Your Top Ten TBF 2011 Artists?

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So can you list the ten sets, in order, that you are most eagerly anticipating? Hard to narrow it to ten, but I’ll start:

  1. Robert Plant & Band of Joy
  2. Telluride House Band
  3. Emmylou Harris
  4. Mumford & Sons
  5. Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
  6. The Decemberists
  7. Infamous Stringdusters
  8. Steve Earle
  9. Sarah McLachlin
  10. Darrell Scott & Friends
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  1. Trampled by Turtles
  2. Punch Brothers
  3. Decemberists
  4. Robert Plant
  5. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
  6. Sam Bush
  7. Railroad Earth
  8. Mumford & Sons
  9. Old Crow Medicine Show
  10. Steve Earle
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The more I listen, the more this changes.

I’m going to “Top Ten” it with a qualifier that these are the 10 acts I’m most excited about seeing this year, not necessarily my ten favorites!

  1. Telluride House Band (they will always top my “most excited to see” TBF list)
  2. Thile / Daves – that record is pure FIRE.
  3. Darrell Scott
  4. Steve Earle – his new one is very good from what I’ve heard of it so far
  5. Yonder Mt. String Band
  6. Decemberists
  7. Punch Brothers
  8. Edgar Meyer (solo bass)
  9. Trampled By Turtles
  10. Railroad Earth
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:wave Agreed. Very much subject to constant change in my Festijumbled head…

1}THB (forever and ever, Amen) #1 1/2} Mumford/Washburm @ SOH
2}Thile/Daves
3}Flecktones
4}Jerry (#1+#4…sitting in w/everybody I hope!)
5}Darrell & Friends
6}OCMS
7}TbT ('sota on the Shelman!)
8}Steve Earl
9}Sarah McLachlan
10}Decemberists
…
99} Bushy Sam & FootSlaves f. Mewther Fooker

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  1. Telluride House Band
  2. Infamous Stringdusters
  3. Trampled By Turtles
  4. Punch Brothers
  5. Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
  6. Thile / Daves
  7. Railroad Earth
  8. Darrell Scott & Friend’s
  9. Emmitt-Nershi Band
  10. Yonder Mountain String Band
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Numbers 1 through 10: Darrell Scott and Friends.

Now, to complete the actual assignment:

  1. Darrell Scott and Friends
  2. Robert Plant and Band of Joy (which includes Darrell Scott :cheers)
  3. Sam Bush
  4. House Band
  5. Tim O’Brien and Kevin Burke
  6. Steve Earle
  7. Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper
  8. Jerry Douglas featuring Omar Hakim and Victor Krauss (Omar Hakim is the best drummer I’ve ever heard, and as a drummer myself, I simply can’t wait to see him again)
  9. Tim O’Brien Band
  10. Trampled By Turtles

Honorable mention (I really wanted to include these guys)
Stringdusters
Peter Rowan
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Emmit-Nershi
Yonder kick off
Mumford and Sons
Railroad Earth (If I hadn’t seen them twice this year already, they’d be in the top 4 or 5)
The Decemberists

This was really hard.

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wow. good question.

  1. Telluride House Band. ( without a doubt )
  2. First Grass with YMSB to follow ( I know I’m cheating here, but I don’t care :wink:
  3. Sam Bush
  4. The Original Flecktones
  5. Steve Earle
  6. Peter Rowan
  7. Robert Plant
  8. Old Crow Medicine Show
  9. Railroad Earth
  10. The Infamous Stringdusters
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  1. RRE Nightgrass
  2. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
  3. Yonder Mountain String Band
  4. Emmitt-Nershi Band
  5. Sam Bush Band
  6. Old Crow Medicine Show
  7. Chris Thile and Michael Daves
  8. The Infamous Stringdusters
  9. Robert Plant and Band of Joy
  10. Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band

Note: I can’t attend the thursday festival program so that has been automatically excluded from my list.

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This changes every day…but today, I can give a very different list than anyone else:

  1. The Head and The Heart
  2. Jerry Douglas (see Hot sugar’s Comments)
  3. Darrell Scott & Friends
  4. Stringdusters
  5. TBT
  6. Troubador ('cause it’ll be Pete!)
  7. Abigail Washburn
  8. Joe Pug
  9. The Original Flecktones
  10. Emmitt-Nershi

I had to bump Tim to make room for the Troubador. So if the Troubador is NOT Pete, replace #6 with Tim.