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Now in its third year, the Deadwood Red Dirt Festival has fast become one of the biggest music festivals in the upper mid-west. After last year’s colossal success, event organizers are eager to bring back two incredible days of music featuring the Casey Donahew, the Josh Abbott Band, Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band, Troy Cartwright and Brock Finn January 12th & 13th in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center. The event debuted in 2015 with nearly 5,000 fans attending two days of the best in music from the Red Dirt genre. Red Dirt is the color of soil found in Oklahoma and Texas. They are the homes of a music genre that spawned Outlaw Country legends like Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and created a home grown movement of Americana, folk and alt-country sounds. Some define Red Dirt music as “country music with attitude”. Others say it’s a state of mind as much as it is a sound – a sound that successfully closes the gap between rock and country. Regardless of definition, Red Dirt fans are loyal and came in droves last year to the show at Deadwood Mountain Grand.

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The highly abbreviated Tritt timeline started when the young Marietta, Georgia native incorporated his lifelong influences of Southern Rock, blues and gospel into his country during a honky-tonk apprenticeship that led him to Warner Bros in 1989. Between then and 1999, Travis released seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label. His 1990 debut Country Club and its succession of hits put him in the vanguard of the genre’s early ’90s boom, dubbing him as one of “The Class of ‘89,” which included Country music superstars Garth Brooks, Clint Black and Alan Jackson; all whom dominated the charts in the early ‘90s.