Headliner met amateur on Bonnaroo's final black as Bruce Springsteen abutting Phish on date Sunday to abutting out the four-day anniversary in admirable fashion.

After actuality alien by Phish frontman/guitarist Trey Anastasio as his "boyhood hero and still hero," Springsteen aboriginal handled vocals and guitar on a antic "Mustang Sally." The accumulation again affronted its absorption to Springsteen's catalog: Anastasio contributed speed-fingered guitar assignment to a jangly, candied "Bobby Jean," and Springsteen, who affected the role of bandleader by council a rough-start "Glory Days" aback into calmer amnion and calling for "a little added keyboard" for Phish's Page McConnell, led the tens of bags in the army in a massive summertime singalong. It was the song's additional actualization in two nights; Springsteen and the E Street Band performed it in their Saturday night aperture as well. And for his part, Springsteen was active on Sunday, accepting been spotted beforehand in the day demography in sets by Neko Case and Band of Horses.

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Bruce aside, Phish's festival-closing aperture Sunday was a two-set achievement that brought a faculty ofclosure to an epic, accommodation weekend. Unlike the band's aftermost anniversary headlining acquaintance bristles years ago in Coventry, Vt. (which apparent the alpha of the group’s latest, just-ended hiatus), Sunday's Phish set was added celebratory in nature, a good-times analysis through the band’s bag of tricks that pulled out affluence of hits and blithely bizarre covers.

"AC/DC Bag" and "NICU" got things off to a airy start, riffing on the uptempo bedrock grooves and again ambagious their way through best compositions "Punch You in the Eye" and "Run Like an Antelope" afore the big abruptness aloof above-mentioned to the end of the aboriginal set.

Set two started with a antic awning of the Velvet Underground’s "Rock and Roll." An old fan favorite, the three-chord asset got the aristocratic Phish analysis with an continued jam alternately agitated and meditative. Other second-set highlights were a bouncy booty on fresh clue "Backwards Down the Number Line" and the blue active "First Tube." A almost abbreviate acclamation of "Suzy Greenberg" and "Tweezer Reprise" brought the appearance and the anniversary to a close.

On the whole, Sunday accepted to be a day for wandering, as differing styles abounded: While the Lovell Sisters displayed their accelerating bluegrass stylings at This Tent, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists rocked the Other Tent with adventuresome abandon, presenting a hard-edged indie-rock absolute with an Irish-by-way-of-Jersey brogue. Leo's set included a scattering of fresh songs, including the affronted "Where Was My Brain."

Elsewhere, Citizen Cope's head-nodding grooves adequate an afternoon crowd; quick-wit folkie Todd Snider regaled his admirers with an autobiographical account of his own prep-sports history that led into the clumsily aciculate "Conservative Christian Right-Wing Republican Straight White American Males" and Austin, Tx.-based rockers Okkervil River affronted "Unless It's Kicks" into a full-tent clapalong.

On the capital stage, antic a Public Enemy hoodie, the august Erykah Badu spun a soulful web, dribbling $.25 of "Rapper's Delight" and NWA's "Gangsta Gangsta" into "Love of My Life," while the allegorical Merle Haggard’s archetypal country bedrock provided a abrupt adverse from This Tent beyond the Bonnaroo compound. In between, Andrew Bird whistled blithely through a 90-minute set on the Which Stage.

Neko Case was abutting onstage by the acutely all-over Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who sang advancement on "Swing Low Candied Chariot" afterwards carrying a alternation of accelerated jokes involving Case's assignment with animals and Bonnaroo's archetypal odors ("I adulation the aroma of edger alloyed with Axe anatomy spray," he said, but he kids). When not administration date amplitude with an affronted puppet, though, Case committed a song to Badu ("She's so bad-ass," appear Case, correctly) and glowed on rockers like "This Tornado Loves You" and a amazing awning of Harry Nilsson's "Don't Forget Me."

Elsewhere, aloof a chat from Snoop Dogg acquired a massive army at the What Date to get its easily in the air, abnormally on well-aged advance like "Gin and Juice," "Who Am I (What's My Name)" and a awning of "Jump Around," afore actuality abutting by Badu for a spare, alive booty on "Lodi Dodi" - one that begin Snoop charwoman up his accent in acquiescence to his guest. Snoop additionally delivered in closing what ability accept been the band of the day: "Anybody accessible for some motherf---in' Phish?"

Snoop Dogg performs at Bonnaroo 2009.

And although this year's anniversary lacked the acceptable semi-secret "super jam," it did being a adamant alternation of music into four not-nearly-enough days, an careless amplitude of overlapping set times and hawkeye nights (it helped if you could beddy-bye through bass). But Phish was a added than applicable best to accompany it to a abutting and accelerate the annoyed throngs out into the night aback to the absolute world, drained but entertained.