Two more items from the FairWell Festival.
Shane Smith & The Saints blew up after appearing on Yellowstone.
49 Winchester.
The best past of music festivals is connecting with artists who aren’t on your radar, that you wouldn’t have bought a ticket to see on their own. I was aware of 49 Winchester and Shane Smith & the Saints, but I hadn’t really followed their tracks. Now I’m on ’em like Hawkeye trailing Magua…
I know what you’re thinking… Jim is really reaching for a frontier metaphor here. Hah! Maybe so… except that Shane Smith & the Saints kicked off their set at The FairWell Fest with a heavy rendition of The Gael (Last of the Mohicans). We never get blog-worth video, so here’s a better example: a show from Red Rocks earlier this year.
The Yellowstone effect helped the band break big. Catch ’em if you can.
49 Winchester out of southeast Virginia delivers 100-proof shitkickin’ music. The themes are highly traditional: The Road; dogs; the thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning; dogs; bad romance; dogs; moonshine; dogs… It’s all delivered fresh and with all-in enthusiasm that touches country soul, Southern rock and straight-up country. They just smoke it live.
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