2009 Bonnaroo Lineup

It was a late night in the back end of February 2006, cold as a witch's tit out, when my friend messaged me over MSN. It was the first time I ever heard about Bonnaroo. Tom Petty was to my friend as Barack Obama is to America, and he was going to be performing at a music festival way down in the back waters of Tennessee. Basically, he was going no matter what, and as it turned out I was obliged to join him. Radiohead and My Morning Jacket were the ones that had me sold. Well that, and obviously Mr. Phil Lesh and friends. Anyways, I went, many shows were seen, many faces were melted, many memories were made, I discovered the purpose of life itself, yadayadayada 2007's line up rolls around. I'm not gonna lie, my initial reaction was bittersweet. This go around there was no MMJ, but Jacky White would make his first appearance on the farm, and seeing how I hold him in the same company as I hold Jimmy James and the boys, I knew I had to make my triumphant return. Once again, a merry time was had by all, but if the ghosts of the past have told us once, they've told us a thousand times.... nothing compares to your first. Mind you, The Flaming Lips did land a spaceship onstage, so I mean, there was that. When it came time for last year, I was once again a bit skeptical. Yes My Morning Jacket was back, but Metallica, at Bonnaroo, really? It's not that I didn't like them, but it just didn't feel.... right. I got over it though, being through two Roo's can really alter your perspective on a lot of things. And besides, headliners are just the cherry on top; everyone knows the undercard is where it's really at. In the end I'm glad I came around. If you were there, then you also witnessed the greatest concert in the history of music. I'm of course talking about MMJ's torrential onslaught on all that we knew..... or at least thought we knew. Any person walking away from that show would forever be different from the person they were when they were walking to it. Yes, I'm not lying, none of this is hyperbole, we actually witnessed God confirm his existence..... unless those were rain machines after all. Either way, if you've made it this far, if you've trudged through all that verbal diarrhea, what I was trying to get at is I've come to know and love Bonnaroo. So it is with confidence when I say that, for me, this is by far the greatest line up I've seen for Bonnaroo..... and it doesn't even include MMJ. I will be glad to make 2009 the fourth time I visit the farm. I can't wait to bask in all it's glory with all you fine ladies and gentlemen that will be joining me. Somebody set my alarm for Saturday morning, I gots me some tickets to order:

The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2009 Lineup:

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Phish (2 Shows)
Beastie Boys
Nine Inch Nails
David Byrne
Wilco
Al Green
Snoop Dogg
Elvis Costello
Erykah Badu
Paul Oakenfold
Ben Harper and Relentless7
The Mars Volta
TV on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Gov’t Mule
Andrew Bird
Band Of Horses
Merle Haggard
MGMT
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The Decemberists
Girl Talk
Bon Iver
Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Galactic
The Del McCoury Band
of Montreal
Allen Toussaint
Coheed and Cambria
Booker T & the DBTs
David Grisman Quintet
Lucinda Williams
Animal Collective
Gomez
Neko Case
Down
Jenny Lewis
Santogold
Robert Earl Keen
Citizen Cope
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
The Ting Tings
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Kaki King
Grizzly Bear
King Sunny Adé
Okkervil River
St. Vincent
Zac Brown Band
Raphael Saadiq
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Crystal Castles
Tift Merritt
Brett Dennen
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue
Toubab Krewe
People Under the Stairs
Alejandro Escovedo
Vieux Farka Touré
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Cherryholmes
Yeasayer
Todd Snider
Chairlift
Portugal. The Man.
The SteelDrivers
Midnite
The Knux
The Low Anthem
Delta Spirit
A.A. Bondy
The Lovell Sisters
Alberta Cross

MORE ARTISTS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!