Bawldamoore!

Spent Saturday in Crabtown for a long overdue visit to A's place. The photo above is from the Inner Harbor and is the "Ravens" crab. These decorated crabs are all over the city, like the cows were in New York and the guitars are in Nashville. Another one we especially liked was the "taxi crab." After a diner breakfast, a trip to Trader Joe's, and a hearty nap we headed out in the hot to walk around Maryland's Artscape Festival. The primary mission was to see a live outdoor performance by one of my favorite bands, Drive-By Truckers. If you never heard of them and like any three-guitar rock with some great lyrics, you owe it to yourself to check them out. I had a bit of a stalker moment near the tour bus and got within arms' length of the genius performers Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, but I figured at my age and gender they wouldn't be very interested in conversation so I snapped the photo and slithered away without a handshake or an autograph. It's been a pretty good summer so far for the alt-country rock scene. Over the last few weeks we were able to catch both Old 97's, at Irving Plaza, and Son Volt, at the Bowery Ballroom.