Wailing

Almost all of those shows are at the end of August, same as the Organic Planet Festival (with bluegrass legend Del McCoury and reggae star Tanya Stephens), the reggae-centric Humboldt Music and Arts Summit in Willow Creek and the Dimmick Ranch’s country fest, Live on the County Line, all of them competing for your music dollar. The Dimmick show on Saturday, Aug. 29, features Dwight Yoakam, Kelly Willis, Wanda Jackson, John Doe and The Sadies and I See Hawks in LA, an impressive array of SoCal alt. country talent.

It all adds up to too much music, but there are worse things.

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