Jumping Up From the Ground

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"'What if we get all these great bands to work together, share resources and information and marketing, so that as a group they'll be much more powerful and reach more people than they would individually?'" [Lee Crumpton] says he asked himself when he founded HGMN.

Crumpton founded HGMN with a roster of 12 bands including Keller Williams who, back then, "was just a guy with a guitar and a dog and a truck," Crumpton recalls. "He would go play gigs and sleep in the back of his truck when he had to."

"It's a good way to get people aware of what's happening out there with folks who are under the mainstream," says Keller Williams, the Home Grown Music Festival's headliner and the former owner of the broken-down 'Bago in Crumpton's yard. "More and more bands are cropping up and putting out fantastic music that people are connecting with. And jam band music is just fun to do."

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Jumping Up From the Ground

Home Grown Music Network turns 10.

A broken-down Winnebago sits outside of Lee Crumpton's home and headquarters in Mebane, N.C. The radiator is busted, and the motor failed on the crew's...

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