To bring everybody together, our fans and our friends, that was a blast.” “So we just hung out the whole time, seeing our friends – and getting to play. “We all travel so much,” lead singer/songwriter Cody Cannon explains. People came in from all over the country for it.” “And they hung out all weekend having fun with their friends. “They mostly booked their friends,” Jones says.
Whiskey Myers: Tony Kent, Jeff Hogg, Cody Tate, Cody Cannon, John Jeffers and Jamey Gleaves. Laughing now, CAA’s Meredith Jones remembers her first meeting, back in 2016, with the scrappy rockers who were doing strong regional business in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. “Even if we could sell out Soldier Field on our own, it still wouldn’t be as cool as playing there with the Stones!” “Let’s be honest,” guitarist John Jeffers levels up. Oh, and they opened for The Rolling Stones at Soldier Field. But it was one more tour de force performance in a 12-month cycle that included headlining Red Rocks after selling the legendary natural amphitheater out in 24 hours and two sold-out nights at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, the second added after the first went clean in minutes.
And they played hard.īonnaroo was a triumph. For the hundreds of people taking in Whiskey Myers’ ferocious, guitars-forward attack from beyond the covered area that was the packed “That Tent” during the coveted Friday 4:45 to 5:45 official kick-off-the-weekend time slot, they would’ve given anything to be in that organic sauna closer to the stage.įor the scrappy band of good friends from Palestine, Texas, they’d come to play. The afternoon sun burned hot the air under the tent sweltered. 26, 2022 issue: Whiskey Myers performs at TCU Amphitheater in Indianapolis on May 20, 2022.
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