- Katie Summer
- Joseph
1. Be prepared to camp. Even if you don’t think you’ll want to camp, you’ll change your tune when it’s 4 in the morning and you are in no shape to drive back to Portland.
2. Dress as lightly as possible. Short shorts, tank top, flip flops, etc. It gets hot. Especially in the Galaxy Barn, and especially when Leon Bridges is playing. Lord have mercy.
3. A person with a spray bottle of cold water is everybody’s best friend.
4. It is dusty. It’s unavoidable, so just go with it. The shower you take Monday morning will the best shower you’ve ever had.
5. The band or musician you’ve never heard of just might become your new favorite band.
6. I’m looking at you, Sinkane.
7. Just because you can drink all day doesn’t necessarily mean you have to.
8. If you need to sleep in your car because you drove into a ditch at 4 in the morning, go ahead and do so (see # 1 and #7).
9. Keep the number of a local tow truck handy (thanks, A-Affordable Towing!).
10. Be safe.
- Katie Summer
- Tinariwen
But the surprises—catching amazing sets by folks I wasn’t familiar with—were what made the weekend special. Meatbodies are a bunch of doofy-looking dudes, but I’ll be damned if their Sabbath-heavy riffs didn’t melt my face. Their bass player, who is a dead ringer for a young Jimmy Page, wished a happy birthday to the late Jerry Garcia, which seemed ridiculously appropriate. Whitey Morgan and the 78s, from my home state of Michigan, played outlaw country to make Waylon Jennings proud. On the Treeline stage, local trio Joseph, comprised of three sisters with perfect harmony, were like a living postcard of all the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. JD McPherson and his band brought just the right amount of classic, sing-along rock 'n' roll to have even the most sing-along hostile (me) singing stupidly along.
- Katie Summer
- Sinkane
Further reading:
• Pickathon Diaries: Ty Segall, Kamasi Washington, Wolf People, and More
• Pickathon Diaries: The Most Modern Music Festival Around
• A (Rather Long) Pickathon Reading List
• Wolf People: A Series of Tests
• Kamasi Washington: Rebirth of the Cool
• Alice Gerrard: Homeward Bound
- Katie Summer
- Joseph on the Treeline Stage