Bonnaroo Stories

For us, personally, 2004 was the pinnacle of our band. It will never be any better than that show [at Bonnaroo]. Our band, the concept, the loose collective of people from our region playing with us — we filled a bus full of people from Mississippi and drove there and went buck wild. RL Burnside, the godfather of the North Mississippi blues scene, was with us and it was his last concert. But it was so hot when we did our gig that our dad had a heatstroke as soon as we got on stage. I caught dad as he was falling and put him in a pickup truck and we wheeled him off. [Laughs] He woke up in the back of the pickup truck and he said, “I should have fainted on stage.”