The story of the night

A Little Chicken's Floyd Jenkins has spent twenty years turning stage fright into trance—banjo locked in a hypnotic groove that splits the difference between Appalachian finger-picking and West African polyrhythm, the room going still and swaying at once. GirlBoss & the BoyToz hit like a dentist's waiting room finally snapped: four-part harmonies over power chords, Bethany Johnson's voice cutting through the hum with the kind of certainty that makes you want to schedule a cleaning. One band dissolves you into a groove; the other snaps you to attention.

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