Recap - Bloomington

It has happened again- I let this thing get away from me.  So now begins the series of back tracking posts. 

Bloomington, indiana, home of the University of Indiana.  This is probably the most random city on the map that we have now played four times for some reason. 

But perhaps that has something to do with Bloomington also being the home of Travis' brother Austin, who is also a member of a string laden orchestral band called Brother John.  They are a rotating cast of classically trained musicians led by composer/songwriter Travis Jeffords. 

He stands front and center guitaring alongside Austin and before 15 people with music stands. Their sound is voluminous, made of voaclists, violins, a viola, cello, bass, flute, bassoon, drums, and some other instrumentalists I can't quite see. They incorporate some samples, some wordless vocals, thoroughly composed parts- perhaps the most sonically compatible opening band for balmorhea.

...too bad we had more flubs in our set than we'd like to remember. What are the odds that we would all make mistakes we never ever make?

Note: shows most definitely go better when the whole band has had more than 5 hours of sleep and has not just finished four straight 12 hour days recording in the studio. Go figure. Its okay though, things would get better.