{"id":392,"date":"2005-08-07T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=392"},"modified":"2015-02-24T23:01:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T23:01:19","slug":"392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"On Carbon Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonleaf.com\/\">Carbon Leaf<\/a> played a free concert in downtown Raleigh as part of 96 Rock&#8217;s FreeFest.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a student at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.edu\/\">the University of Richmond<\/a> Carbon Leaf would play the Cellar, the campus bar, about once a month.  The Cellar was little more than a hole in the wall &#8212; very tiny venue that might seat about twenty people.  Five piece band &#8212; drums, bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitar (and sometimes mandolin), and vocalist with their amp stack on a really cramped stage.  You could get really close and lose your hearing for about a day.  Good times.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen Carbon Leaf since I left Richmond in 1999, though I&#8217;d kept up with their albums since.  So last night I went downtown, and it was nearly perfect weather for an outdoor concert.  Not a lot of people showed up, maybe a few hundred, and maybe a third were really into the band, including a very obvious set of groupies near the front.<\/p>\n<p>Mainly they played songs off their fifth (and newest) album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=135\"><i>Indian Summer<\/i><\/a>, though there were a few songs, like &#8220;The Boxer&#8221; and &#8220;Torn to Tatters,&#8221; off their fourth album, <i>Echo Echo<\/i>.  They played an hour-long set, and it was a very good hour.  They weren&#8217;t quite the jam band that I remember from six years ago, but they had some long instrumental bridges that were quite interesting.<\/p>\n<p>All in all it was a fun time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Carbon Leaf played a free concert in downtown Raleigh as part of 96 Rock&#8217;s FreeFest. When I was a student at the University of Richmond Carbon Leaf would play the Cellar, the campus bar, about once a month. The Cellar was little more than a hole in the wall &#8212; very tiny venue<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=392\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Carbon Leaf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[93,222],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-carbon-leaf","tag-richmond","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}