Jeff’s set was great! It was just a very dark, moody vibe. Not your typical bluegrass festival set.
Here’s a link to RRE’s opener last night in KC - 7 Story Mountain - RRE - 7 Story Mountain - Bluegrass in the Bottoms KC 2019
Just spent the last few days catching up with my old pal Sage Cook. He was in and out staying with us while his band had rehersals and on the way to and from a mini tour of MO, AR, and OK. His new band We Dream Dawn is killing it and so close to finishing his masterpiece album.
Anyway, caught two of their three shows this weekend in Eureka Springs AR, and Tulsa. They picked up Chris Combs and Josh Raymer of Combsy and the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey on guitar and drums. Hoping this new line-up keeps going as they are truly breathing new life into some of those older ER songs of Sage’s and the new material Sage and Aera are putting together is really good. If you are unfamiliar go check them out, they play Campout for the Cause couple weeks before TBF.
So tomorrow night we will have the pleasure of seeing Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. Should be awesome! Oh I almost forgot they have an opener…Yes I said opener…LOS LOBOS should be epic! Caught TTB streaming on Nugs.net on Friday from LA and was completely blown away!
Los Lobos rocks. We’ve seen them a few times good stuff.
Yes they do! Saw them in the OL Box Canyon in 2007. Phenomenal! Blew away a lot of folks that had never heard them before! What kills me is they are the opener! TTB was unbelievable last year at TBF!
Dead & Co @ the Gorge.
So Pirate, since you’re seeing these shows pre-Telluride this means that you ARE seeing Telluride- right? RIGHT?
Alas, Billy we made it last year, but this year we are doing a motorcycle tour of the Black Hills, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Park! So maybe in 2020. We will miss you! :pirate
No tequila 4 U!
Oh I will find some along the way my friend!
Wasn’t Bluegrass in the Bottoms a blast? That was one of the best Railroad Earth sets I’ve ever seen. The shows on Saturday were fantastic, too. My crew are huge SCR fans, so we knew the Steeps set was going to be great. But how about that Grateful Grass set with Keller and the Stringdusters? WOW. Lindsay Lou was fabulous, too. They had some sound issues with Trout Steak early in the day, but they still brought it. Anyway, my group all agreed that we wanted to come back to Kansas City next year. It was a really nice little festival. Plus, we ate our way through as many barbecue meals as we could find. YUM.
Agreed on RRE! It was definitely a cosmic set.
And kudos to Mammoth for bringing in the Dusters on the BGITB KC bill, as they aren’t doing Telluride. Moving the show inside worked out well, even though the space was more limited. We were 10 feet from the stage, and Andy Hall just destroyed it, on Dobro. What a set it was!!
This warm up fest, definitely got me in the Telluride mood.
Curious, has RRE replaced Andrew Goessling, or are they just forging ahead without him?
They had some guy with them at the Bender who played guitar, banjo and pedal steel and he killed it, IMO. Replacing Andy is impossible, but I found myself hoping the guy the have now sticks around. I feel like someone said he used to play with Elephant Revival, but I’m not sure about that.
That dudes name is Mike something, he may have sat in with ER but he was never part of the band. The multi-instrumentalist from ER was originally Sage Cook, then Charlie Rose the last 3 years.
The dude’s name is Mike Robinson, who previously played with Jeff Austin.
Though no one can replace Andy, Mike is a stellar musician in his own right. Mike played Banjo, Acoustic Guitar (He was ripping some sweet leads), and pedal steel.
The RRE set a BGITB KC was shorter, as they weren’t headlining, and I hope they start playing ‘Head’ again at future shows, as I miss those Banjo rolls that Andy put to that tune!
Free Steep Canyon Rangers concert in Atlanta to kickoff Memorial Day weekend!
Heading into San Francisco tonight to see Molly Tuttle, and I can not wait!!!
great consolation to missing out on War and Treaty at Lagunitas Brew, second round tix sold out in less than a minute and my internet was too slow to catch em.
MS TUTTLE HERE WE COME!
Wasn’t that a blast! What a great night at the Indy. I’ve known the family for a long time and their kids’ (?) success is all earned and due to hard hard work.
Sullivan Tuttle’s guitar playing was outstanding. When he announced the Dylan cover, I yelled out “Happy Birthday”. But he didn’t know it was Bob’s birthday.
Hung out with Maureen and Jack and kept thanking them for bringing such great kids into the world to make music for us all to enjoy.
The encore “Standing on the Moon” was a complete surprise.
Blue Summit goes to England in a few days. I could def see them on the Shellman stage at some point. AJ is a great player and bandleader.
Thanks for supporting Molly. Still can’t get “Sleepwalking” out of my head.
It was such a good show!! I agree completely, Blue Summit was incredible! Wish I could see the entire thing again tonight! Can not wait, the solstice can not get here soon enough!