Move over Thanksgiving. Even if you’re not done with leftovers, now is the time to shift gears to the next holiday season. Keystone, Frisco and Copper Mountain are preparing with a weekend, or more, of.
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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Judas and the Black Messiah- Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield
The Little Things- Denzel Washington, Jared Leto
The Virtuoso- Anthony Hopkins
Painkiller- Michael Paré, Bill Oberst Jr., Khalimah Gaston
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones “When God Was Great”
Staind “Live: It’s Been a While” (Their first album in nine years. Recorded at a reunion show at Foxwoods Casino in CT, in 2019)
Weezer “Van Weezer”
Nancy Wilson “you and me” (Heart singer-guitarist’s first solo album, a mixture of original songs and covers; guests: Sammy Hagar, Duff McKagan, Taylor Hawkins)
Van Morrison “Latest Record Project Volume 1” (28-song double album)
BRAND NEW GOOD OLD DAYS next week, heralding their return to Compass Records. The band, which is widely regarded as one of the architects of the jam band scene, has been brewing its own potent blend of bluegrass, rock ‘n’ roll, folk, Cajun, soul, zydeco, jazz and blues for over 30 years and continues to be one of the most popular acts on the festival scene. Syndicated radio show Folk Alley premiered co-founder Drew Emmitt’s song “Flyin’ at Night” this week; the track is also available to stream on all digital service providers HERE.
Folk Alley writes: “Leftover Salmon s ‘Flyin at Night’ rolls up the runway with glances off the snare, gaining speed with jaunty piano rolls, taking off and ascending into the stratosphere as striding banjo rolls weave around bopping organ strains … the song conveys the exhilaration, the wonder, the newness-in-the oldness, the freedom of flying and life on the road.”
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