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On Sunday we decided to go to Cooperstown to see Old Crow Medicine Show perform Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde as a 50th anniversary tribute to the bard.  The concert was 2 hours away and at Brewery Ommegang, so we decided we'd camp out.

Emmett helps Mama pick the right shoes... Foreshadowing: the right shoes were galoshes. 

Little Man was super helpful setting up the tent.  He held it down so it didn't blow away while I staked it in.  Later he held it down so that it didn't raise too fast.

Everything looks up to code, Papa!

The once and future king.

Bow to Sir Emmett of the House Bassington, first of his name, King of the Brooktonites and Wobbly Walker

Is that an air guitar I see?

Time for a little stompin and hollerin!

Driftwood!  We first saw them by chance playing in a little bar in Trumansburg many years ago.  Now they open for Old Crow at Ommegang?!  Amazing.  They deserve it, too.  Fantastic instrumentalists with great energy.

Dancing to the music.

Wrestling with Mama.

What a handsome guy.

"Guys, quit with all the pictures.  You're missing the show!"

Old Crow.  Ketch, center stage on the mic!

Is someone getting tired?

Missing the encore.

Old Crow played both albums and then came back out and played some greatest hits; Tangled Up in Blue, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, and then Midnight Rider by the Allman Brothers, and of course Wagon Wheel.

The night was a little rough, with lots of yelling and singing and drunkin conversation, then lots of rain and leaking tent.  Not much sleeping happened.  Oddly, the area that we were planning to camp in, up and away from the main field, was closed off.  It's too bad.  There were lots of families.  It's a lot to ask, but it seems possible that there could be an area set aside for drunken revlery and another for families...  Anyway, we survived.  Emmett actually slept pretty well, all things considered.  I wound up sleeping in a puddle and acting as a dam to prevent Emmett and Sarah getting wet.  Sarah was on the side most subject to stupid conversation.  

My camping buddies sleeping it off on the drive home.  All in all, we had  agreat and memorable time.  Emmett won't remember this, obviously, but we think it's pretty cool that his first concert is Old Crow.  As far as camping goes, at least we know that it's doable.  We've still got a couple trips planned for the summer.  Hoping to get out to Long Pond outside of Whitney Point and Forked Lake in the Adirondacks.