Mule Train Records is a sponsor of the after-party for the Derek Truck’s show Wednesday night.
Tent City is a jam band whose fun, world and blues-infused music envelops listeners inside a tent of sound.
Influences include The Allman Brothers, Phish and Led Zeppelin.
Listen to two of their songs on the Mule Fest site.
Listen to Flagpole Magazine’s first ever podcast inspired by the second annual Mule Fest!
The podcast offers almost 15 minutes of music samples from Ken Will Morton, Adam Payne Band, Lee Boys, Incredible Sandwich, Lefty Williams, Betsy Franck and the Bareknuckle Band, Lefty Hathaway, Half Dozen Brass Band, Young Goodman Brown and Trey Wright with commentary by Michelle Gilzenrat, Flagpole’s music editor.
This is only a sample of the excellent music enjoyed the weekend of August 21 through 23. People who commented on Flagpole’s Web site pointed out some great artists that didn’t make the podcast, including Avery Dylan and Harp Unstrung.
In a story that ran in the Thursday, August 20, 2009 edition of the paper, The Athens Banner-Herald profiled the amazing efforts of both Ryan and Jill Kelly in running Mule Train Records and implementing a new music festival in Athens.
April Moore Skelton wrote the story. On the Athens Life Unleashed Blog (run by the Athens Convention & Visitors Bureau staff), she commented on the Mule Fest announcement with the following:
I really enjoyed talking to Ryan and Jill Kelly, the founders of Mule Train Records and Mule Fest about their plans for the label and growing the festival. They are some of the most ambitious people I’ve ever met.
Also, jake—a small magazine published by The Athens Banner-Herald—reprinted the story in their August 20-26 issue.
