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THE LIVING END

So Chris, what are you looking forward to most at Bluesfest 2021?

I’m just looking forward to playing it! We’d never done it before, and I’ve never been. It’s a festival I’ve always wanted to go to, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. We’ve always been playing, or out of the country for whatever reason. And we’ve never been invited before. So I’m like, “Okay, it’s only taken 25 years or so, but finally, we have an invite!” I’m really looking forward to it. I know it’s not quintessentially a blues festival, but I think a lot of the bands on there definitely stem from roots music. And I feel like we’re a perfect fit for that, because we also came from a

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