Pipeman Interviews The Band Feel at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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Bourbon & Beyond is the World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Fest

Bourbon & Beyond Kicked Off America’s 8 Biggest Days In Music on September 11-14 In Louisville, Kentucky  

World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival Featured Headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone, Alabama Shakes (Thursday), Phish, Khruangbin, Joe Bonamassa (Friday), Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White, Vance Joy (Saturday), Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls, Megan Moroney (Sunday), Plus Dozens More Rock, Americana, Bluegrass And Alt Rock Artists Along With Elevated Bourbon & Culinary Experiences.  

The seventh Bourbon & Beyond welcomed fans from over 50 states and around the globe and over 120 music artists on five stages to Louisville, Kentucky over the weekend. The World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival was held from September 11-14 at the at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky and featured an incredible music lineup of music legends and rising stars with headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone and Alabama Shakes on Thursday; Phish, Khruangbin and Joe Bonamassa on Friday; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White and Vance Joy on Saturday; and Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls and Megan Moroney on Sunday. The lineup also included Cage The Elephant, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Collective Soul, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iron & Wine, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Switchfoot, Third Eye Blind, Ringo Starr & His All Star Band, Pixies, Lake Street Dive, Dashboard Confessional, Foreigner, Blues Traveler and many others.  

This year, Bourbon & Beyond’s newly expanded footprint doubled the square footage of past layouts, and made greater use of the Kentucky Exposition Center’s infrastructure, creating a more comfortable and resilient experience for fans. In addition, all festival passes included FREE access to amusement rides inside Kentucky Kingdom.

This year’s festival was packed with unforgettable performances, surprise collaborations, and historic moments that will be remembered for years to come.   Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes.”  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you love done too?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that's true.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Why for you you? This is the pipe Man here
on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio,
and I'm here with the band. Feel nice. I'm feeling you.

(00:30):
I'm feeling you. Yes, thank you Here at Bourbon and Beyond.
How badass is this? Dude?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's been so fun. This is one of the most
well put together fests that we've played, probably the most,
I would say, and it's a personal favorite of mine
since I've been here to watch other acts in previous
year's play, so I've always wanted to do this one specifically.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
So how's it feel to be on the other side
of the fence.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's cool, man. I actually in my last bands played
at the Metal Festival next week.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh yeah there. Yeah, I did that.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Show like three years ago, so I kind of had
a little band. It's called The Strangers were no Longer okay,
disbanded RP.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
It would be funny though, if I interviewed you for
that too.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, it wouldn't really go anywhere because the band's not
really doing much.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
But you're better here.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I enjoy this a lot more personally. It's a much
better crowd for us, so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
What do you like better about it? Really?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Specifically for this band, it's a lot more I guess,
accepting of this kind of music, whereas like the other
festival's more like, you know, metal driven kind of thing.
But yeah, it just feels better here personally, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
So it's a cool vibe here at Bourbon beyond right,
cool people and everybody's just chill. And what I love
about this festival is it's such a variety of music.
You could be into blues, you could be into blue grass,
you could be into rock, you could be into country,
doesn't matter. We're just here to all have some good
music therapy.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Totally. Yeah, there's a very diverse lineup here.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Totally in great musicianship. Like you guys, thank you. So
how did this happen? How did this get together? Happen?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
We got connected over social media? Wow, Look, it's the
easiest way to explain it. It is also makes the
most sense to explain. So we just got connected over
social media. We started talking on the river of the phone,
and then we all got connected in person at some point.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's so cool because the beauty of social media. A
lot of people talk about the negativity. There's the beauty
of it for especially for music.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, men, the connectivity is there, it's built in.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
And then your connectivity with your fans, you know, like.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Right, the engagement.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, you go back before social media how hard it
was for fans like us to connect with the bands
they liked, and now it's fairly easy.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, it's not to say that the superficial stuff isn't
still there, But when social media was first coming out
and there was like that integration that like the gap
between the fans and the artists, it kind of decreased.
Both these guys just got on their phones and made
me feel terrible.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
They're posting on social media about this.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah they're doing but in this very beginning times, it's
very superficious stuff, and that that stuff is still around.
But I think people are starting to understand how to
engage with the fan base in a more authentic way.
And if it's not authentic, then it's a more entertaining
and engaging way that doesn't seem just pretentious.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
No doubt, no doubt. How about you. Will you feel
about being here at bourbonam Beyond?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's cool? Honestly, I wasn't super familiar with the specific
festival and Cayden told us all about it before we
were booked for it, and it just seems it's extremely professional.
They care about the artists, they care about the concertgoer.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
T Do just popped in here nice, just in time.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
But it seems like any of the DWP A concerts
or festivals are pretty well put together, and we're honored
and proud to be here.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, I want to focus on one thing you said,
and both of you said, how they treat the artists like.
I cover a lot of festivals and I interview bands,
and I can tell you these festivals are the ones
I get the most compliments about Danny Wimmer and DWP
than any other festival. Of how you guys are treated,

(04:24):
What do you think makes this one different? Besides the professionalism,
how else do you feel as an artist by being
at Danny Wimmer Festival.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's laid back, it's it's just a good feeling. Obviously,
there's a lot of experience put into these festivals, and
it's just like there's nothing else they could have thought
of to make it better in our experience so far.
But I don't know what best things are. When you
show up and you don't have to do anything.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, even we have a stress free.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
We have a tour manager, but you still have to
do things sometimes. But like today, just kind of show
up and we play and it's almost like man.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
And the loading is so stress free, right.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh yeah, we don't. I don't have to worry about that,
which is cool. And everyone's just nice. I like how
the artist areas are all together and stuff. You can
chat with them and are We have a friend named
Nate who's a TM and he kept telling us about
this band Heavy and Katie. Yeah, I'll be playing right now.
But we got to meet them finally and have that

(05:24):
mutual friend and it's like if we weren't in those
kind of laid back close quarters a lot of times
at festivals, it's kind of like you kind of look
at the other bands. I kind of look at you,
and it's like.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's like hi, as you're walking by, or look away
as you're walking by.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'll say, like, it definitely feels like we're in the Midwest.
Three of us grew up in the Midwest, and it
just kind of just feels like we're almost at a
really huge backyard party.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
It is, and I think all the DWP things and
there's surprises that different ones, Like this year at Rockville,
Danny did a thing back in the media artist lounge
of clam bake after Sunday night, after the whole thing
was over, and that was awesome. Yeah, I would hope
so like you don't get to eat and then it's like, wow,

(06:09):
that would be cool. So we have to tell them
to do that time. And how about like that drip
bar and the open bar up there, Like I do
a lot of festivals out the way that does that stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, there's not many that we've been a part of. Yeah,
that's it.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
And then that's the thing, the ease of it, because
nothing's worse than if soundcheck or load in is super
screwed up and stressful and then you got to perform.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'll say also that these kind of festivals are what
you call like a good look for a band, and
that's more the like strategic and side of things. But
when you play at a festival that has such a
such a stature, it further pushes you looking and being
accepted as a professional band. It's like if you're being
accepted by the DWPS festivals of the world and they're

(06:59):
in the kind of I go there, you must be legit,
So it's good for us on a level of expanding
as well.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You know what else too. It's like what I've had
other artists tell me is that no matter which band
you are, you're treated exactly the same by Danny Wimmer.
And that's cool because it would suck to be like, oh,
look at that band, look at what they're getting, and
look at us, like you're all on the same level.
And I think that's cool. Yeah, let's have you add

(07:26):
to the equation here, so you feel being here at
Burban beyond.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Oh, it's amazing. Yeah, it's been super great. And the
reception from our set was awesome, and like you're saying,
all the amenities and how easy it was with sound
check and everything was fantastic. It's definitely, I feel like
the most accommodating that we've ever had, which is really cool.
So yeah, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's cool because sometimes it's shocking, right because sometimes you're
like you go some of these vessels and it's like
a horror show.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, thankfully, I mean Tyler and I and previous bands
had some of those, for sure, but thankfully, even other
festivals we've done recently, they're professional, and you know, everything's together.
But this, like you're saying, with this artist lounge and
the drinks and drink barthday, it's like that's just another level,
you know that we haven't experienced yet.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, even the fact that you can have the media
artist lounge together. Because there's some festivals I go to
and I'm like, I feel bad for the artist because
you've got a bunch of media people that shouldn't be there.
They're like fanboying out, fangrowing out, and it's like, this
is your safe zone. Like I tell anybody works for me,
don't ask for aiographs, don't ask for selfies. This is
their safe zone. They deal with that enough out there.

(08:41):
You know, this is where you should be able to
chill out and relax. And that's what we have here.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
You know, So what do you guys got going on
next after this?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well, we started a full fall headlining tour tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, it's about forty dates across the country, mostly Midwest
and East Coast and recording in the new year and
some full length stuff coming out and vinyl and releases
and shirts and yeah, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
You know, well, speak about all that stuff let's tell
everybody how they can connect you on socials, but more importantly,
buy your merch and check out your music because they
can't listen to my show unless they buy your merch. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
So under all the socials, it's the band feel and
you can look up the bandfield dot com and that's
where all the merches and keep in touch with us.
And yeah, we love hearing from you and it keeps
us going nice. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
So if each one of you were gonna give me
one tidbit about why you do this, what would it be.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
You ever have something that you just like, do you know,
it's just like something that you've.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Always think, I'm doing it right now?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, it's there's not Sometimes there's not a I can't
say a lot of need. It might be a cop out,
but not a lot of need for explanations. Sometimes it's
just like I feel this is why God put me
on Earth's that sort of thing, and I don't know,
it's fun, it's fulfilling. That and baseball are the only
thing that I've ever done in my life too, so

(10:14):
that might be it, but I don't know. TJ.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, I mean pretty much that I figured out that
I loved music and sounds and most importantly drums when
I was in my early teens. So now getting to
actually live it out is a drink come true.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
It's amazing. I love it for me, I love traveling
the world, so this is kind of the best way
to do it in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I mean it is.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, I mean you're just gonna connect with so many people. Yeah,
specifically Ohio. We have no problems getting shows there. It's
really cool getting to like meet new friends just from
all around the country that you can then go and
like visit on downtime and whatnot and just see the
country and see the world.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
So yeah, yeah, that's what's cool. It's like I cover
festivals all over the US, UK and Europe. Sometimes I'll
bring my youngest daughter Eoral festival. Halfway through day one,
like probably earlier than today. She being like that, I
don't know how you do this. Every weekend, man, I'm
done already, and I'm like, I don't know how. I don't. Like, yeah,
I go home and I have the same thing that

(11:17):
artists have. I have that like down depression. Bitch. Oh man,
it's like coming off a cocaine or something.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Wouldn't know about that, but yes, and it's.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Like all my friends, like you said, all my friends
are out there everywhere, and like I'll get to be
here for louder. So I was just bullshit and with
the bartender up there and she's like, I'm gonna be
here the whole time. So I think I want to
go check out Nashville. I'm like, I'm with you. Let's go,
let's go, let's turn back by Wednesday. I'm good.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
It's community man, right, Yeah, how about you?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Question is why do music?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Well, basically, why are you here? What is it that
brought you to this point? Why do you why are
Is this your passion?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, oh it is. It's definitely my passion. I wouldn't
just be doing it for a paycheck if I wanted that,
I'd just be doing a nine to five.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
And I hate it's stupid, right, Like I don't get
bands or in this business for money because that's the
wrong reason. Yeah, like that, everything else is shit except
all the good stuff of being an artist. The business
is shit. Yeah. The artist part is great.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, the business side drains you, for sure. I Mean
the reason I'm here is the same every time. Is
my brother, Greg, I wouldn't be doing this, got him.
I'd be I'd be a math major, probably teaching at
high school or something like that. So if weren't from So, yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's cool. Yeah, I love it. Any last words you
want to give our listeners, we love you.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Thank You's good.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
You gotta ditto that comment right that.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
The teaching history, my favorite Sabbath record is Master of Reality.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Okay, since you brought that up, I got one. Whereas So,
I was in eleventh grade had a history class and
the history teacher, I guess was let go or something.
So they had a music teacher teaching history, which was
cool as shit because he said, I don't care what

(13:18):
you do to the rest of the class. You have
one project at the end of the semester. I want
an oral presentation. You can pick any subject you want.
So I picked Ozzy Osbourne satanism in his music and
got an a in the in history for doing it.
On Ozzy there you right there it is and like

(13:41):
he's talking because I got my black Savage shirt on
here that's also tied I So it's like I put
thought into it. I'm like this combines both my hippie
personality and my metal personality and one shirt. So it's
perfect for the first day of Bourbon and Beyond. There
you go, right, there you go. So I mean it's
a good I think it's a hippie thing exactly. So

(14:05):
you guys rock. I'm glad you are here at Bourbon Beyond.
And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Cheers, thank you.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man
on w for CUI Radio.