BOURBON & BEYOND: ZACH AND NEIL AND DAVE, OH MY!

A brown-liquor-fueled rock & roll fantasy land awaits at the 2024 edition of the Danny Wimmer Presents' Bourbon & Beyond festival, which returns to the Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville 9/19-22. The intoxicating lineup boasts Neil Young, Zach Bryan, Beck, the Dave Matthews Band, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Cody Jinks and two of Derby City's favorite sons, My Morning Jacket and Tyler Childers.

Drawing upwards of 170k attendees per year, the outing has traditionally taken place the weekend before Wimmer's hard rock-leaning Louder Than Life. Bourbon & Beyond 2024 will boast The National, The War on Drugs, the Beach Boys, Maren Morris, Matchbox Twenty, Fleet Foxes, Black Pumas, Lyle Lovett, Bruce Hornsby, Suzanne Vega, Melissa Etheridge and Soul Asylum. Click on the graphic for a larger view you can, um, pore over.

As per the name, there will be more bourbon on offer than anyone can possibly imagine, along with demonstrations by master distillers and celebrity chefs. The total volume of booze consumed, however, will pale next to the amount of Jim Beam we sucked down last night. In a related story: Oy.