Heading Back To Fayetteville
Read about our musical return to delightful Fayetteville AR 25 August 2016 (day) Fayetteville Arkansas I had an overnight stop at McKinney Texas on the way from Dallas to Fayetteville Arkansas. The plan was to leave early and get the 4 1/2 hour drive out-of-the-way as early as possible. But jet lag betrayed me and I did not leave until late in the morning. The drive would now take the greater part of the day and I was on a...
Farewell Fayettevillians
Read about our last music day in Fayetteville Arkansas USA Music Tour 2015 Day 11 Jacksonville Florida 31 August The sixth fayettevilleroots festival is over. In reviewing the past three days, I can’t recall having such an easy and joyful festival experience. I have found that it usually takes a second or third go at such an event to really find your feet and make the most of the experience. But not at Fayetteville Arkansas,...
Fayettevilleroots Festival Day # Two
Read our review of day two fayettevillerootsfestival USA Music Tour 2015 Day 9 Fayetteville Arkansas On the way to the festival, some serious discussion underway. Cory Branan provides anthemic songs, magnetic choruses, wry and sharp lyrical observations and dominant guitar work. Sometimes the world-weariness and maturity leaps out. His latest album The No-Hit Wonder is gripping and was one of my top twenty albums of 2014. The album...
Fayettevilleroots Festival Day # One
Read our review of day one of Fayetteville Roots Festival USA Music Tour 2015 Day 8 Fayetteville Arkansas Fayetteville is a college town, home to the University of Arkansas. It is located in the northwest of the State, deep in the Ozark Mountains, and is Arkansas’s third-largest city with a population of around 80,000. Even though our stay here will measure five nights, we are not going to get anywhere near a broad view of the...
Fayetteville In The Ozark Mountains
Read our lead-up to day one of the Fayetteville Roots festival USA Music Tour 2015 Day 7 Fayetteville Arkansas Thursday 27 August The morning was all about work. Not the 9-to-5-paid-job type of work. But work requiring planning and co-ordination among the tour group. Having fun at a new festival in a new town is not that easy folks. Really! Here’s the morning list of chores for the three of us on this, our first day, given that...
ERIC BRACE & THOMM JUTZ - Circle and Square
