Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

We have multiple large, huge concerts, festivals, weekend festivals that are in Golden Gate Park.

You have outside lands, you have hardly strictly bluegrass, and they've been around for a long time.

And so when people say, oh yeah, I heard about this thing, so this is similar.

These have been going on for a long time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, and, um, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

Hardly, I do love Hardly Strictly.

Is that, is that your, is that your-

Projected behind my eyes They've given me their fire tonight And I don't know about sleeping I wake in front In tongues I hear them screeching I sold my soul to the reaper man I sold my soul to the reaper man Dead at the end of the palm of his hand I sold my soul to the reaper man guitar solo

Australian Grace Cummings killed it with her recent set at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, flying high off the success of her new LP, Blood Horse.

I played her song, Witch, Witch, Witch.

If I Had the Hand of God was also in there from another Australian singer-songwriter, Julia Jaclyn, off her new LP, The Gem.

I am your host, Paul Myers, and today we have country music royalty, Americana royalty, a man who has worked with Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello; so many people, including Solomon Burke and Dolly Parton.

The legend Buddy Miller is on the show today, fresh from his triumphant appearance here in San Francisco at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, where he was joined on stage by Robert Plant and Emmylou Harris.

And we're here to talk about his new solo album that just came out about a month ago.

It's called Buddy Miller, logically, and we talk about that and so much more when episode 252 of the Record Store Day podcast kicks off right after these messages from our gratefully continuing sponsors.

Over the years, he's worked with Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, the late, great Dolly Parton, Solomon Burke, Frank Black, and Elvis Costello, and he worked with T-Bone Burnett on the TV series Nashville as a music director.

He's one half of Buddy and Julie Miller, co-host of the SiriusXM show, The Buddy and Jim Show with Jim Lauderdale.

And just last week, Buddy Miller was here in the Bay Area, where we are, where he appeared at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the amazing free festival that happens every October.

And during Buddy's set, he was joined on stage by his fellow Band of Joy member, Robert Plant; in addition to being joined by Emmylou Harris, who is one of the many guests on this album, Buddy Miller, his first solo album in 15 years.

Bring it on home.

I just missed Robert Plant at hardly strictly bluegrass in San Francisco Golden Gate Park this weekend.

Really? Yeah.

Just missed him? When they announced

that he was playing, I was like, ooh, I could go see Robert Plant.

And then somebody came into the store on Monday night and I was like, hardly strictly bluegrass is coming up.

And he was like, oh, nope, it already happened.

I was like, oh, poop.

Everyone is on their own journey, and there are only two events of the year at which I allow myself to drink as much as I please.

One of them Was last weekend when I made my yearly pilgrimage to San Francisco to hang out in Golden Gate Park for three days of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.

I had a grand time, and thanks for asking.

But at this point in my life, what drinking as much as I please looks like was two beers and a wee bit of scotch every day for three days in a row.

[laughs]

I was saying, um, I saw my friend, uh, at, up at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass last weekend.

Mm, mm.

And, um, and we saw Gillian Welch play, and I was like, yeah, man, all this AI stuff totally...