The Greencards Yeesh. This place will run you out of adjectives in a hurry. I saw the Greencards three or four years ago opening for Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, and I remember thinking, “These guys would be a good […]

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Crooked Still Tristan Clarridge is the Sammy Hagar of modern acoustic music. Fans familiar with the elegant Boston acoustic group, Crooked Still, know that wunderkind cellist Rushad Eggleton left the band a while back. Eggleton was not only a creative […]

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Blue Canyon Boys If yesterday was relatively light on actual bluegrass music—nary a banjo all day after Tim O’Brien—the festival catches up this morning: The banjos are coming out in full force, starting with last year’s TBF Band Contest winners, […]

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Good morning from Telluride. The sun is supreme in a cloudless, bluer-than-blue sky. Gonna be a warm one, and today’s exhaustingly-great lineup might make this the premo day of the fest. I hope you can listen along where you are […]

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Even if there wasn’t a single other act out here this weekend—if the whole incredible four-day lineup of artists had canceled—this alone would have been worth the trip to Telluride: To see David Byrne and his classic-art-rock dance show playing […]

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Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band It’s no secret that Conor Oberst is critically polarizing. I, for one, since he broke big in ’04, have been highly skeptical. It seemed to me that so many people were impressed with […]

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3 Girls and Their Buddy Okay, this was huge. Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Shawn Colvin take the stage together. I don’t know which of these women I was most excited about seeing tonight. Emmylou is the most accomplished. Patty […]

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Peter Rowan I’ve always used Peter Rowan’s hair at the festival as my gardening barometer for spring. If he’s sporting the hanging goose-fringe, I plant another crop of pole beans in June. If he’s wearing the snow-cloud flyaway, I don’t […]

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