I was this close of watching Adrianne Lenker's concert at the Cedar Cultural Center; Everything is sold out

Past midnight. I'm listening at Adrianne Lenker's performance at the Tiny desk (home) series with a bitter taste in my mouth. "What a dream it was, I almost couldn't wake because" this amazing singer is playing at the Cedar Lake Cultural center for only $25 bucks, but everything is sold out. Repeat, rejoice those who got their tickets early. For those left behind, come and join me. Let's grief together tonight. 

This is not an unavoidable chain of events. A foreseeable future. Adrianne Lenker is one of the main members of Big Thief, a trendy indie band (2020 GRAMMY nomination and shit), but also she grew up in Minnesota for most of her life. She is one of us! Funny story ahead. The first time I encountered one of her songs, I listened the lines "Minneapolis schemes and the dried flowers from books half-read." When you've lived in the little apple for some time, you jump for even the most incidental mention of Minnesota. 

Let's get back to Adrianne Lenker. I wish to call her style the perfect Minneapolis suburban folk music style. Is that a thing? Let's make it happen, people. Lenker's last album was made in a cabain. The cabain was in the woods (but not in Minnesota). She followed the journey of every Indie artist. The cabain retirement. The musician route to fame after the spiritual retirement just as Bon Iver. Yes, yes. 

Just watch this amazing performance made from her camper home at the Joshua Tree National Park. Do you smell the trail and everlasting nights below a clean sky. The woods whispering unintelligible sound. Some beautiful tunes carved in oaks, some may say.  

But there is also something unique in her songs, something folky. Look at her songs. It's the lenses used with her descriptions that get mixed with constant imaginary of her upraising. When she talks about her childhood and these images of of the suburban life in America, I like to think that she is talking about Plymouth, Coon Rapids, West St. Paul, Eagan, Minnetonka, etc. What's the cold and white love that Adrianne sings in "Two Reverse"? It has to be the early February's white snow over Minneapolis, that doesn't melt with anything.

If you keep reading upon here, thank you for reading my past-bed-time mumblings. At the end of the day, it makes me happy that my fellow Minnesotan give the attention that Adrianne Lenker deserves. The concert is also for good purposes. As we don't forget Adrianne Lenker, she has not forgotten Minnesota. In fact, my cold heart melted when she mentioned in one of her interviews that she liked to spend time at Caffetto (my favorite coffee place in the whole World): 

"I think it definitely is. I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis and in Minneapolis as well — listening to The Current, actually. I would hang out at this coffeeshop called Plan B a lot in Uptown and Caffetto and go to the Wedge and the Seward Co-op and walk around the lakes. I lived in downtown Minneapolis when I was like 14 through 16 and I would often take the bus to Uptown. I was there every day for a while."