Watch Kitchen Dweller’s Paste Session at Suwannee Spring Reunion

By Brad Wagner  |  May 9, 2025 | 5:29pm
Music Features Kitchen Dwellers
Watch Kitchen Dweller’s Paste Session at Suwannee Spring Reunion

Paste Studio “On The Road” rambled on to the Suwannee River for the 7th Annual Suwannee Spring Reunion at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, halfway between Jacksonville and Tallahassee. The Spanish moss-draped oak and cypress trees provided a rich environment to capture a series of sessions on the festival grounds in the “Alan Lomax field recording” style. 2024 was a tough year for the Suwannee community after losing festival co-founder Randy “Big Cosmo” Judy, who passed away in spring 2024, and having to cancel the 2024 Suwannee Roots Revival due to Hurricane Helene. But festival director Beth Judy brought the festival roaring back into fighting shape in 2025, hosting a massive 4-day party across half a dozen stages, late night campground pickin’ parties (looking at you, Slopryland!), kicking off the weekend with Big Cosmo’s Celebration of Life. Please enjoy this Paste x Suwannee session below, and a dozen other unique sessions to come!

Full Session

Torrin Daniels, banjoist from the Bozeman, Montana-based psychedelic bluegrass band Kitchen Dwellers, shared two songs with us on a gorgeous afternoon down by the Suwannee River. The beautiful white sand was easily the finest I’ve walked on, feeling like flour underfoot. The first song in this medley, “Their Names Are The Trees,” comes from KD’s 2022 album Wise River, and transitions into John Anderson’s “Seminole Wind.”

“Their Names Are The Trees”

The whole band planned to join us for this session, but they travelled separately from Daniels and got somewhat hijacked on their way to the festival. We saw the full band on stage for their epic festival set later that night—complete with the medley of “Their Names Are The Trees” into “Seminole Wind”—so we know it worked out one way or another. But we never caught up with the guys afterwards to hear the details about how their half-assed abduction by an unscrupulous shuttle driver was resolved. Ahh well. Sometimes you get a little kidnapped. Onwards!

“Seminole Wind” (John Anderson cover)

Endless gratitude to festival director Beth Judy and her whole team at Suwannee Spring Reunion. Beth’s love and dedication to the music shine through every level of this festival. Special thanks to Erin Scholze for connecting the dots and the campfire hangs! Stay tuned for more Suwannee x Paste sessions on the way!

 
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