MP3: The Long Winters – Pushover

CMJ sent The Long Winters frontman, John Roderick, to Bonnaroo as a special correspondent. His article is both funny and true. It’s also interesting to note that his appearance with DCFC wasn’t a planned one.

Read his article here.

I’ve never actually been to one of these big festivals except as a performer, so I was excited to act as a correspondent for CMJ and to finally get out and mingle with my fellow Americans. Bonnaroo has a reputation as a “hippie” festival, probably because in the first couple of years Widespread Panic played four times, but this year the acts are more varied and it’s starting to feel like the South’s own Reading Festival. I had some press/photo credentials and decided to charge around like a sober Hunter Thompson, pressing my luck where appropriate to get the real story.