{"id":5720,"date":"2017-01-28T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2023-09-04T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T00:09:53","slug":"2017-music-festivals-mr-dylans-big-birthday-blowout-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=5720","title":{"rendered":"2017 Music Festivals: Mr. Dylan’s Big Birthday Blowout Bash."},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is really just a huge party thrown by my friend out there in Kansas City Dylan Thomas Dorrell<\/a> who runs a shindig called Double D Productions.  Along with the folks over at Muddy Roots<\/a> whom are some of the top contributing folks to my website present the tenth annual Dylan’s Big Birthday Blowout Bash 2017. This transpires Feb 9-12th 2017 at three venues in Kansas City, and the separate dates will have the band AND venue links available for you to click on to do some research if you’d like to.<\/p>\n

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I’ll be down there in May for the Westport Roots Festival<\/a> if all goes according to plans sometimes with me the old body cannot always do it all anymore and I’m just taking life one day at a time. As long as I can do this, I plan to I can promise you that much. as far as festivals go, I try to change up some of them every year so I can juggle many of them but I’ll be honest I have my favorites and a few of them are just juggernauts on the scheduled bands.<\/p>\n

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I have literally over 100 current lineups POURING into my inbox from California to New England with Americana, Red Dirt, Bluegrass, Country, and Bluegrass..and other genres as well. There are quite a few things I would like to bestow upon all of you concerning this event, some news about a few of the bands here on this list I don’t always get to write about as much as I would like to.<\/p>\n

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I recently had an enlightening conversation with Mr. Travis W.T. Newton from a band I covered a few years back at Muddy Roots Main festival in Cookeville, County Graves<\/a>. If you will recollect my previous coverage from Muddy Roots, they performed a damn fine set in what was their last performance together in that juncture. Back in 2015 HERE<\/a> is my write up from their performance on stage 3. I shall NEVER forget that incredible gospel medley they closed their set with last time, now for the first time in awhile they are returning to Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club<\/a> on the Sunday leg of this festival type deal.<\/p>\n

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I recently spoke with Mr. Travis Newton concerning the ordeal and here is what he had to tell Gary Hayes Country:<\/p>\n

This is going to be an interesting one for us, because the lineup is going to have two of our best friends that never played with CG before on top of the original three piece that is Nate McReynolds (Upright), Benjamin West (Mandolin), and myself. The two new guys are Baker McKinney from Shawn James & The Shapeshifters playing banjo, and Tyler Giles playing pedal steel. It’ll be a really fun and really intense show and I can’t wait.<\/p>\n

As far as the future goes, I can’t really say what’s gonna happen. We always plan to play at least once a year and have a damn blast when we do. It’s sort of difficult because we’re all so spread out, but worth it when it all clicks. Nate and Ben are two of my best friends in the world and my two favorite folks to play music with. There’s gonna be something more for County Graves down the line at some point, I’m just not sure what exactly yet, there’s something on the horizon though.<\/p>\n

Here’s the set list:
\nSometimes They All Come Back
\nPart II
\nCalvary Hill
\nArkansas
\nDry Counties
\nDust
\nIllinois Blues
\nHome Fires (WTN)
\nOld Pine Grove (WTN)
\nBloody Williamson
\nHellfire Victory
\nSt James Infirmary
\nNo Mansions<\/p>\n