Hangin at the Hangout Festival- Day 2

Well here we are at the Hangout Festival day two. Day two seemed to be even more eventful than yesterday, which I didn’t think was possible. We started off our day catching a set by an emerging artist out of Birmingham named Jon Black. Some locals had told us his story the night before and actually got us his contact information for a interview. We wanted to do a a acoustic song by the beach similar to what we had done with Hightide Blues but as we were walking down the beach I noticed the rather large ferris wheel turning in the distance. I suggested, almost in jest that we record the song and do the interview on the ferris wheel. Jon loved the idea and a few moments later we were doing an interview and recording a song called “Gravity” 7 stories up spinning over the white sands of Gulf Shore.



After the coolest ferris wheel rides I have ever been on, we headed on over to catch a bit of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals set. We really wanted to see her performance because on Sunday she will in Music City playing Nashville Sunday Night and we were certain that we weren’t going to be back in town for that show. After her amazing set we went back stage and sat down with the beautiful Grace Potter. Her new album drops June 8th.

Still a bit weak at the knees from meeting Grace we raced on over to see Rodrigo Y Gabriella’s show, so far one of our favorite performances of the weekend. It is truly amazing how much music and energy can come out of just two people. We took a video of hippie dancing during their last song. Stay tuned for that video when we get some more editing time.

Now that our minds were completely blown from the guitar virtuoso duo that is Rodrigo Y Gabriella we had to race back to the artist area to meet up with Davy Knowles. He was pumped to be a special surprise performer with Gov't Mule later in the evening. We had about 3 minutes to prepare for the interview, but it turned out really well.

Nashville's local scene was in full force support of Moon Taxi on the Jam Base stage. I was reviewing my photos in the pit for a second, then looked up to see the band was missing a member. The lead guitarist had jumped off the stage to a platform table and performed his a solo in the crowd.

We then caught up with the guys from Wild Sweet Orange in the artist area and they were nice enough to sign the guitar we are auctioning off for the oil spill relief. They performed a quick acoustic song in the artist area for us. Check back for the video.



After the performance, we called it a day and went over to see The Roots perform on the main stage. They ended their set with "Who can top that shit." We answered that with "Not John Legend." We will keep adding updates, but our internet keeps going out. Check back later for more photos and videos.