Friday, July 25th • 8:00pm • Side Stage
The Best Westerns have been performing a brand of shambly, honest, original, and danceable country music they call ‘dirtwave’ since forming in Missoula in 2009. Their style is loose, confessional, and surprising, an alloy of country, jazz, prog, and rock, where tidy western licks lap against ecstatic trombone smears and brief punk freakouts before giving way to earnest ballads and tender lines.
The Big Sky Journal called The Best Westerns “one of the most respected alternative country ensembles of the last 20 years.