John Popper of Blues Traveler in Strange Online Feud

By Gina Carey

August 1, 2017

A bizarre social media feud has all but taken over ‘90s band Blues Traveler’s Twitter feed, where lead singer John Popper recently posted the address alongside an aerial image of an online foe’s home. 

According to SPIN, Popper has had a longstanding beef with Kentucky social services worker Forrest Rutherford, who initially ticked the singer off in 2014 when he sided with a BuzzFeed writer who got into a separate online scuffle with the singer. 

After having his Twitter account suspended and reinstated, Rutherford became reacquainted with Popper when an online bot recently paired some of his old tweets with Popper’s name, reports the Daily Beast. Rather than shrugging the tweets off, the singer began engaging with Rutherford’s account from the band’s official social media pages.

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