With the addition of the Bay Area’s wildly popular indie-folk/Americana trio the
T Sisters, Sonoma County Farm Trails announces the final lineup for its
Gravenstein Apple Fair Benefit Concert on August 14 in Sebastopol’s Ragle Ranch Regional Park. Distinguished by close harmonies, catchy melodies and potent lyricism, the sisters have supported such acts as The Indigo Girls and Todd Rundgren and have appeared at Outside Lands, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.
Opening acts for the day-long musical extravaganza include the Whiskey Family Band members of Poor Man’s Whiskey which regularly plays to crowds in the Bay Area’s largest venues and has been described as “a cornucopia of thumping bluegrass, high flying rock and roll, strutting disco and twangy country grit served up hot with a glass of comedy to cleanse the palate in between courses.” Special guests Josh Brough (co-founder and songwriter for Poor Man’s Whisk
Column: On Legacies And Lawsuits, Who Was Really First, And The Rapid Bourbon Festival Sell-Out
Column: On Legacies And Lawsuits, Who Was Really First, And The Rapid Bourbon Festival Sell-Out
Bourbon is broken. Sounds really funny if you sing it like Cat Stevens’s song, “Morning is Broken.” But writer Brent Joseph’s claim that “bourbon is broken” because it’s stalked and hoarded and resold on the secondary market and drives up prices lacks all humor because it’s all happening at the hands of unscrupulous buyers and resellers.
In his four-part Bourbon & Banter opinion piece, Joseph dives deep into why the fun is spilling out of the hunt for good whiskey bourbon especially because the allocated stuff is usually beyond the hands of, well, anyone who wants it legally. He credits buyers and flippers who’ve cleverly figured out the timing of special and allocated releases, but like all of us, he’s not fond of those grabbling as many bottles as they can, lining them u