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Review of The List: Austin City Limits Music Festival 2008 Preview


Not to sound like a broken record, but my previous recommendations of David Brown's KUT-PRX work usually start with, or include the words, "More nice work from David Brown and his colleagues at KUT."

More nice work from David Brown and his colleagues at KUT.

We find him here introducing the high points from the just-concluded Austin City Limits Music Festival 2008, a three-day blast of "cutting edge rock to blues, soul, country and roots music."

Here's the one quirk or advisory that may make the program a deal breaker on your station:

This program was originally produced as a festival preview and recommendation list to help ACLMF concert goers choose which of the 100s of bands and artists to go hear.

The show contains time references that may be confusing, but to make this a comfortable fit for your station, host/producer David Brown wrote a new intro for PRX stations. With that intro and your advance promotion, you can turn this program into a "Best of the Austin City Limits Music Festival" for your listeners. I felt the show helped me get caught up with some of what's current, new and ahead of the curve in the 2008-2009 music scene. That would be another way to authentically promote it on your air.

In addition to moments with Belleville Outfit, Vampire Weekend, Octopus Project (fantastic), MGMT, Abigail Washburn and others, you'll hear complete tunes from Asleep at the Wheel, Patty Griffin (incredible), Roky Erickson, Okkervil River, Yeasayer, Fleet Foxes, Silversun Pickups and David Byrne.

"The List: Austin City Limits Music Festival 2008 Preview" is a good mix of snippets and complete songs from bands your listeners aren't necessarily going to hear anywhere but on your station. And there are likely to be some first time discoveries as well.