Alvin Youngblood Hart Amplifies the Blues at the Hill Country Picnic

Up until this year’s Hill Country Picnic, every performance I have heard from Alvin Youngblood Hart has been a solo acoustic effort, a style at which he excels. But on Saturday afternoon at the picnic, Hart performed with his electric trio in a style that incorporated a harder-edged, rock-influenced aesthetic, and the crowd responded enthusiastically.