Sept. 15, 2025

Pipeman Interviews Gin Blossoms 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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Hy you have done too.

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Yes, that's true. W why for you young.

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Beause the pipe Man here on the Adventures Pipe Man

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W four C Y Radio and I'm here with.

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Robin Wilson of Gin Blossoms.

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And Jesse the Gym Blossoms Nice here at Bourbon and beyond.

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That's so cool.

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It is cool.

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Have you played this before?

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I only then remember I don't think so. But I

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do drink bourbon, so that counts. I do a lot

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of shows and there's bourbon involved most of the time,

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so it feels natural.

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So what's your favorite bourbon?

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I like the Jeffersons that comes in the Pitcher wine casks.

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And what do you like about it?

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The way it makes me feel inside in my heart?

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There you go, I love it. What about you? What's

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your favorite bourbon?

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Well?

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I prefer a Rye whiskey. But if I'm drinking bourbon,

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I like the Colonel Taylor Nice. And which rye whiskey

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do you like? Because they have a lot of that

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here too, Canadian whiskey nice? And so it doesn't have

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to be expensive. Well, there you go. It just has

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to make you feel good, right Batman? Yes?

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Okay, So pipe Man and Batman are very similar that

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let pipe Man make that's my radio name.

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I actually now that you mention it, Yeah, I'm getting

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that vibe.

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I like the Dark Knight version. Which do you like better?

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Dark Knight or Batman?

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They've animated series.

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Yeah, yeah, it is the superior presentation of Batman.

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I love it. I love it absolutely.

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And so you guys are this is your last day

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of the tour with spin doctors and bluestrivelers.

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It is How cool is it to end on a festival?

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It's not actually today a chaotic screw screwfest. We would

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have been great if the thing ended yesterday. But honestly,

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at the same time, if our manager and apparently he

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must have come to us at some point and said, hey,

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at the very end of the tour, you're gonna go

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do this festival, we would have wanted to be on

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the bill today. But somehow we always managed to make

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the beginning and the end of every tour a clusterfuck,

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So that.

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Goes without saying. And then today was probably a clusterfuck

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because of this.

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Look at this picture.

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This is the lightning at two am.

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That I saw that that morning. That's the ferris wheel

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that's Oh, is that right? It's beautiful? It was. It

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was nice rainy morning, right.

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Yeah, Well, I'm glad it happened last night. So we

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can have a great day with your guys music and everybody.

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Else gotta be great. Pipe man, there you go. Are

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we gonna do a collab today on live on stage

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or what you need? Well? Not me. Oh, I thought

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may join us if you ought me to.

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But I played drums and I sucked. I played guitar,

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I sucked. I sang fresh metal and I sucked. So

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now I do this. So I don't know if you

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walk up, but I'll come up and announce you because

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I'm very good at that.

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We don't generally have announcers. Well see that you welcome

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to come dance. I don't have that. I would love that.

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I would love So.

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What is it that sparked that that interest that this

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is what you want to do? Going way back to

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the very beginning of time for you guys.

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Oh, I remember it very very well. I was at

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a sleepover. It was during the third grade. I was

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at a sleepover at the neighbor's house and we stayed

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up on a Friday night to watch the Midnight Special,

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And that was the night that Queen debuted the video.

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For Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Wow.

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And so I remember that moment very very clearly in

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my head and realizing at the age of eight that

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I want to be a rock singer.

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And I have been on this path ever since, and.

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I love it.

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Here you are twenty twenty five, and man, you're gonna

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kill it here at Bourbon Beyond one story good or bad,

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in this whole musical journey that you're gonna tell when

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you're like eighty years old.

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What would be?

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When we did Saturday Night Live, the host was Phil Hartman,

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And when I met Phil Hartman, he walked right up

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to me, shook my hand. He said, Hi, Robin, I'm

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Troy McClure and you may remember me from such educational

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films as Locker Room Towel Fight, the Blinding of Larry Driscoll.

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And that might be the single greatest moment of my career.

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Oh my god, that is pretty fucking fun. Favorite tattoo on.

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You, not in general, well, probably the crowned Phoenix here

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nice would be the all time favorite. I had this

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done on the television show La Inc. By an artist

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named Dan Smith. Who's kind of a big deal.

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That's pretty funny.

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Yeah, And then I've got one here. It's hard to

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see under the watch, but it says this fucking hurts.

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That's what I'm like.

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Hey, that's the best one, right, pretty good? Like that

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is brilliant. What's the phoenix being to you anything?

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Yeah, we grew up in Arizona and that imagery was

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our environment and our culture and our community. And at

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Terminal two at Sky Harbor Airport, there's this huge mural

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of a phoenix, and that's like this iconic image that

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if you grow up in town, you see that all

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the time. And so I just felt like that is

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the symbol of Arizona.

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In a way. It might be a guy with a.

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Gun standing in a cotton field, but in my mind,

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it's a phoenix.

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So I like the phoenix much better.

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It's pretty good.

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And so are there any surprises you think we should

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expect from tonight? Anything you're going to pull out for

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this last show at a tour, at a festival.

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No, we are an autopilot today. We get to chop

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a bunch of stuff out of the set and make

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it as simple as possible. So it's just hit after hit,

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and we are so well seasoned at this point, at

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the very end of the tour, we know what we're doing,

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our crew is on it, and so we really don't

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have to work that hard. We just have to get

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up there and make sure everybody's in a decent mood

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and we can get through the show with very little effort.

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You guys are playing, they're all going to be in

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more than decent mood because it's going to be badass,

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I hope. So is there anything, ay, Ben you're looking

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forward to if you can to see today?

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I would love to see Stergil Simpson absolutely.

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Well, you have to see that yesterday.

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I guess I'm screwed.

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But they did play did play one of your songs? No?

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I did. I wouldn't think so it doesn't sound right.

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But Noah is on the bill and we're going to

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try to make it over there. He's a fantastic artist,

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a great songwriter, and one of our previous guitar texts

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is working for him now. So hoping to get over

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there and say hello to him.

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Nice.

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Anything else you want to tell the listeners that we

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haven't covered that they should know.

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No, No, we're good.

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Just good. Just that you're gonna just keep kicking our ass.

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We're just gonna keep going.

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No.

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Thank you guys for being here at Bourbon Beyond and

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being on the Adventures.

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Thank you for having me Rodman. Thank you.

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Hello, this is Robin Wilson of Jim Blossoms and you

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are switching to Glide with Pipeman Radio on W four

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c Y dot com.

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