The music started in the parking lot. Guitar and banjo players strummed from camp chairs set up around a cooler behind a 4Runner. The crowd was the typical bluegrass and jam-band mix that you d expect at a Leftover Salmon show in Colorado, with equal parts dudes rocking tie-dyed Grateful Dead shirts and others wearing flannel shirts with corduroy hats. Most of the women wore jean shorts or sundresses. Everybody seemed happy, and I heard many exclaim: “We’re back!”
Leftover Salmon started promptly at 7 p.m. with the titular song of the group s new album,
. Vince Herman, the Santa Claus of Colorado bluegrass music, crooned: “These are the brand new good old days / That used-to-was is stuck back in yesterday / It’s never more now than it is today / These are the brand new good-old days.”
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In the first few seconds of The High Hawks’ debut single, a flurry of pulsing electric piano, kick drum, and Townshend-esque guitar strums give way to a flat out J.J. Cale groove just in time for the first line to be sung: “If we could just find a highway.might even find a way to make it home.” And thus, The High Hawks take flight. That tune, “Heroes & Highways,” is an appropriate first taste of music from the long-time-coming, feel-good Americana cooperative, naturally expressing the range of which the bands’ members can reach. With close to 150 years of collective experience as professional touring musicians, The High Hawks Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth), Chad Staehly (Hard Working Americans), Adam Greuel (Horseshoes & Hand Grenades), Brian Adams (DeadPhish Orchestra) and Will Trask (Great American Taxi) have maintained a generation-spanning presence at the fore
Colorado-based jamgrass pioneers,
Leftover Salmon, announce a July 4 celebration as only this band can deliver: July 2-4, 2021 at The Surf Hotel in beautiful Buena Vista, CO.
The shows will all be held on the LAWN, adjacent to the hotel in the heart of Buena Vista’s South Main District.
“Our buddy Jed is building a new neighborhood (in town) centered around boating, biking, skiing, good food and live music in a sweet little corner of Buena Vista, Colorado and we will be having us a ding dang festival right in the town square, shared Vince Herman. “There’s a great hotel right there on the square so get a room and get ready to festivate on the July 4th weekend.”
BOULDER Boulder County was eating natural and organic before it became cool.
The region has been a cradle for the industry for decades, first with long-time community chains like Alfalfa’s Market Inc. and later with home-grown national upstarts like Lucky’s Market.
But in early 2020, Lucky’s Market went from a rapidly-expanding name with 39 stores across the country to hurtling down to Earth after filing for bankruptcy and selling off locations back to original owners or to other chains.
Just more than a year later, Alfalfa’s shuttered its almost 40-year old store in Boulder and its Longmont location after that was open for just under six months, followed by its final location in Louisville. BizWest has also reported that the store was saddled with millions of dollars worth of debts to its vendors as those stores were closed and was ordered by a judge in late March to pay more than $1.4 million left on a defaulted credit line with co-founder Mark Retzloff.
BRAND NEW GOOD OLD DAYS, is out tomorrow and marks the band s return to Compass Records. With praise from publications including Relix, American Songwriter, The Bluegrass Situation and many more to come, the album reaffirms the band’s ability to keep things fresh while remaining true to their musical heritage. Widely regarded as one of the architects of the jam band scene, Leftover Salmon has been brewing its own potent blend of bluegrass, rock ‘n’ roll, folk, Cajun, soul, zydeco, jazz and blues music for over 30 years and continues to be one of the most popular acts on the festival scene, headlining three sold-out nights Colorado this weekend (two at Red Rocks) before kicking off their 2021 tour dates.