CMT Blog: Germany

Hey everyone, Sorry it’s been a couple days since our European tour ended. Between the jet lag and immediately playing three U.S. dates, including Lollapalooza, I have been just trying to recover and regroup! Let me recap the France show and the end of our trip …

We flew from Norway to France and as I was saying in the previous blog, it was a long travel day … Starting in Seljord, traveling to Oslo, then to Lyon, France (via Munich, Germany), then a drive to Craponne, France. Getting to the festival grounds, though, really made everything all right. A beautiful location for a festival, up in the hills and overlooking some amazing landscape. Again, plenty of cowboy hats and jeans and Western style of clothing. Kind of feels like you are playing a festival somewhere in the mountains of California … until people start talking! It was back to using the most basic words of communication like “hello” (bonjour) and “thank you” (merci).

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Bluegrass in the U.S. is barely a curiosity anymore, not since O Brother. Not so here in Germany. A few stalwart supporters and curious music lovers are enough to make touring viable, but it’s a lot like being in a traveling freak show. You get up on stage and play, some nights you get wild applause and a double encore. Other nights, blank stares. Like Jeremy says, “They looked like they were being milked.” Read more…