For the second year in a row, portions of the Bonnaroo Music Festival will be featured on a double live album and DVD. The two-CD set, Live From Bonnaroo 2003, is due out September 30 on Sanctuary Records Group. It was produced by John Alagia (Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer) and includes 23 tracks, such as The Dead’s ‘Sugar Magnolia,’ The Allman Brothers Band’s ‘High Cost of Low Living’ and ‘Widespread Panic’s ‘Papa Johnny Road.’ One of the festival’s major headliners, Neil Young, is conspicuously absent from the album.
The DVD, 270 Miles From Graceland – Bonnaroo 2003, was directed by Danny Clinch, a filmmaker best known for his photography. ‘For all my previous films, I was the main cinematographer,’ says Clinch. ‘For shooting something of this magnitude – 4 stages, 80,000 people – I hired cinematographers who I could trust to translate the feeling I was trying to capturea classic hand-held documentary style combined with adventurous framing and point of view.’ The DVD is due out October 21 and features performances by Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Warren Haynes, Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, Medeski Martin & Wood, My Morning Jacket, James Brown, Tortoise, Nickel Creek, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips and Yonder Mountain String Band, among others.
For complete details, visit www.bonnaroo.com.