Two very different musicians, one festival weekend under Lone Peak. Jamie McLean — former guitarist for New Orleans’ legendary Dirty Dozen Brass Band, with stages from Madison Square Garden to Japan’s Fuji Rock — plays Wildlands Music Festival on Saturday, August 1 alongside Carrie Underwood and Kaitlin Butts, plus a free solo acoustic set at the first-ever Wildlands Family Jam that morning. Willie McMillon of Fader Magavin & the Risky Livers brings underground basement warehouse country from Jackson, Wyoming to Friday night’s bill with Riley Green and LeAnn Rimes — and explains why his band keeps writing checks to a festival they’re already losing money to play.
Jamie comments on being drafted into the Dirty Dozen without a single rehearsal, what Taj Mahal told his tour manager, and why streaming royalties don’t fill a gas tank. Willie speaks to the artist donation he started as a dare to richer bands, the tour bus sticker incident that nearly got him uninvited, and the night his drummer set him on fire with a bottle of 151.
WILDLANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026
July 31 – August 1, Big Sky Events Arena
Tickets and full lineup: wildlandsmusic.com
Wildlands Family Jam — Saturday, Aug. 1, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Big Sky Events Arena VIP Tent. Free, no tickets, all ages. Pancake breakfast, face painting, balloon animals. Papa Strings with special guest Jamie McLean.
JAMIE McLEAN BAND
Latest album One Step Forward — featured track “Summer of Who Knows When”
[JamieMcleanBand.com / Spotify / IG — @jamiemcleanband]
FADER MAGAVIN & THE RISKY LIVERS
New album Troubled Blud, out now on all major streaming platforms
FaderMagavin.com
[Spotify / Instagram — @riskylivers]
CHAPTERS
00:00 Roots rock dude
00:52 How the Jamie McLean Band got its name
02:19 The free Wildlands Family Jam (and the pancake bribe)
03:56 Why Saturday morning is solo acoustic
04:47 The Taj Mahal bus does not leave without Taj Mahal
06:05 Six years in the Dirty Dozen, zero rehearsals
08:15 How bands actually make money now
10:38 What happens when weather cancels a show
12:40 Of Monsters and Men, incognito at Pine Creek Lodge
13:32 Fly fishing, coffee, and Montana off-days
14:19 Tales From the Tour Bus: Jamie
20:01 “Summer of Who Knows When”
21:02 Willie McMillon and the rise of warehouse country
22:13 Two years, one new album: Troubled Blud
23:01 The artist donation that started a trend
24:10 The tour bus sticker incident
25:50 Why protecting Montana land is worth the money
27:36 Tales From the Tour Bus: Willie
31:03 Outro
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