WANEE FESTIVAL | 04.13 & 04.14 | FLORIDA

everyone doesnt have to hate on keller ?!

The reviewer doesn’t appear to be hating, just calling it like he saw it I guess. I left for Mule right after "Freaker" because I also felt like I was seeing nothing new. The Nokia show recently in NYC blew this set away. Keller was good but not everybody brings it every show, even if you love them.

The Midnight DTB w/ Susan Tedeschi was a major highlight. Tedeschi’s bluesy, sexy voice blends in perfectly with Mike Mattison’s on tunes like The Bands ”Don’t Do it” (listed as "Don't Break My Heart" above) and Derek and the Dominos; ”Key to the Highway. The cover of the "Weight" was great but didn’t come close to the energy level when they played it Aretha style at the Warren Haynes Jam in NYC a few weeks earlier w/ The DTB & Eric Krasno (Soulive). For me the musical highlight of the encore was the "We're A Winner". A Curtis Mayfield penned song recorded by The Impressions in 1967. It is such a great song and it was the first time they have ever played it. Another interesting tidbit was that Derek was playing a Gold Top Les Paul once owned by Duane Allman for the "Walkin Blues" duo with Susan.

Being an "old school hippie" I thought Rose Hill Drive kicked major ass on the "Shroom Stage". Love those guys!

All in all… nice review of a great festival. The late night electric and acoustic jams in the woods, drum circles, friendly peeps, and amazing camping facilities make this festie a jewel.

So there I was sitting in the Jacksonville Airport getting ready to come back to Memphis, depressed as shit that one of the best festies had come to an end, and Keller walks right past me. I was speachless at first but I gathered the courage and walked up to him. He was nice enough to let me take a picture with him and blab on about how fucking cool he is.... Wanne is a great place to be and I can't wait for next year.

I believe the link is wrong at the bottom of the review. If you ar looking for some web hosting go to wanee.com If you are looking for more information about Wanee Music Festival go to http://www.waneefestival.com/. The show was awesome by the way Susan was defiently the highlight.

just tellin it how it is with keller

cant wait to rediscover this great musician with the wmd's at summer camp

festi!i!i!

great review, sounds like a fun time. i need to see rose hill drive, keep hearing good things about them. agreed on the keller thing, he's one of my favorites, but the material has been repetitive for a while now. the wmds will be a nice change

Keller please join a band. String Cheese has an opening. Sounded great with Cheese @ 10klf last year. The Allman camp can sure throw it down

decent review, wish it could have been longer and more in depth, but still good. a few mistakes, as Rich said it's "Don't Do It" and there was late nite music both nites just not at the stages. My highlights of the weekend, well other tan both nites of G-Mule and the Bros., was definitely.....
1. The Radiators-1st time to see these old dudes and man can they rock. "Waiting on the Rain" and a cover of "Morning Dew" had everyone at the small intimate Mushshroom stage dancing and singing along. watching the keys player drink what seemed like 30 bottles of water was fairly amusing too.
2. Oteil and the Peacemakers- i had seen these guys here last year and a few times in between, but never had i seen them play with so much passion and energy. Oteil is a true entertainer and carried the lead vocals very well in Paul Henson's absence(did he quit or what???) 1st day was spectacular, but the 2nd day was off the chain dawg! it really took off with their cover of "Kawlijah", then Jason Crosby join them with his fiddle on "Blue Eyed Savior" and then a crowd pleasing "What is Hip". Roosevelt Collier joined on the pedal steel for "Turn On Your Lovelight" oh yeah things were getting all funky and hot by now! A tight "Pull Together" followed and then a few songs later Oteil brah Kofi joined with some flute action on "Payday". Kofi seemed to be enjoying hanging in the crowd more than anything else all weekend, as every where i went there he was. They threw some ACDC and Zeppelin teases in the middle of "Power of Soul". To end the hottest set of the Fest they brought back out all the special guest for a soul slammming "Power in the Blood". Best set of the weekend by far and the Peacemakers really seemed to be gelling good. Mark Kimbrell's juicy tasty licks on guitar seemed to even get him salivating, cause he holds the neck of his guitar right up to his face like he's gonna lick it any moment.

OK i've rambled on long enough. LOVE WANEE, LOVE THE PARK, LOVE THE PEOPLE, SEE YOU THERE NEXT YEAR.

Hey thanks for the feed back, truth be told I was supposed to have some help writing this thing (that's why there's no mention of a lot of the sets). Can't wait for the WMD's, no offense to KW, and the Radiators were nasty both nights!

i wouldn't go so far as to call the derek set a "highlight". don't get me wrong, i think he's probably the most talented slide guitarist of all time, but for Pete's sake!! take some of that creativity and come up with some new songs brother! basically the same set w/ a different order each of the 10-12 times i've seen him. now Rose Hill Drive--there's a freakin' highlight!! rockin' off what was left of my face bright and early Saturday. these dudes are sick. i'll DEFINITELY be at the SOCO event in ATL on the 11th. And to anyone thinking of attending next year: don't go expecting the Brothers to be the best thing you'll see. I'll leave it at that. Great festie!! to the promoters: let's have R.H.D. on the 'shroom stage for 2 full sets in '08 opposite Mule. just a thought

Warren's long, frizzy hair was tucked into a ponytail, I think not. How about his long hair blowing in wind with the impending storm coming. Cocheese great feedback on the Rads and especially Oteil's over the top set.

Gee no mention of the way too short campground set Friday night. And I guess you would be disappointed in a 5 song Keller set since that is all you had time for to go catch Mule. Or how Derek's set got short because of the weather.

keller is steller

I guess the problem I have catspit in a situation where you have to make a tough choice on 2 bands you like playing at the same time at a festival... If I am seeing one and they don't grab me and hook me in by the 5th song them I'm off to check the other stage. And I surely wasnt the only one treking over to the Peace Stage once Warrens blazing guitar was bleeding through the Oak trees. But thats just me.

As for the Campground sets, if you mean the River Road Compound sets, I agree that was a bummer they put a 2am curfew on electric music this year. Last year i went on all night long. Still Pedro and Lefty and the guys did a heck of a job!

Wanee was amazing again this year. I saw Rose Hill Drive for the first time and my mom even enjoyed them. Mule stold the show. hands down.

I think keller has exhausted his looping thing. Hopefully after a stint with the wmd's he will come back to his lexicon or echoplex or whatever he isusing these days with a fresh perspective. I just wish the wmd's had a little bit more of a technical bassist

If keller shows are boring you Check out another one man looping machine, Dosh, also drummer for Andrew Bird. Not jammy like keller, but more on the indie, trance side, very cool

way more people at Wanee this year. a lot more obnoxious punks trying push and shove their way down front and riding on golf carts. i seen several people, including myself almost get run over by carts flying around the roads at nite with no lights on. like all other good festies that have excellent vibes, Wanee will slowly attract more and more punks that have no respect for the community vibe.

Wanee was one of the chillest fests iv'e attended all year. The vibes were awesome and I felt at home. Next year though I would love to see WSP join the lineup, because in my opinion I think Wanee would be the perfect fit for WSP. Keep the vibes clean

Cocheese you are right about the golf-carts. Why do people need to ride around on golf carts at a fest of that size. At times I felt like people were driving by and just being beligerant. You are right a lot more punks/college frat kids will be going to more and more fests, but don't ever let any of them ruin your fest experience.

01Roggae - I have to disagree with the WSP thing. I'm a huge fan, seen them 100 times, but they attract too much mischief for a fest of this size. I like the small, community, blues/roots/rock feel of Wanee. I like that there's tons of kids around. I'd love to see them there, I guess, but who would want to have to choose betw. Panic and Trucks/Tedeschi? Panic needs to stay with the big fests and I'll still be there to see them.

01Roggae--you'll never see a band at Wanee that is any bigger than the Brothers b/c it's their festival, and I doubt any big name band would likely play second fiddle to another in that small of a venue and lineup. I missed all the demolition derby action with the carts though. I actually saw less this year. There were, however, those obnoxious kids camped next to me that insisted on playing the Duballstars covering "Dark Side of The Moon" ALL THE TIME. When I say "kids", I mean kids. They had to be teenagers. It was almost the first murder ever at a festival. Know what I love the most though? It has been my misfortune all of the 3 years to be stationed at the Brothers' show beside either the guy who sings really loud to all the songs or the guy who hollers "Bring back Dickey!" the whole show. Beware those guys.

theres no way this guy could have been at the same keller show i was. between the epic mushroom stage, great vibes, and a "brown eyed women" what more could u have asked for... i still got like 10 hours of warren haynes so i think ill be just fine. if this guy didnt like this show im surprised hes not raving about the sister hazel show. more his speed maybe.....

i feel you just-joshin'! some of my neighbors decided which music me and the rest of the campers in our area would listen. they had some huge speakers in their duelie(?) truck and blasted John Cougar Menstural Cramp and other 80's rock all nite sooo loud nothing could compete. then at 6am they decided it was time for some more and crank it up for a bit till everyone was hollering and screaming at them. we i woke a few hours later they were gone. sooo sad. WSP will never play Wanee, it's the Family's fest and it shall stay that way for all time. Oh and Joshin', you must have been beside me, cause those same dudes singin loudly and shouting for Dickey were right behind me, along with some drunk chick that never stopped talking at the top of her lungs.

^ Sounds like a great "community vibe"

Pat,

Great review...Sorry you couldn't make the Bonobos Convergence set. We will be on the JamCam DVD for anyone else who missed. I love the Wanee festival and can't wait to get back next year. . . total community vibe. Thanks to everyone who attended and supports this great festival.

www.bonobosmusic.com

i've been at all 3 Wanee Fests and this one was by far the wildest, craziest, energetic one yet, although it seemed to not be able to duplicate a certain paradise vibe from the first year but either way, i can't help but say that i had one of the most fun weekends of my life and ALL the music was incredible. Seeing Keller on the mushroom stage was a dream. His set was great, i don't care what anyone says.

this review of it kind of sucked though.

"but something about the set seemed gimmicky to me, a rerun of something I'd seen before",,, LoL,, if you have been to more than three of Keller's concerts You have seen all he has to offer,,, worlds greatestpaid whistler,, One narc for every three people,, kinda gave a negative energy about the place,, place is fantastic if not for that,,, Allman Brothers set fri thought was better than sat,,

Sister Hazel? Ok, well like i said KW is the man but after 6 years of the same ol song and dance when is enough enough? ONCE AGAIN: I was supposed to have a co-author for this (who took my press tick and pass) who didn't contribute at all! Thats why huge chunks are missing folks! But to each his own. Word

This kinda shit happens all the time
You gotta get yours before I gotta get mine
Everything is fine when youre listening to the DOG...

Yeah, Warren Haynes tied his hair up after a few songs with his hair flying around. Derek sat in with Robert Randolph on Saturday, which was cool.

The Allman Brothers were the best, followed by Gov't Mule and Robert Randolph.

The festival had some jerks, but overall the people were friendly. And no, the jerks weren't the younger people. Most of the jerks were older people.

fun festival, bumping music, good vibes, and nice review... under the circumstances (other chick bailing on her half). one thing i know you did miss out on was that second night of Robert Randolph and the Family Band, it was steller -- Danny from RHD and Derek Trucks joining Bobby on stage was aswesome

franknjam: I actually caught the very end of one of their sets. I'd like to hear more though. I was hoping that the person helping me with the review would have been there but...oh well. Great time though.

the secret is out - Wannee Rocks !

It was beautiful weather and a great time. Thanks Warren and Company. Thanks for the Suwannee Music Park.

cocheese--maybe we should hook up before hand and camp next to each other. i got the mack spot 2 years runnin' bro! we got a water spigot and all. it's super secret, but i guess i could let you in on it's whereabouts--as long as you wont play any JCM or rap or reggae we'll be cool and the gang. and no cool and the gang either. when are we gonna get some moonshine still down there? i figured they would've already played. BRING BACK DICKEY!!!

sounds good just-joshin' as long as there is plenty o shade!

lots o shade dude!