Tyler Childers Full Band Concert from Pickathon Set to Stream
If you’re like me, you love the smorgasbord of nightly quarantine options as your favorite independent artists take to social media to stream performances from their living rooms and such, and it’s a good way to continue to support these independent performers through this unprecedented time when they can’t tour. But man, if I hear another acoustic cover of a Van Morrison song, my head might explode. There’s just no replacing being in the field feeling the brunt of a full band blasting you in the face.
Luckily, Pickathon is coming to the rescue by letting loose of some of its legendary archive of concert footage from the festival in full set streams. For years now, the Pickathon Festival outside of Portland, OR has been on the cutting edge of recording, broadcasting, and archiving video footage in festival form, with multiple HD cameras manned by an army of volunteers and professionals capturing every moment, as well as audio quality that puts you right there in the audience.
For the next 60 days, the festival has pledged to let loose of some of its most buzzed-about performances via live stream to help us all through the Coronavirus pause. Called “Pickathon Presents: A Concert A Day,” it started on Wednesday (4/7) with The Drive By Truckers from 2017. Ex Hex will broadcast Thursday (4/8), and the set from Tyler Childers and the Food Stamps from 2019 will be airing Friday (4/10) at 3 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Pacific.
The set was captured on Pickathon’s legendary Woods Stage in the tall Douglas Fir forest that surrounds the festival grounds the weekend Tyler Childers released his latest album Country Squire. Yours truly was standing stage side for the set, and can attest to its quality. Admission is free, but the concert streams are a fundraising drive for the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund and viewers are strongly encouraged to donate.
Other artists that have been announced as part of “A Concert A Day” include Margo Price, Jeff Tweedy, Mac DeMarco, Charles Bradley (RIP), Tank and the Bangas, Thee Oh Sees, People Under the Stairs, Damien Jurado, The Lone Bellow, Foxygen, Andrew Bird, Brownout, Divine Fits, Dakhabrakha, Vieux Farka Toure, Willie Watson, and others.
Amazon Music will stream the concert through its channel on Twitch, and the concerts will also premiere on Pickathon’s YouTube channel.
Pickathon has also been slowly revealing their lineup for the 2020 season still set to take place at the Pendarvis Farm on July 30th to August 2nd. The late John Prine had previously been announced as one of the headliners.
April 9, 2020 @ 11:31 am
Isn’t Sturgill/ Sunday Valley 2011 (or ‘12) set the ultimate prize? I think that’s when you first wrote about Sturgill.
I’ll try listening, but I’ve been having trouble streaming these on my phone while working. You usually have to leave the app open and if you bump your screen it changes or the screen saver shuts it down (while working endlessly … work has been insane).
April 9, 2020 @ 12:23 pm
Yes, the Sunday Valley set in 2011 would be the Holy Grail, but Pickathon did not have its elaborate video program up-and-running at that time. There may have been a camera and a board feed somewhere, but nothing like they have today.
April 9, 2020 @ 5:42 pm
youtube has pickathon 2011 Never Go to Town Again and it is awesome.
April 9, 2020 @ 1:46 pm
i hope they’ll be up beyond the first airing.
April 9, 2020 @ 2:16 pm
Looks like they’re keeping them up for 72 hours after the premier.
April 9, 2020 @ 2:30 pm
awesome.
April 9, 2020 @ 6:55 pm
Excellent. I’m also a little surprised that the .357 String Band stream went undetected, Trig. Just Jayke and Joseph but man it was good to hear those songs again
April 9, 2020 @ 7:29 pm
It was totally on my radar for Tuesday. Then John Prine died. I have it bookmarked and might revisit it at some point.
April 10, 2020 @ 8:19 am
Can’t wait for this one today and the Saturday live stream lineup looks like it’s going be great as well.
Mike and The Moonpies @ 6:30. I’m going to single out Mike here because even with his limited choppy bandwith he’s gone out of his way to make his stream an entertaining original old fashioned TV game show intertwined with songs, old video’s, interviews, and comedy proving one more reason why this old soul is light years ahead of his competition not only musically but mentally as well. All the Moonpies chiming in with their bits is Gold…there’s no Cheap Silver here it’s all………….Solid Country Gold!!
Grand Ole Opry @ 7p
Whitey Morgan will be streaming @ 8p and (as Ward would say)….with any luck I’ll be Good and Drunk by then here at the JB mansion. (I actually live alone isolated in a small 2 bedroom townhouse in the suburbs but with all my modern technology it’s a mansion to me)
Looking forward to these on a daily basis makes the isolation bearable. Only too happy to hit the tip jar for our favorite artists that are still working hard to entertain us during this.
April 10, 2020 @ 2:19 pm
I just finished watching this and have to say I really enjoyed it. I only knew about it because of this article so also need to say a big thank you for keeping this site going in these difficult times and continuing to let us all know about the latest happenings in country music!
April 10, 2020 @ 2:58 pm
It was a killer set!
April 10, 2020 @ 5:53 pm
Tyler is awesome.. what a set. I’ve seen him 6 times and he is always just solid.. still can’t believe country squire was not a top of the year. That album will have staying power.. better w age
April 11, 2020 @ 5:10 pm
Just saw this. Great set. They are leaving them up to watch for 72 hours. Was able to download the video and the audio from Tyler’s set. As I’ve said here before his band and live sound is better after adding a keyboard player. Fuller sound and they are rocking out more too.
April 14, 2020 @ 9:42 am
Hey, hey, i was just commenting on the video being gone… comment back and we can exchange info and share some files with each other;)
April 14, 2020 @ 11:06 pm
I got it. Not sure how I’d get it to you.
April 15, 2020 @ 8:45 am
Shoot me an email at ells.eastwood@gmail.com. I’ve got some good stuff to trade 🙂
April 14, 2020 @ 7:57 pm
Can you please tell me if the first song he sung is available anywhere?! I would love to have it!
April 14, 2020 @ 11:05 pm
https://genius.com/George-jones-dont-touch-me-lyrics
April 14, 2020 @ 9:40 am
Dang, did anybody attempt to download that video before it came off youtube? I feel like that’s a great and important video in the career of TC and I wouldn’t mind being able to watch it 40 years from now…
April 30, 2020 @ 8:37 pm
Why can we not watch this concert any more??
July 11, 2020 @ 11:48 am
I wondered the same thing! I have been searching for anywhere that may have it but can’t find it. Do you know if I can purchase it anywhere???