Michael Prewitt of Crunchgrass Supreme

You had mentioned going, kind of doing your own thing, have a little bit more control of your schedule, better control of your health.

I'm actually, it semi-worked out that we had to reschedule because the last time I was on your website, the only show that was advertised was the Chattanooga show that got snowed out, for lack of a better term, when you were going to play with Randy Steele in High Cold Wind.

And it's funny when I Googled your site today, the first thing that came up was a show to link to that.

And when you clicked on it, I didn't realize it wasn't clicking on your website.

It was this show has passed.

I'm like, oh, it's such a. harsh term to use for that show because i'm aware it passed but but anyway uh i digress you're you've got a legitimate tour schedule coming up you've got several shows in april may june and uh even july august all the way through october it looks like and different parts of the country

yeah it's um I kind of was waiting on all of these festivals, you know, get contracts and everything confirmed and then sort of posted them all at once.

And there's still a lot of dates in between those that'll fill in sort of smaller shows.

But that's the nice thing about Bluegrass is you go to, like last year, we went to IBMA as official showcase artists.

You meet a bunch of people and a lot of some of these promoters I've known are met with playing with Special C.

And so a band like ours, which is very new and definitely doesn't have the kind of international draw that you would think would be necessary to go play a show in Alberta.

The nice thing about Bluegrass is the festival scene is pretty open to new artists.

If you just know a few of those people and have a good band and have a good record and people in the band maybe that they've heard of and they've they've known you as a sideman before it's kind of the part the good things about bluegrass is that it still kind of works on that um apprenticeship system to some degree where you can kind of get come up through the ranks and then without really having to i don't know i couldn't book a show in wyoming right now uh and just some sort of hard ticket show and expect anybody to show up.

But I can go play a festival out there, and it's a good way to get your foot in the door.

So anyway, all that is to say, yeah, we've got a nice year coming up.

About how I want it for this year, a weekend or two every month at a festival and try to get our foot in the door in some different regional markets.

Any thoughts on returning to IBMA in 2026?

For sure, I'll be there, and I'm I expect the band will be playing some showcases, not as an official, I don't think you can be an official showcased artist, you know, a couple years in a row.

But yeah, we'll be there and be hanging out and playing some showcases.

It really helps that it's in Chattanooga, honestly, for me.

It's two hours down the road, or three, whatever, as opposed to Raleigh, which was eight or nine or whatever.

Actually, just from a personal opinion, how do you think the Chattanooga – Chattanooga is the only IBMA I've ever been lucky enough to go to, and of course it's local.

And so I couldn't possibly miss it.

And Raleigh, even though it's a neighboring state, it's like a 10-hour drive.

I mean, it might as well be halfway across the country.