Shakin' my knees

Despite a rainy start, Shaky Knees ended in Atlanta on Sunday with the best line up of the weekend and the summer sunshine. It was a beautiful way to go out.

Shaky Knees brought great acts in for the weekend: Modest Mouse, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The National, Alabama Shakes, Cage the Elephant, Local Natives, Wild Belle, The Lone Bellow, Violent Femmes, Blitzen Trapper, Deer Tick, Mason Jennings, Man Man, Dawes and more.

It also had great shows for late night sets played around town. Man Man at the Earl on Friday and Spoon at Center Stage, Lord Huron at Terminal West, and The Lone Bellow at Vinyl on Saturday night. It was easy to jump around town to see your favorite acts in an intimate setting and overall a fantastic weekend for music in Atlanta. It inspired us to get serious about #thefamilyband and I am going home and picking up my mandolin everyday again... or trying to.

Shaky Knees was moved from Masquerade Music Park to Atlantic Station this year. Since Friday was a constant downpour of rain (because when is it not raining during festival weeks in Atlanta?), the concrete blessed us with a lack of mud and thanks to a friend that lives in Atlantic Station we had a rain delay hideout/crash pad/grub joint/free parking spot and beer all weekend long.

But it was a parking lot in the middle of the city. And while these views are hard to hate on too much...

I missed the festival feel of open fields and dirt and grim. Yes, I am going to complain about the lack of grim. When the sun shown down on the parking lot on Sunday, we began to FRY. (P.S. I loved every moment of the heat and still didn't get tan lines) but needed to shade my pale companions - in the shadeless parking lot.

Looking extra overheated a trip to Target made all right again in the world of the music festival and that is what Shaky Knees was in an summary. A parking lot that saved you in the rain and tore you up in the sun. But either way there was a restaurant, clothing store, or friend's house within minutes walk away. Maybe it did have it's benefits after all.

and the music more than made up for it. Shows were great, the atmosphere was perfect, and have I thanked you for the lack of EDM acts? Because that was wonderful.

You will see us next year Shaky Knees.