{"id":309,"date":"2010-02-08T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=309"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:35:02","slug":"news-bits-bobs-southern-festivals-waits-reads-new-lidell-scott-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2010\/02\/08\/news-bits-bobs-southern-festivals-waits-reads-new-lidell-scott-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"News Bits &amp; Bobs: Southern Festivals, Waits Reads, New Lidell &amp; Scott-Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><\/p>\n<li>Gulf Shores, Alabama, will host the Hangout Music Festival May 14-16, 2010.  The fest will feature A.A. Bondy&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2010\/02\/06\/hangout-with-john-legend-zac-brown-band-the-black-crowes\/\" target=\"blank\">some other people<\/a>.  A lot of really good acts, actually, like the Blind Boys of Alabama, John Legend, Matisyahu, Black Joe Lewis &#038; the Honeybears and Michael Franti &#038; Spearhead, among others.<\/li>\n<li>The Felice Brothers will be down in Bondy territory when they play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordcvb.com\/doubledecker\/2010\/index.html\" target=\"blank\">the Double Decker Arts Festival<\/a> in Oxford, Mississippi, on April 24, 2010.  The free festival will be headlined by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and will also feature performances by Jimbo Mathus and Those Darlins, among others.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2010\/02\/tom-waits-reads-charles-bukowski.html\" target=\"blank\">Tom Waits reads Charles Bukwoski<\/a>.  &#8216;Nough said.<\/li>\n<li>Mercurial soul singer Jamie Lidell&#8217;s new album <i>Compass<\/i> comes out in May. This time around, he&#8217;s getting a hand from Beck, Feist, Pat Sansone of Wilco and a few members of Grizzly Bear.  You can hear the title track at <a href=\"http:\/\/stereogum.com\/archives\/jamie_lidell__compass_113221.html\" target=\"blank\">Stereogum<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/37810-beck-feist-guest-on-jamie-lidell-lp\/\" target=\"blank\">Pitchfork<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know how long ago this was posted, so it may no longer count as news to anyone else, but <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/tv\/#\/episode\/2051-bowerbirds\" target=\"blank\">the Bowerbirds played a few songs<\/a> for Pitchfork&#8217;s <i>Cemetery Gates<\/i> series.<\/li>\n<li>Gil Scott-Heron&#8217;s first album in over a decade drops tomorrow, and you can take a listen below.  I owe him a few bucks just for the number of times I listened to it yesterday.  Gorgeous work.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>http:\/\/gilscottheron.net\/widget\/gilscottheronalbum.swf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Shores, Alabama, will host the Hangout Music Festival May 14-16, 2010. 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