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Erykah Badu at Bill’s Records. (Hal Samples)
The crowd was somewhere between antsy and bored in anticipation of Erykah Badu’s arrival at Bill’s Records last night. Then again, the crowd probably felt a bit out of place–it’d be tough to say for certain that any of the people in the line to meet Erykah Badu last night had actually been to Bill’s before. It didn’t help that no one was quite sure what time Erykah was supposed to show–some people thought 10 p.m., others assumed midnight, as it was termed a “midnight release party”–and the lazy attempts at hyping up the crowd from DJ Big Texas weren’t exactly helping matters.
Still, when Ms. Badu arrived at 12:20 to her crowd of maybe 75 fans or so, she was welcomed to a decent applause, especially after reminding the set that it was her birthday.
Here’s how the entrance went down (thanks to Cindy Chaffin for throwing this clip I shot with her camera up on YouTube):
