T Shaw's Progressive Bluegrass
Aug 5, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 13 segments
Full recap of season four, with some clips from each episode! Season five is right around the corner make sure to tune in!
Trevor ShawHost
For anybody that's been following me this season, I went to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and I was on the fence if I was going to go until I cleared the city limits.
Should I go? Should I stay home? Should I not spend the money? It's a bucket list.
Regardless, it was an ongoing theme of season four, and we're gonna go to the, do a quick little recap, quick tidbit from episode one of season four.
I think it's safe to say the longest standing bluegrass festival with any significance is, I believe, since 1974, Telluride, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, since 1974.
Grey Fox, I believe, is runner-up, but they didn't start until 1984, 10 years later.
I mean, you could do it in two torturous days if you had multiple drivers, but it's not easy to fly to.
If you fly into Denver, you've still got a seven-hour drive, so you gotta rent a car, go seven hours, and lodging's almost impossible.
Uh, even camping's not easy in Telluride, 'cause of course you get extreme temperatures, both cold and hot, so you have to have more than just light camping gear.
It makes it a lot harder to fly when you gotta have all that gear, or you gotta pay for glamping and have it all set up for you in advance, which makes it really expensive.
It's got huge history, but I'm excited to say Randy Steele and the High Cold Wind, who has...
Randy Steele's been on the podcast before, a couple times actually, uh, had a amazing IBMA performances this last fall, but they are in the band contest for Telluride this year.
For anybody that's been following me this season, I went to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and I was on the fence if I was going to go until I cleared the city limits.
Should I go? Should I stay home? Should I not spend the money? It's a bucket list.
Regardless, it was an ongoing theme of season four, and we're gonna go to the, do a quick little recap, quick tidbit from episode one of season four.
I think it's safe to say the longest standing bluegrass festival with any significance is, I believe, since 1974, Telluride, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, since 1974.
Grey Fox, I believe, is runner-up, but they didn't start until 1984, 10 years later.
I mean, you could do it in two torturous days if you had multiple drivers, but it's not easy to fly to.
If you fly into Denver, you've still got a seven-hour drive, so you gotta rent a car, go seven hours, and lodging's almost impossible.
Uh, even camping's not easy in Telluride, 'cause of course you get extreme temperatures, both cold and hot, so you have to have more than just light camping gear.
It makes it a lot harder to fly when you gotta have all that gear, or you gotta pay for glamping and have it all set up for you in advance, which makes it really expensive.
It's got huge history, but I'm excited to say Randy Steele and the High Cold Wind, who has...
Randy Steele's been on the podcast before, a couple times actually, uh, had a amazing IBMA performances this last fall, but they are in the band contest for Telluride this year.
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