Photo by Nathan Poppe
I rarely see a crowd so happy to get sad.
Melancholy comes easy for the Mountain Goats but a packed ACM@UCO Performance Lab happily fed the quartet with eager singalongs and undivided attention. There wasn’t a face in the front row that wasn’t thrilled to hear frontman John Darnielle explain the backstory to a song about Mexican wrestlers pulling off opponents’ masks or to throw out a song request when the shoeless singer excused his band and asked for suggestions.
Read more about the show here and click on more photos here.
