Leftover Salmon

Yeah.

Um, Primus, uh, Panic, uh, Leftover Salmon, you know, just those guys.

Yeah.

They're fun too.

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

Leftover salmon.

Yeah.

Once, Elizabeth Taylor made a surprise appearance with her then-husband, Virginia Senator John Warner.

Rumor has it that members of Old Crow Medicine Show and Leftover Salmon have shown up at Galex under the radar just to jam and yet despite appearing well attended to my virgin eyes the old fiddlers convention's numbers are down from the previous pre-pandemic years and way down from peak galaxy folks say it's not like it was maybe as one long-time attendee speculated it's that more kids are choosing devices and passive consumption over face-to-face activity with other humans or that More and more young adults are fleeing southwest Virginia due to the gutted coal, tobacco, and manufacturing industries.

Or maybe it's just that people around there are dying faster than they're being born.

Glenn Alexander, a 55-year-old fiddler who's been going to Galex since he was a child, put it bluntly, We are all scared to death.

Yeah, it's a good time.

And then the after party, they go, they play with one of Scotty's favorite bands, Leftover Salmon, which kind of makes sense because most of Scotty's favorite bands are all named for food.

It checks out.

It checks out?

So, you know, early on when I was getting into music or getting into bluegrass after after high school and the rock era kind of basically found out about bluegrass through my friend Andy Thorne.

He's a banjo player and plays with Leftover Salmon now.

But we grew up together in Durham and we took from the same guitar teacher.

I wasn't learning bluegrass.

That was last weekend, Suwannee Roots Revival.

And, uh, Sons of Stars was there, and we saw, well, I saw a couple of really cool videos of Jason, the banjo player, sitting in with Leftover Salmon.

Now that I think about it, I feel like he's played with them before.

He played with, um, Vince and Silas at the Billy after party at Barley's.

Um, bands like Railroad Earth, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bela Fleck, Arkansas's-

Leftover Salmon, I think, is a band

...

Leftover Salmon.

Yeah, I mean, there's so much.

And Leftover's no more.