Water Tower

I believe it's Pickers Anonymous, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, Veranda, and Pitney Meyer, I believe only play Tuesday, but do multiple sets.

And then on Wednesday, I believe Water Tower, John Hartford Fiddletune Project, Stillhouse Junkies only play Wednesday night, as well as Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys only play Wednesday night, the single set.

They do one night on Main Street and one night at the convention center.

Two completely different musical experiences.

A friend of mine, Prentice, who I've known for years, and in the last four or five years or so has gotten into banjo and become a bluegrasser.

He was always a dabbler.

But he told me about a band named Water Tower.

This was just three, four, probably June.

I don't know if anybody ever wants to say that, but that's why he's not here.

W- who we do have here is this amazing band from Los Angeles called Water Tower.

What's going on, boys?

What's up? Great for being here.

Um, for those of you that went to Telluride this year, you were lucky enough to catch you guys, uh, on the side stage, right? In the vendors.

But if you've been paying attention, you've been seeing these faces all over the place, and I wanted to get a little bit more behind all of you, and not just pretty boy Kenny Feinstein, right? But Kenny, let's start with you because obviously that is where this started.

Um, it's interesting because Water Tower is, quote, "a punk rock bluegrass band," right?

Mm.

And I'm Liz Wolfe.

So today we get to meet Kenny Feinstein of the band Water Tower.

Liz brings us a very surprising and interesting interview.

I think you're going to love it.

Nope.

Let's get to the interview.

Well, hello and welcome to Kenny Feinstein, band leader for the band Water Tower, which is how I met him, and has about six other projects he's working on.

So welcome, Kenny.

When my arm was paralyzed, I almost got bitter for a second.

[laughs] And then I was watching Water Tower.

Katie Feinstein is the f- their fiddle player and, and founder and songwriter of that band.

And I had just played a festival with them and, and they busk every day.

And, you know, now we're just doing a bunch of...

We have so much love for traditional music, and so we're just, you know, the Water Tower featuring John C. Reilly is like a dream come true, you know.

Yeah, that's awesome.

It's kind of cool how he actually, like...

Then I went to a foghorn string band square dance.

This is like 2003 in Oregon.

My friend brought me my neighbor up by the water tower and he was like, check these guys out.

And I walked in, I heard the music and it was like my blood started dancing or something.