Forrest McCurren

Can’t wait to get back to the Flying W for Campout 2023. This will be our 4th year and biggest yet. This has become a yearly reunion of sorts. If you have been in the past you know, but if you haven’t, this is the only festival where you can ride your ATV or horse right into the show. From late night jams to floating the Current River, your options are endless. We have powered RV slips with a general store on site, and clean bathrooms/showers. Campers can move in as early as Thursday. The stage will get fired up Friday night. We can’t wait to be back at this special place. Hope you can make it out.

7:00pm Doors | 8:00pm Show

Forsythia, the latest studio LP offering from Caleb Caudle out now via Soundly Music, is a portrait of his truest self, of the artist at his most solitary and reflective. Thematically, it meets anticipation for the unknown future with nostalgia for the past, and reconciles both with meditation in the present. The album was recorded at the legendary Cash Cabin during the pandemic, and inspired by the solitude and symbols Caudle found in nature during that time. It’s produced by John Carter Cash, and features veteran session players Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Dennis Crouch and Fred Eltringham, and the vocal talents of Carlene Carter, Elizabeth Cook and Sarah Peasall McGuffey. Simplistic arrangements– in which Caudle was the only guitarist– built a framework for space that is filled intentionally so that the songs themselves can be heard and appreciated without an overcrowding of instrumentation. On this record, outsider influences come into play nearly as much as his foundational knowledge of traditional Appalachian folk and other music history. This collection of 10 songs serves as a manifesto of Caudle’s beliefs and simplest desires. Forsythia sees Caudle as a master of his craft as a songwriter and musician.