Dante's Portland, OR Words & Photos by James Sissler What would you choose if you had to decide between seeing a legendary performer and a new emerging talent? That is the predicament Portland's music fanatics found themselves in Wednesday night, with performances by Godmother of Soul Erykah Badu and internet funk sensation KNOWER happening within a 15-minute walk of each other. Like many others, I chose to try to make both. Both concerts were part of Portland's Soul'd Out Music Festival, which has an incredibly stacked and broad lineup for 2018, including De La Soul, Tipper, Ghost Note and Zapp. The festival organizers seemed to try to make it possible to catch both Erykah Badu and KNOWER, scheduling one to start just as the other was set to end, but because Erykah Badu ended up taking the stage quite late, there was a bit of overlap. Erykah Badu (with opener R+R=NOW, a jazz supergroup assembled by the legendary Robert Glasper) was by far the most highly