Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, Tennessee Thursday, June 11, 2009
Erykah Badu didn’t care that it was fry-an-egg-on-a-hippy hot. She was going to wear her green Public Enemy hoodie anyway. Her music was equally quirky, ranging from hip-hop breakup ballads (the hit “On and On”) to burbling, aqueous funk. At all times, the mercurial funk ebbed and flowed on the strength of Badu’s regal bearing and rubbery soul vocals. Proudly weird and weirdly alluring, she and her large, funky band raised the local temperature by at least a few degrees. DAVID MARCHESE
Photograph by Ian Witlen
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