Less than a week after the conclusion of Coachella, the Country Stagecoach Music Festival has attracted another crowd in tens of thousands for most of the empires without grass in Indian, California. I will be here all weekend to bring you ups and downs as they happen. This is what happened on day 1:
Big Stage, Big Show
Three years after he made his debut in Stagecoach in 2022, Zach Bryan returned to lead the first night of the festival with a jumbo size in which he and a band of more than a dozen players passed approximately 30 songs (and in the process he went far beyond his Corfw Schedulated). The music was irregular but moving, and as in each Bryan concert, he inspired the people of the crowd to shout their lyrics on the faces of the other.
Using what he said was the same sleeveless t -shirt of the Indian motorcycles that had been in Stagecoach last time: “I thought it was nice,” said: Bryan thanked the audience profusely, that he inevitably felt like a little damage control after his ex -girlfriend, Podcaster Brianna Chickenfry, was public last year with accusations that he had been emotional abusive. (Bryan did not respond directly, but wrote on Instagram that he was “without false for the false s, people say on me online”).
But if his career seemed in danger just a few months ago, nothing about his reception here suggested that the enthusiasm about him has cooled. He even went out with his doing an uploading version of the “lawyers, Guns and Money” by Warren Zevon, who called his favorite song of all time, and that almost no one in the field seemed to know.
An unexpected revelation
The head of the King's Wool Set, which occurred when it has been causing the launch of an alleged country album that may or may not fall next month, is that once bathed with Morgan Wallen, at least if the lyrics of one of its new roots songs is to believe.
“I kissed Morgan Wallen / I guess kissing me went to his head,” he sang on the strict acoustic guitar (after telling the audience that this would be the last time he would sing the lines), “If you want my secret to success / I suggest that they do not go with him when you are west.”
OK!
Let's not let that bomb pretend to savor some of the other peculiarities of this song, which is obviously called “57.5” after the number of monthly listeners of Spotify, of the king, who once had: “I obtained 57.5 million listeners in Spotify,” she sang, and that she also made her reveal that she speaks with Jesus, hates everyone and still flies commercially. “Do you need an autograph?” She sang with a little shoulder shrink. “S—, I don't care.”
Acting in a set invented to resemble the porch of a Field of Forest, of the King debuted with a couple of other new songs, including one that seems to be about his captain of a husband of chaos, and one that fans are calling “calm in the south.” She covered “Stand by the man” by Tammy Wynette and “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver, and she took the promising and promising punk to George Birge to make her “Vaquero songs.”
He also sang slightly rural versions of “video games” and “summer sadness” that made you think of how durable Del Rey has been during the last decade and changes even when he took advantage of all the opportunities available to prove his limits.
Maybe that's why.
TJ Osborne, on the left, and John Osborne of the Osborne brothers in Stagecoach on Friday.
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Five minutes in the backstage with the Osborne brothers
How often do you smoke your hair?
TJ Osborne: Never.
John Osborne: Never?
TJ: Never.
John: Wow. Once I'm a week.
How many not read text messages do you have?
John: Six. And two emails not read. I try to keep it below 10.
Anyone besides you know the access code to your phone?
John: My wife. However, I do not know the code of access to hers.
TJ: Whatever party in my house and say: “What is the access code? I have to change the music.” I'm like, “ok, here you are.”
You don't have to say with whom, but are you currently involved in a beef with someone in music?
TJ: Oh, always.
Do you prefer to be 10% more talented or 10% better?
John: I have a lot of talent.
Name a country song that you would like to be able to sing, but you know you can't.
John: Almost any Chris Stapleton song.
TJ: Or Vince Gill. “Rest on the top of that mountain,” just needs that tall.
What is an adult drink that has sworn?
TJ: No cinnamon drinks. Fireball, Goldschläger, any cinnamon schnapps, will not.
Why is it the last thing you used chatgpt?
John: If you come to the last in our fantasy soccer league, you have to make a comedy with an open microphone foot. And I was almost in the last place, so I used it to help write jokes. It was so bad. Chatgpt is amazing, but a horrible comedian.
Did you enter the last one?
John: Fortunately, I didn't have to use jokes.
TJ: The guy who lost, one of our friends got into a Facebook group for the area in which we live and told everyone that Nate Bargatze would make a emerging window for more strange to come to see it.
Paris Hilton Deejays in Stagecoach on Friday.
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The art (?) Of the mixture
Using dazzling headphones to coincide with the rest of his super sensible outfit, Paris Hilton took all the eight seconds to hit the crowd inside Honkytonk of Diplo with “We Found Love” by Rihanna and Calvin Harris, which mixed in the “I Weark Withmage” by Whitney Houston to open an almost evident set of DJ. Later, Hilton took Lizzo and the two shouted “I love it” from Icona Pop.
The best introduction of a song so far
Carter Faith, pushing his new single, “Grudge”: “This song is about a stupid dog that bothered me.”
The placement of more Crisca products so far
Tucker Wetmore acted on the main stage in front of a digital model of an old room with a mounted deer head, several American flags, and a sign that announces the Vodka Seltzer canned that sponsored its summer tour. WOMP-WOMP.
T-Pain acts at Stagecoach on Friday.
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Three by three
No one has been more visible on Polo lands this month than T-Pain, who after playing the two weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival limited the Stagecoach day with a night set in the Palomina tent. The veteran R&B star said that she initially had her doubts that she would be welcome by a multitude of country when Jelly Roll brought him for a surprise appearance in the Stagecoach last year: “These people do not want to listen to my s,” he said, he said to Jelly Roll. However, here, as in Coachella, his successes were like the classics they are. Paying Jelly's favor, as he said, T-Pain took another stranger in Kesha, who joined him to make his new single, “Yippee-Ki-yay”, which unfortunately is very bad.
Still trampling and applauding
A few days after Winston Marshall published an essay at Free Press on the abandonment of what he sees as an immoral music industry, the old Marshall bandmates in Mumford & Sons made a last minute appearance in Stagecoach that attracted a gigantic crowd to the popcorn. Everyone but I knew that Mumford & Sons was still so great?
Carly Pearce shows up Friday at Stagecoach.
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Five minutes in the backstage with Carly Pearce
Do you prefer to drive or be driven?
Drive. I get very sick.
What is the last thing you cooked?
Squash from Spaghetti.
How often do you smoke your hair?
Daily. I am that person, I know it's wrong.
Do you prefer to be 10% more talented or 10% better?
Ten percent of better aspect, sure.
Name a country song that you would like to be able to sing, but you know you can't.
Martina McBride, “Independence Day”. She only runs at a level that is not a belt.
What is an adult drink that has sworn?
Beer.
An indulgence?
Designer bags.
Do you have a tattoo, you regret it?
I have an rainbow butterfly on the foot that coincides with all the colors of my outfits when I was 16 years old. Now it's a bit garbage.
