Railroad Earth (Stillwater, New Jersey)
For over two decades, Railroad Earth has captivated audiences with gleefully unpredictable live shows and eloquent and elevated studio outputs. And now we get them for our Saturday night main stage headliner! Between selling out hallowed venues such as Red Rocks they’ve launched the longstanding annual Hangtown Music Festival and Hillberry: The Harvest Moon Festival both running for a decade-plus. Beyond tallying tens of millions of streams, the collective have earned widespread critical acclaim from David Fricke of Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Glide Magazine, and NPR who assured, “Well-versed in rambling around, as you might expect from a band named after a Jack Kerouac poem, the New Jersey-built jam-grass engine Railroad Earth has let no moss grow under its rustic wheels.” This year they recorded their seventh studio album, All for the Song, produced by Anders Osborne behind the board as producer. It might’ve been the gumbo, but the guys seamlessly absorbed the homegrown flavors of the Big Easy by osmosis incorporating horns, blues harmonica and the producers own perspective and guitar playing. ‘It’s no wonder these guys are headlining Bluegrass, Jam and Rock-n-Roll festivals across the country all summer long!