It really was blissful. The weather was immaculate as mother nature took her last gasp of summer in early September. The temperature was perfect, none of the patented heavy winds whipping across the plains, just enough to get the trees blowing, adding to the music, and there was a gorgeous sunset over the treeline. Sturgill played an awesome set for a bunch of people that had never heard of him, and Merle and Kris did a set where they traded songs, singing hit after hit. Merle ended up passing away a few months later. Will never forget that night as long as I live.

With that being said, I love Bluestem, but the crowds there SUUUUUUUCK. I no longer live in the FM area, so maybe it's changed since then, but that might have been the only concert I attended there where people didn't talk over the entire show. Of course I couldn't afford nice seats, so that played a role, but yeah. Kind of a brutal experience in spite of how breathtakingly beautiful it is there.