CD/DVD Salutes Bluegrass Fest's 30th

04/26/2005 8:16 PM, Reuters
Barry A. Jeckell

As the Telluride Bluegrass Festival pulls into its 32nd year, Rounder Records is commemorating the annual event's 30th anniversary with separate CD and DVD releases.

The two discs feature many of the same acts that performed during the 2003 edition of the Colorado festival -- including Bela Fleck, Emmylou Harris, Nickel Creek, Sam Bush, the Waifs, Kasey Chambers and String Cheese Incident -- but have largely different track lists.

The 13-track CD opens with veteran homegrown bluegrass act Hot Rize performing "Nellie Kane," and includes such live performance highlights as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Fishin' in the Dark," String Cheese Incident teaming with Martin Sexton on "I Wish" and Sam Bush and Friends' "Molly and Tenbrooks."

On the DVD, the Sam Bush Band's collaboration with Fleck and John Cowan on "Deeper and Deeper" opens the set. Other notable inclusions are the Jerry Douglas Band's run through "Pushed Too Far," Chambers' "Runaway Train," the Waifs' "When I Die" and Fleck and the Flecktones' "Imagine." The DVD also adds interviews with several artists, as well as fans and Telluride organizers.

This year's festival will take place June 16-19 and will feature performances by Jewel, Wilco, Bobby McFerrin, Alison Krauss + Union Station, Stanley Clarke, Fleck and Jean-Luc Ponty, David Bromberg, Earl Scruggs, Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon, Gillian Welch, Sam Bush, Kathleen Edwards and the John Butler Trio. For more information, visit the Planet Bluegrass Web site (http://www.bluegrass.com/).

Here is the "Telluride Bluegrass Festival: 30 Years" CD track list:

"Nellie Kane," Hot Rize

"Taxman," Nickel Creek

"Sweet Petunia," the Hackensaw Boys

"Not Pretty Enough," Kasey Chambers

"Fishin' in the Dark," Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

"Celebrate Your Youth," Keller Williams)

"Molly and Tenbrooks," Sam Bush and Friends

"Cluck Old Hen," the Horse Flies

"Unchained Melody," the Boomchicks & John Cowan

"Too Late Now," Yonder Mountain String Band

"Another Day," the Tim O'Brien Band

"I Wish," String Cheese Incident and Martin Sexton

"When I Die," the Waifs

Here is the "Telluride Bluegrass Festival: 30 Years" DVD track list:

"Deeper and Deeper," Sam Bush Band with Bela Fleck and John Cowan

"Pushed Too Far," the Jerry Douglas Band

"More Love," the Tim O'Brien Band

"Two More Bottles of Wine," Emmylou Harris and the Sam Bush Band

"Going to Glasgow," Alison Brown Quartet

"Runaway Train," Kasey Chambers

"Nine Pound Hammer," Telluride Bluegrass Jam

"Human Fly," the Horse Flies

"Sabra Girl," Nickel Creek

"Desert Dawn," String Cheese Incident

"Delta Queen," Leftover Salmon

"BT," Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer & Mike Marshall

"Blue Night," Hot Rize

"Too Late Now," Yonder Mountain String Band

"When I Die," the Waifs

"Imagine," Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

"Spirit Is the Journey," Sam Bush Band

"Howlin' at the Moon," Sam Bush Band

"Blue Moon of Kentucky," Telluride Bluegrass Jam

Reuters/Billboard