With many venues across the country still shuttered (and others operating at a very limited capacity), most of us are still unable to catch our favorite bands live, but a thorough collection of old live performances, photos and other rarities to sink our teeth into is the next-best thing. Courtney Barnett is the latest artist to launch her own live performance archive, and she did it as a way to stay connected to her fans while stuck at home unable to tour. But in recent years, many musicians - including plenty who exist entirely outside of the jam scene - have taken matters into their own hands and launched their own online archives.Īnd as we find ourselves more than a year removed from live music thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, we need them more than ever. In the early days, most of them were run by fans of jam bands like The Grateful Dead or Phish for a genre where no two performances of any given song are exactly alike, it made sense that fans would need a place to help them track down a particular live performance, swap bootlegs or peruse decades of setlists. Her most recent release, much like her first is a wonderful compilation of free association thinking and lyrics that come with the speed and brilliance of lightning. For just about as long as the internet’s been around, there have been websites devoted to archiving a particular band’s touring history. For Courtney Barnett life comes at you fast and it’s important to get all those experiences down on the page and out through song.
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