Today’s L.A. Times has an update on Stagecoach, the Coachella offshoot that will be held a week after all the rave babies and goth kids leave town:
[The lineup is] even deeper than previously announced: Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Gary Allan and Neko Case have been added to the bill. Those acts will join George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Ricky Scaggs, Sugarland, Nickel Creek and others at the May 5 and 6 festival at the Empire Polo Field in Indio…
There will be four stages, 50 acts and plenty of variety, with bluegrass, “outlaw” music, L.A. alt-country acts, cowboy poetry, exhibits of western heritage, etc. Among the acts: the Flatlanders, Sara Evans, Raul Malo, Earl Scruggs, Garrison Keillor, Jason Aldean, Robert Earl Keen, Chris Hillman, Alejandro Escovedo, Marty Stuart, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and David Serby.
We’re actually intrigued by the event: Not only could we use a good primer on new-school country (for better or worse), but we’re curious about which festival will attract the most mescaline-dazed desert zombies. And we want to be there when Keillor hears the words “Arcade Fire” and immediately launches into a 26-minute story about the time the Ol’ Fitzgerald Arcade had a two-alarmer.
Super for the country types, but where the heck is the Coachella lineup?
What? No Shooter Jennings? I want the O back in country dammit!
Also on the bill, but not included in the L.A. Times write-up — Drive By Truckers, The Del McCoury Band, Abigail Washburn, Bela Fleck…a very interesting mix: http://stagecoachfestival.com/event/lineup
Where’s Cowboy Troy? Or is hick-hop so 2004?
I can’t believe they forgot Jerry Jeff Walker! A great artist AND an opportunity for a sangria wine booth…what a crock.
These kinds of things never happen at the annual Lake Wobegone music festival.
I count only three texas country artists. A travesty!
I thought Nickel Creek broke up.