If you’re planning to attend and you’ve yet to make lodging reservations, we have many options in Maggie Valley, including inns, hotels, cabins, RV parks and more.įor more information on the Hillbilly Jam, visit and for a full line-up of fairground events, visit. If you and your tribe are ready for a rocking good time, we hope to see you next weekend.
Hillbilly Jam Stage Schedule Friday, July 27 Our bands span the gamut from country and rock to traditional Appalachian music to Abby the Spoon Lady and favorites such as Jo Lasher Jr. Items for sale will include crafts, paintings, woodcarvings, clothing, jewelry and more. Along with tunes and drinks, you can enjoy food and craft vendors. This year’s event boasts a stellar music lineup as well as celebrity moonshiners you’ve seen on TV. The cost is $10 per person children 10 and under are admitted free.Īfter almost a decade in existence, the Hillbilly Jam has become a favorite for festivalgoers of all ages. If you truly want to embrace the culture of our area, join us next weekend, July 27 and 28, for the 9 th Annual Hillbilly Jam held at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm daily. During the summer months, there’s never a shortage of fairs and festivals of all types. Just a glimpse of an alternate world with the bizarreness dialed way up.Summertime is hopping in Maggie Valley, NC! Guests and locals alike are enjoying the food, arts, music and spirits of our quaint mountain town. There’s no introspection, no emotions, no message. It takes a real master to twist songs this far out of shape and make it work.Ĭlaypool and Kehoe sound like they are having a blast singing the songs they want to sing and playing them however they want to play them. The best thing about Four Foot Shack is that it’s fun. It’s so much fun, you’ll never want to live in the normal world again. Here we have a whole gang of these mutants, and the cumulative effect is something like being trapped inside a demented cartoon.Įxcept trapped isn’t the right word. A handful of songs in this vein can be found scattered throughout his 30-year career.
Claypool and Kehoe show no fear as they guide us through this alternate reality of musical back roads at top speed and with no safety net.Ĭlaypool has flirted with this sort of thing before. With only two people in the band, there is no place for timidity. On Four Foot Shack, he provides a steady rhythm for Kehoe’s guitar to launch from, but that doesn’t mean the rhythm takes a back seat. Claypool is one of the most gifted bassists alive today, and on most of his albums, the bass is featured front and center. Using only Claypool’s nasally voice, one bass, one guitar and a tambourine, along with the occasional banjo, the duo creates music that is more complex than most bands could make with six people. Musically, the source material could not be further apart, yet they all get put through the Duo’s same twangy filter and come out the other side as happily uninhibited freaks warped into things they never were meant to be. Oh, and there’s even a surf rock instrumental. The 15-song album is made of previously released material that has been stripped down and reimagined into some sort of backwoods, hillbilly stomp-rock.Ī lot of the material comes from Claypool’s own catalogue, but we also get the Bee Gees (easily the standout track), Alice in Chains and Jerry Reed mixed in with old-fashioned folksy Americana. guitarist Bryan Kehoe, has released its debut album, Four Foot Shack, and it may pose a serious threat to the way your brain processes the world around you.
Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang, the latest project from the Primus frontman and his longtime collaborator, M.I.R.V. The songs are not originals, but chances are you’ve never heard anything like this before. Les Claypool is the former frontman for Primus.
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