“All Good Music Festival’:http://www.allgoodfestival.com/ returned to Marvin’s Mountaintop in Masontown, WV over the weekend, featuring headliners Furthur, Primus, Pretty Lights, moe., Yonder Mountain String Band and Umphrey’s McGee. Hot Buttered Rum opened the festival with a high energy set on the festival’s Dragon stage. Appearing at the festival for the second year in a row, Furthur played an energetic performance later on in the weekend that featured an extensive segment of “China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider>She Came in Through The Bathroom Window>Terrapin Station”. Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes also joined the group for “Viola Lee Blues” and “Turn On Your Lovelight.”

Headlining act Primus played a set that included “Harold of the Rocks,” “Tommy the Cat” and “American Life,” as well as three new songs that debuted in the past few weeks and will be on their upcoming album _Green Naugahyde_—“Jilly’s on Smack,” “Tragedy’s a-Comin’” and “Eyes of The Squirrel.” All Good veterans Umphrey’s McGee appeared at the festival for the third year in a row and were joined by Jen Hartswick of Trey Anastasio Band on trumpet and Dominic Lalli of Big Gigantic on saxophone for a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop Til’ You Get Enough.” Their set also included a cover of Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” as well as “2×2”, “The Triple Wide”, and “Hurt Bird Bath.”

Big Gigantic’s late night set was the biggest of the young band’s career. It was also particularly special for drummer Jeremy Salken, whose first festival was All Good in 1999.
Other sit ins included mandolin player Eric Robertson joining Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Nigel Hall playing keyboards with Toubab Krewe, Toubab Krewe’s David Pransky
playing bas with Keller Williams and Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad bassist James Searl gusting with Rebelution.

The festival also featured a “Rex Jam” by the Everyone Orchestra featuring Marco Benevento, moe.‘s Al Schnier, Jen Hartswick, Zach Deputy and Anders Beck, an All Good tradition that started five years ago which raised $1,460 last summer to support the music program at Preston High School, which is located in the same county as the festival. Other highlights included the debut of a brand new remix of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by Pretty Lights, as well as an appearance by John Butler’s wife Mama Kin for a particularly soulful version of “Jenny.”