisa played a tune about Charleston to start out the second set that was just fabulous, and it was good times all around. Sarai and I did our homework in the back while drinking the afore-mentioned fish beers.

And, as we really should have figured out by this point in our lives, all good things must pass: the bar stiffed the band $250 and then the Red Sox lost spectacularly in the eleventh as we listened on the long drive home. But it was still fun times.