This isn't my timeliest post ever, but so it goes. Two weekends ago, September 17th - 19th, Bristol held its annual Rhythm & Roots Reunion, a Southern music festival that is anything but country.
The music festival is held each year on downtown historic State Street. It hosts a range of performers that run the gamut from bluegrass to Cajun to rhythm & blues. The lineup is absolutely wild, and it's impossible to see everyone you'd like. It's a pretty inspired event, if I may express my personal humble opinion.
This year, some of my favorites were Langhorne Slim (whom I already liked, but like even more after seeing him perform in person) and the Red Stick Ramblers. I also found out that John Oates used to be one-half of the duo Hall and Oates, not Holland Oats, as previously thought.
If you hurry, you can still listen to a playlist of many of the featured performers on the Rhythm and Roots website, here. Next month, I'll try to post twice!
Note: As ever, my photos came from the wonderful archives of Wikimedia Commons.
