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When I meet Seth Cripe for the first time, my immediate sense is that he possesses an old soul. Comfortable navigating interior and multiple contradictions, these rare birds are interesting to be around.
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Old souls have a way about them: they’re at ease, they’re empathetic, they’re suspicious, they pay attention. I can smell a wine and be reminded of a day 20 years ago I spent with my grandfather, or meals that I had when I was very young that were powerful moments.”įrom Anna Maria Island to Calistoga: The Odyssey of Seth Cripe When you listen to it, it can make you cry. It touches you in your heart, in your eyes. “Music is not something that touches you only in your ears. And I’ve been as warmly embraced by them as I wanted to embrace them back…that made me want to work twice as hard.” Landvoigt, whose children are in the same age range as some of the band’s children, joined Little Big Town in the vineyard shortly after they started to work together to hang placards, assigning each child’s name, to a vineyard row. It’s rare to connect on a personal, music and wine level with people. That doesn’t happen often in work situations. I could stay up all night and talk with them. “When you meet these people, you want every conversation with them to continue. He’s refreshingly emotional about his job making wines for 4 Cellars and now Day Drinking. The band’s winemaker, Hal Landvoigt, an affable, enthusiastic fellow, has an easy camaraderie with Little Big Town. We’ve been able to enjoy the pleasures of life.” Even today we’re able to laugh and enjoy our moments together because we can appreciate what we have. I don’t think we’ve ever lost that appreciation for being able to keep going. Hoping we could afford to pay for gas to play another show. We can still feel that.” Sweet adds, “Year two, we were just hoping we could make it to the next year. We can easily remember the days when we could hardly afford the drive-thru at McDonald’s.
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It was the hardship that made us strong and gave us longevity. And the fact that it’s still the original four of us who sat together in the living room and played when nobody had heard a note of our music together or even cared…And you said ‘arc,’ and that’s a great word for the journey we’ve been on because our arc has been a little wavy. When I ask them what surprises them most about the narrative arc of their story together as Little Big Town, Schlapman says, “It doesn’t surprise me that we’re still together, but when I look back as that young girl 21 years ago, I don’t think any of us were thinking…what are we going to be doing in 21 years? We were maybe thinking five years down the road, but 21 years later, it’s been remarkable. This year, the band celebrates their 21st anniversary together. Other past artists include David Gray, Alanis Morrissette, Tegan & Sara, Ocean Park Standoff, Lenny Kravitz, the Jonas Brothers, Guster, Fun., Collective Soul, Rita Wilson, Adam Lambert, Atlas Genius, Jason Mraz, Macy Gray, Hanson, Melissa Ethridge, Neon Trees, Fergie, Parachute, Brad Paisley, Mike Posner, Vintage Trouble, Julia Michaels and ZZ Ward, among many others. Save for the Uptown, many of the venues are so intimate that you might find yourself listening to HAIM or The Revivalists in a roomful of 60 people or so, sometimes less. The result is a visceral experience that marries music, food and wine like no other event with which I’m familiar. Everyday music fans who want to attend must enter sweepstakes held by radio stations across the country, like iHeart radio and their affiliates tickets aren’t available for sale. Attendees are predominately record industry executives and radio programmers, there to listen to new releases by established artists or to sample new music by up-and-comers. LITVGC is part of the Live in the Vineyard franchise, a music festival bar-none held twice annually across some of the Napa Valley’s most coveted venues-barrel-lined cellars at storied wineries, private rooms at feted restaurants and historic concert halls like the Uptown Theatre. Here for “Live in the Vineyard Goes Country,” Little Big Town will be performing that evening at Napa’s Uptown Theatre.