The Ride Festival presented a very Rock and Roll heavy line-up this year in Telluride Town Park. Anchored by two nights of Widespread Panic, the festival also offered up sets from Jason Isbell, Big Something, Thunderpussy, Rose Hill Drive and more all while the sun shined down on the picturesque town for most of the weekend.
While Telluride Bluegrass Festival is the granddaddy of music festivals in Telluride, The Ride Festival, now in its seventh year, has quickly become recognized for a diverse lineup and past heavy hitters such as Pearl Jam, Beck, and Widespread Panic. This year’s edition leaned a bit more on the jam band end of the spectrum, featuring headlining sets from The String Cheese Incident both nights of the festival.
THE RIDE FESTIVAL […]
Patrick Sweany can be described as a Blues Rocker with elements of Folk and Soul; he can jam out on Slide guitar and finger pick like nobody’s business. The energy this man emits is simply incredible. Think The Black Keys meets Elvis Presley meets Billy Bland meets Wilson Pickett. This man is a rock star and he proved it for a crowd of 9-5ers in their 30s and 40s last week at The Walnut Room as he showcased a bunch of songs off his new record that will be released in July.
Nirvana may have been the band that put an entire generation in flannel, and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden both sold a lot more records, but Mudhoney was truly the band who made the ’90s grunge rock movement possible. Mudhoney was the first real success story for Sub Pop Records; their indie-scene success laid the groundwork for the movement that would (briefly) make Seattle, WA the new capital of the rock & roll universe.
As a cutting-edge […]