The Best Fest is a traveling festival of sorts that got it's start with a group of friends getting together to celebrate Bob Dylan's birthday 15 years ago. Last week Bob Dylan turned 75 and The Best Fest put on two nights of Dylan Fest at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Dylan Fest, like all the events that are put on by the Best Fest, was both a celebration of music, as well as a communal concert experience that was shared between fans and all of the incredible musicians that come together for these shows. The unique experience of these Best Fest events is not only witnessing musicians team up who do not regularly play together, but also seeing these musicians feel so proud to be paying tribute to a fellow musician and artist that they themselves hold so dear. Dylan Fest celebrated Bob Dylan's 75th birthday and benefited the amazing Thistle Farms. Thistle Farms is a community of women who provide education, employment, and healing for women who are coming from prostitution, trafficking, and addiction. Check out their wonderful products here: http://thistlefarms.org
[All words and photographs by Lindsey Best]
Setlist:
1) 115th Dream (Cabin Down Below Band)
2) Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (Shelly Colvin & Sadler Vaden)
3) The Times They Are A-Changin' (Holly Williams)
4) Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Dhani Harrison)
5) Isis (Brendan Benson)
6) Tangled Up In Blue (Bijou, Danny Masterson, Eric Pulido)
7) I Want You (The Whigs)
8) To Ramona (Rayland Baxter)
9) Cold Irons Bound (Karen Elson)
10) All Along The Watchtower (Moon Taxi)
11) Oh Sister (Cory Chisel & Adriel Denae)
12) The Man In Me (City & Colour, Ruby Amanfu, Shelly Colvin)
13) Not Dark Yet (Ruby Amanfu)
14) Wallflower (Langhorne Slim)
15) North Country Blues (Kurt Vile)
16) I Threw It All Away (Nikki Lane)
17) Don't Think Twice (Kacey Musgraves & Misa)
18) Million Miles (Wynonna & the Big Noise)
19) Lay Lady Lay (Brothers Osbourne)
20) Nashville Skyline Rag (Tommy Emmanuel)
21) I Shall Be Released (Kesha)
22) From A Buick 6 (Butch Walker)
23) Just Like A Woman (John Paul White)
24) It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Jason Isbell)
25) Tweeter & The Monkey Man (Jason Isbell)
26) Hurricane (Amanda Shires & Jason Isbell)
27) Visions Of Johanna (Boz Scaggs)
28) Every Grain of Sand (Emmylou Harris & Pat Sansone)
29) Ring Them Bells (Emmylou Harris, Wynonna Judd, Ann Wilson)
30) Like A Rolling Stone (Ann Wilson)
31) You Ain't Going Nowhere (Everyone)
