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Charlie Brinson headed to Masontown, WV on July 9 – 12 for the 2009 All Good Festival and filed this report about his experience…
Let me serve you a little truth sandwich. The All Good Music Festival was my first full-on – no showering – granola bar eating – sleeping in a tent for no more than four hours at the most – festival. There…I said it. It is kind of embarrassing that I just popped my festival cherry at this age but I don’t care. The weekend was a blast and I could not think of a better place to have it happen.
Unlike larger festivals, the guys over at Walther Productions realized that deciding which band you wanted to see at a certain time is about as easy as deciding which of your friends are going to be a part of your wedding. They actually made it possible to catch every single band in the festival’s line-up and it was basically non-stop music with bands performing in and out on stages no less than 50 yards apart from each other.
Thursday, July 9th
I arrived in Masontown, WV (Population: 647) around 8pm and was getting pretty excited to get into the festival. It was an adventure getting into the campgrounds and I didn’t make it to the actual campsite until about 10:45pm with just enough time to spare to crack a beer while setting up my tent before Keller went on.
Jonathan Schwartz, the host of the weekend’s festivities from SIRIUS Radio’s Jam On, introduced him with a brief history of Keller’s time at All Good. Keller has played at more All Good Festivals than any other artist and he was crowned “the undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion of the All Good Festival.”
READ ON for more from Charlie Brinson about All Good 2009…
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