Made in America: Gary Clarke Jr., DJ Shadow

While bluesman Gary Clark Jr., who also performed Saturday, killed it one more time on the Liberty stage, festival force majeur Jay-Z watched from the side of the stage. Geoff Gordon, the regional president of Live Nation, whose Philadelphia office promoted the fest, said in an earlier interview that the rapper / entertainment mogul was involved in the Budweiser Made In America planning on every level. "He wanted to know about the food trucks," Gordon said. (Which were serving up quite tasty fare, by the way: I'm eating butter chicken from Indian restaurant Tashan as I type this.)

Meantime, over at the DJ tent, the glow stick crowd were moving in sync to pulsating rhythms being pump out by a series of laptop and turntable specialists, including Milkman, The Knocks and Betatraxx. DJ Shadow stood out, pushing deep bass grooves that appealed to the head rather than just accelerating the heart rate, and he almost Made it bearable to stay for an extended duration in the high temperature tent, whiCh smelled like a locker room with a floor of wet grass.

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