The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit is back as your hosts and celebrating yet another year of keeping the good times rolling. All the core members, Taylor Webster, Willy Tea Taylor, Chandler Pratt, Chris Doud, Matt Cordano and Aaron Burtch will be on hand. This year we will be opening the festival Friday morning with a welcome-to-the-campout acoustic set up at the Cow Track Stage, and then we will be at the Tioga Stage for the main event Saturday night to play all the electrified jams and some other surprises.

Bringing their own style of down-home, rootsy twang to the blues, the Deslondes are a band of rough but tuneful troubadours who found their voice in New Orleans, Louisiana. The band's music is laid-back but committed, with a groove that pulls together their influences in country, blues, rock & roll, and swamp pop, along with a lyrical warmth and honesty.

We’ve known these folks since the earliest days, and have had the hands-down best of times each chance we’ve been able to share the same stage. For the past nineteen years, The Hooten Hallers have been tearing up the road, blending blues, garage rock, country, punk, and jazz into a sound that's truly their own. The band's high-octane live shows must be experienced to be believed, with their raucous jams, tight vocal harmonies, and danceable grooves that make for a wild night and an unforgettable music experience.

Rooted in the mountains of Western North Carolina, The Resonant Rogues are fronted by songwriting duo Sparrow and Keith Josiah Smith, who share a passion for movement and sound. Before meeting, falling in love, and forming the band in 2013, both traveled extensively throughout the U.S.- Keith by hopping freight trains, Sparrow with a circus troupe. In addition to their holler homestead, New Orleans and Nashville are their other musical homes, and the influences of both can be felt on The Resonant Rogues self-titled fourth album. The sounds of Appalachian old-time, classic country, and vintage soul all make appearances in this stunner of an album.

After playing Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits with his high school band and dropping a solo LP, Ian Ferguson is ready to reintroduce himself. Having played guitar since he was 12, the Tennessee native fronted the now-defunct band The Kingston Springs until 2015 and released his debut solo album, State of Gold, in 2019. Now, he’s gearing up to drop his first record as just FERGUSON — a move that comes with a symbolically experimental sound

Another one of our oldest friends in music, Virgil Shaw is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, renowned for his contributions to country rock and Americana music through introspective lyrics exploring themes of loss, alienation, and personal reflection.

Superimposing Everly Brothers-style harmonies atop lilting guitar and doo-wop-inspired instrumentation, Camille Wind Weatherford and Casey Jane Reece-Kaigler transmit messages of disillusionment, enduring romanticism, and tenacious hope.Named after a river in the duo’s native Oregon and cultivated in the New Orleans DIY scene where the pair met, The Lostines’ chemistry is both forward-looking and a throwback, born of seemingly disparate aesthetics — classic country, Louisiana dance hall, mid-century girl groups.

Since joining forces in 2013, the Lostines have been transporting fans with bare and ethereal lullabies, smart harmonies, and wry call-and-response, all the while tempering that sincerity with an ample dose of tongue-in-cheek goofiness.

“The back to basics approach often yields some of the most raw and realized work from a multidiscipline artist. Having worked with Cherry Glazerr, La Sera, LA Witch, Dios (Malos) and more over the years; Jerome shines a light on stripped down songs from the soul. Joel Jerome leads the audience to lush pastorals of the spirit that lay between the rolling metropolitan valleys and hills and the seemingly infinite spaces of the galaxies.”

While we were committed to bringing in all new acts for our second year, we did make one exception, because of popular demand, and because they need to be on the main stage this time.

Talking Ghosts craft the kind of curious, cinematic music that feels beamed in from a forgotten corner of the underworld. The five-piece conjures ghost-folk, surf goth, and garage psych into something shadowy and surprisingly danceable — weaving songs from the echoes of what haunts them.  

”Absolutely BLOWN AWAY by Talking Ghosts. This is something SERIOUSLY special. Everytime I see this band play it’s a better experience than the last. This is exceptional.” -Andrew Quist, Glide Magazine.

Grover Anderson hails from Calaveras County and—like its former resident, Mark Twain—revels in the tragic, the mundane, and the absurd. Anderson has made a name in the Sierra Nevada foothills writing tall tales masquerading as songs—sometimes funny, sometimes deadly serious, always honest. 

Formed in 2008, HashKnife Outfit is acoustic roots music stripped down to its chassis and driven fast. Spanning a raw range of Americana and rowdy folk styles, this outfit brings an aggressive, high-energy edge to the stage that is anything but polite. Expect sharp storytelling, driving rhythms, and a foot-stomping live set packed with pure attitude.

Moonsville Collective has become the string band the members always wanted it to be. The Southern California–bred folk band feels a renewed connection to its roots in old-time music circles, bolstered by the sharpened musical and songwriting skills that come with more experience.

“Moonsville Collective musicians reek of heavy-duty tradition. Set aside the excellent musicianship – what’s striking is the essence & expressive performances that are emitted through their respective fingers. They succeed in creating music that’s sensitive, flexible & spirited.” - John Apice/Americana Highways

Blending the spirit of the California desert and West Virginia countryside, Xander Hitzig and Nicole Olney’s musical journey began in Los Angeles, as castmates in a jukebox country musical. 

Currently calling Maui, Hawaii, home, Desert Hollow creates genre-bending roots music that skips pleasantries and goes straight for the heart. As Xander often describes it: "it’s folk music-music for the folks."

Friends of the band and our ambassadors of the blues this festival, Big Earl and the Cryin’ Shame is a West Coast blues band from right down the road in Modesto, California. Featuring the heavy-duty vocal stylings of “Big” Early Matthews and guitar standouts Eli Lester and Jason Finley, The Cryin’ Shame have built their music on a sturdy foundation of 50’s Chicago style blues infused with infectious funk rhythms that have been filling dance floors since 2007. The Shame have had the pleasure of opening from such well known acts as Charlie Musselwhite, Chris Cain, Greg “Fingers” Taylor, and BB King.

Welp, we just can’t not keep bringing this guy around. This time, he’s got a brand new project, with a new sound, and a new album to share with you all. If you caught this group tearing down the house at the Knights Ferry Art and Music Festival in June, you already know this is an act you won’t want to miss! Please welcome back Mike Clark fronting his new collaboration, Stoneteeth!

“Mike Clark, a singer songwriter from Colorado best known for his bands Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds, and The River Arkansas, and was ready for a new challenge and direction when he started penning the words and concepts for what would become Stoneteeth. Stoneteeth is a voice from the bottom, the gutter, the last penny in your pocket, the drunk sleeping at the end of the bar full of wisdom and cheap whiskey that you write off until they wake up and piss on your party.”

Acclaimed songwriter, the Dauphin of Mississipi has earned accolades wherever he has set up, from the airwaves of Wyoming, to the youtube chanel Western AF. Known as much for his travels as his songwriting, we are excited to have tracked him down for a set a the Campout.

“Mississippi to Wyoming, now New Zealand to Merced, The Dauphin of Mississippi tends to get lost for considerable swaths of time in large and adventuresome rural landscapes, collecting and dispensing songs as such times and occasions call for…then disappearing, and rather abruptly at that.”

"J.B. Barton's voice is a treasured chest of sound."-Joe Craven

J.B. Barton hails from the foothills of the Peninsular Ranges in Poway CA. J.B.’s sings with the warmth of the chaparrals and the sparkle of the mica in the granite peaks that towered over his childhood. J.B. has shared the stage with many notable artists including David Grisman, Sam Bush, Brothers Comatose, Devil Makes Three and Fantastic Negrito. The songs that J.B. writes tell the tales of an outlaw searching for sanctuary in a world that continually tries to saddle break him.

We’ve been playing shows with ol’ Drew since the very start, from dives in SF or crawdad feeds in Lousiana. Shout out to cracklins!

Drew Landry's musical career started in 2003 when Hank Williams III encouraged Landry to open for him. Since then he has shared stages with high-caliber artists like Billy Joe Shaver, David Allen Coe, Charlie Louvin, and Dwight Yoakam. Raised in Lousiana and currently living on the northern edge of Montana, Drew has established himself as one of the most impressive talents on the singer-songwriter/Americana scene.

Gotta have some traditional bluegrass, and these folks bring it. With a residency right down the road in Knights Ferry every month, these phenominal players know their way around standards and originals, fiddle tunes and 4 part harmonies. Led by the talented Yoseff Tucker of Yoseff Tucker and the Bow Ties, and featuring Owen Ragland and Kat Baker of Honey Run, these folks are keeping the bluegrass tradition alive and well. Don’t miss this act!

This is going to be fun. Way back when we were playing down the street at the Cow Track Lounge for drinks and tips, we occasionally would share the bill with this gang of young chaps. Their guitarist, with the shreds to melt the ladies’ and gents’ hearts, was none other than our own Chandler Pratt. Though it would be a few more years before he graced Good Luck with his presence, there was some foreshadowing going on there for sure. These guys are a part our whole origin story. Fat Skeleton are going to reunite for a Campout-exclusive reunion set this year, and it’s going to be a highlight of the Campout!

On top of setting up and facilitating the Fretting Zoo jam tent again this year, and showcasing his new Music Library project, Nathan, also known as the hardest working musician this side of the Rockies, will be taking the stage this time around.

“Nathan Ignacio is a California songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and community builder whose music lives at the crossroads of folk, bluegrass, Americana, and roots revival. Performing as a one-man band and in collaborative projects, Ignacio has built a reputation for raw, heartfelt performances that feel equal parts front-porch gathering and backroad sermon.”

The T-ranch Stringband from Mariposa County, California,  is an old-timey Cali-grass band featuring Andy Roberts of the Trespassers on banjo and vocals,  Benny Lee Friedrich (Trespassers) on upright bass, Jared Jesperson on guitar, and Fritz Bagget on fiddle. Their sound has been described as somewhere between Leadbelly and Willie Nelson, Appalachia and the Sierra, the dust bowl and the apocalypse...

Come hear from a panel of singer/songwriters as they showcase the craft of writing songs and offer advice to any audience members who want to ask about the process of songwriting. Featuring Amanda Russell, Jeremy Marcante, Neil Jackson, and Tiffany Rose Delacruz

Friday and Saturday morning, come on up to the cafeteria and play a song or two at our open mic. Folks will be enjoying a hot pancake breakfast and get to hear some fine tunes while they’re at it. Sign-up information will be available at the Campout.

Many moons ago, Good Luck Thrift members Willy Tea, Chris Doud, and Chandler Pratt put together a collection of childrens songs. That morphed into a children-centered live production that combined music with education and exploration and is an annual feature at the Strawberry Music Festival and Stanislaus County education programs. As members moved away, the production kept going with our talented friends in the foothills filling in. The current lineup goes by The Sarsaparilla Strummers and includes Tim McCaffrey of The Neighborhood Sound, Owen Ragland of Honey Run, Alec LaRoche of The Brothers Strong, and Chris Doud (still). Last year at the campout we got the old band back together with Willy Tea and Chandler, so pretty good chance it’ll be an all-star showcase again. SATURDAY MORNING on The Cow Track stage!