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“Everybody’s out of wristbands. That’s not a bad problem to have.”

That was Lincoln Exposed organizer Spencer Munson, headed out of the Zoo Bar to pick up more wristbands Friday night.

Which is all that needs to be said about the festival, which very well could have had the biggest night in its nine years with packed houses at various times at the Zoo, Duffy’s Tavern and the Bourbon Theatre’s Rye Room.

I was on my way to the Zoo to see the Dylan Bloom Band when I crossed paths with Munson. Bloom, who lives on a North Bend farm, is a young country artist who, with his band, sound like Steve Earle crossed with a little Tom Petty.

Bloom’s voice has just the right ragged edge, Jason Ferguson can play that guitar and Bloom writes superb songs that connected on first hearing. There’s plenty of potential there -- some of which is already being borne out on the Red Dirt country circuit.

I’d come to the Zoo from the Bourbon where I caught another of the night’s most impressive bands -- Life is Cool.

The seven-member outfit, with sax and trumpet, male and female singers, filled the Rye Room with fog while delivering a set of 80s rooted Talking Heads meets B52s meets Brian Ferry dance rock.