On this edition Michele K-tel blabbers on about last week’s inaugural EAUX CLAIRES music fest in Wisconsin featuring head-exploding performances from Colin Stetson, Sam Amidon, Sufjan Stevens, plus a few new songs from award-winning-Wisconsinites and hosts Justin Vernon and Bon Iver.

Playlist 7.23.15

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld “The Rest of Us” Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation)
Michael Perry “Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun.”
Colin Stetson & Justin Vernon “Who the Waves Are Roaring For” History of Warfare Part 2 (Constellation”

Bon Iver “Untitled #1” Live @ EAUX CLAIRES 2015
Sam Amidon “Blue Mountains” Cardinal Sessions
Sam Amidon “Graveyard Dispatch #1- Brain Walk”
Sam Amidon “Shake It Off” Bright Sunny South (Nonesuch)
The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Sam Amidon “I Am Not Waiting Anymore” I’ll Find A Way
Low “Holy Ghost (Demo)” The Visible End (Sub Pop)
No BS Brass Band “Khan!” Audiotree Live

Justin Vernon “Time’s Gone Inside Out”
SpooN “Inside Out” They Want My Soul (Merge)
Hiss Golden Messenger “The Beast & Dragon, Adored (Spoon cover)” Or Thousands of Prizes: The Covers EP (Merge)
Melt Banana “Sweeper” Return Of 13 Hedgehogs (AZAP)
Michael Perry “This Death is Blanketing Last Year’s Death”
Sufjan Stevens “Fourth of July” Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
Sufjan Stevens “My Blue Bucket of Gold” Live at EAUX CLAIRES 2015
Sufjan Stevens “Come On Feel the Illinois!” Live at EAUX Claires 2015

The National w/ Sufjan Stevens “I’m Afraid Of Everyone” Live at EAUX CLAIRES 2015
Michael Perry “Summer Taunts The Weak…”
Sylvan Esso “Dreamy Bruises” Sylvan Esso (PTKF)
PHOX “Friendship pizza and AARON RODGERS” FRIENDSHIP
PHOX “Evil” FRIENDSHIP (PTKF)
Allan Kingdom “Evergreens” Future Memoirs (So Cold)

Bon Iver “Untitled #2” Live @ EAUX CLAIRES 2015
Michael Perry “After Bundling Through Another Tight-Lipped Winter”
The Staves “The Shining” If I Was (Nonesuch)
Sean Carey on The Eau Claire Sound…
S. Carey “Creaking” Range of Light (Jagjaguar)
Bon Iver “Skinny Love” live @ EAUX CLAIRES 2015