2020 - Kickin’ It on the Creek is now one of the best music festivals in Appalachia, organized by Byron Roberts of Wolfpen Productions and staged in Ross Creek, Kentucky, at Robert’s farm. The festival started in 2015, after a successful celebration for Robert’s son and a CD benefit for Tyler Childers in 2014. Since then, Kickin’ It on the Creek has been featuring local and regional bands in the mountains of Estill and Lee County Kentucky, as well as practitioners of traditional music styles from all over the country. This album, “Just Behind the Creek: Field Recording at Kickin’ It on the Creek 2019” was recorded at Robert’s living room just behind the stage, and shows a wide variety of music with renowned and talented musicians playing traditional tunes as well as their own beautiful original songs. The record features various artists such as Grammy nominated fiddler Bobby Britt (Town Mountain), Jesse Wells (Tyler Childers & The Food Stamps), Joe Macheret (The Tillers & Joe’s Truck Stop), Montana Hobbs (The Local Honeys), Chris Shouse (Hancock & Shouse), Teresa Prince (Luna and the Mountain Jets), Brett Ratliff, Senora May and many others, and “truly captures the magic of this mountain music we so dearly treasure” as told by the festival owner Roberts. He also says, “Music heals in a lot more ways than.
29 Songs
- Bobby Britt - Improvisation / Little Pine Siskin / Out of the Woods 03:43
- Bobby Britt - Existential 01:55
- Teresa Prince - Pepsi Girl 02:01
- Brett Ratliff - Pass Around the Bottle 03:29
- Blakeley Burger - Glory in the Meeting House 02:02
- Blakeley Burger & Don Rogers - All Night Long Blues 03:41
- Blakeley Burger & Don Rogers - Bluegrass Meadows 02:41
- Don Rogers - Greek Medley 01:47
- Montana Hobbs - I Love My Honey 04:22
- Montana Hobbs & Blakeley Burger - Boatin' Up Sandy 02:59
- John Thomas - Ashokan Farewell 02:40
- Walter DeBarr - Oceans 03:01
- Ritch Henderson - The Semblance of Movin' On 04:26
- Ritch Henderson - If It's Only for Tonight 04:40
- Joe Macheret - Red Mountain Wine 03:09
- Sean Geil - Bowling Green 02:09
- Sean Geil - I Saw A Man at the Close of Day 02:20
- Chris Shouse - Don't Have a Clue 03:13
- Chris Shouse - Darkness for the Light 04:12
- Crownover - Alive (somehow) 03:08
- Zach Russell - Dust on the Pillowcase 03:16
- Jesse Wells - Muddy Creek 01:58
- Jesse Wells & Will Parsons - Bluegrass Meadows 02:32
- Jesse Wells & Will Parsons - Uncle Joe 03:28
- Abe Partridge - Worried Mary 01:24
- Abe Partridge - Appalachian Farewell 04:32
- Padre Paul Handelman - Gypsy Home 03:40
- Senora May - All of My Love 01:34
- Senora May - Semper Fi 03:21
