Saturday stars Shy Carter and Ingrid Andress encounter friendly crowd and good weather.
Bob Saar
for The Hawk Eye
Burlington Riverfront Entertainment kicked off its inaugural Summer Concert Series last week with free concerts by two of the area s favorite bands, Burlington rock-disco-funkers Jive Radio on Thursday and Warsaw, Illinois, up-country-rock band Stumptown featuring Jerad Harness on Friday, with new Southeast Iowa rock band Jarrod Hogan & South 55 making their debut.
Friday s crowd was the biggest of the weekend, with an estimated 800 music fans present. Stumptown put on one heck of a show. They sounded awesome, former Steamboat Days entertainment guru Mac Coffin Jr. said. Huge crowd, people stayed all night and had a great time. It was like the old South Stage at Steamboat Days.
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It s been a decade since country music audiences first met Shy Carter. At 25 he helped write Sugarland s Top 5 hit Stuck Like Glue, a song remarkable for Jennifer Nettles rap break.
Later he d partner for Billy Currington to write It Don t Hurt Like It Used To and add a rap break on the hitmaker s cover of Banana Pancakes, a Jack Johnson cover. That was definitely a stretch of the genre, Carter says, smiling (always smiling) as he reflects on his early pursuits as a singer and songwriter. Putting the soulful melodies in there, it was so well embraced that as time went on, Florida Georgia Line came out, and Sam Hunt, and all these people that were stretching the genre.”