The Live Music Thread

[blessingx]

6 minutes ago, mikeymad said:

Watching some Cash until Tweedy.

She and Leventhal are pretty great. Smiled the most so far with Albert Lee. 

[Voltron]

I wish I knew you were there. We could have connected 

[blessingx]

Sorry, I was remote. I would have definitely reached out Al if in person. Hope you and Claire had a good time. 

Anyone catch Steve Earle? I don’t pretend to be objective there, but was messy fun, especially in the shadow of the Dukes breakup at HSB years ago. Will throw on The Mountain in a few minutes. 

Will miss tomorrow, unfortunately. Hope everyone enjoys.  

 

[Dusty Chalk]

On 10/3/2025 at 4:00 PM, Grahame said:

I won't be able to make it in person this year, because: reasons, but

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025 https://hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/

Is about to go live with streaming on the website and the dedicated App (HSB TV)

Quite the lineup, as always.

https://hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/HSB25-Print-at-Home-Schedule.pdf

Thanks!  I will have to check out Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets tomorrow.  (2:05 on Swan Stage at Right Coast time, presumably.)

[mikeymad]

2 hours ago, blessingx said:

Sorry, I was remote. I would have definitely reached out Al if in person. Hope you and Claire had a good time. 

Anyone catch Steve Earle? I don’t pretend to be objective there, but was messy fun, especially in the shadow of the Dukes breakup at HSB years ago. Will throw on The Mountain in a few minutes. 

Will miss tomorrow, unfortunately. Hope everyone enjoys.  

 

I caught parts of Earle - but I got caught up in Courtney Barnett and just rode that out. Tomorrow is about clearing my calendar to make sure that - I'm With Her - is my priority. 

 

[Voltron]

After the morning jaunt, the plan was to start with Dan Tyminski but I took a nap instead. Claire went and enjoyed it. I arrived at the blanket one minute before Cimafunk started, which was pretty ideal. They are from Cuba but live in New Orleans now apparently. Fun stuff.

Made our way to the adjacent stage in time for Tweedy to come out and bore the snot out of everyone. The sun was in his face and his deathly pallor clearly indicated that was not routine. When he finally spoke, he said that he didn't know the sun would be here and "that's not cool, man." Wilco's California Stars was the only song that got the crowd going. At the end of the show he said that it was the first show touring for his new triple album, and thanked us for listening to a lot of new stuff. Definitely the weakest of many Tweedy shows I have seen  with Wilco, solo, and with this band with his two sons that he used to call Tweedy. Oh well.