The Great North Special AND Dustbowl Revival at Lost on Main – Chico, CA

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Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Doors at 8PM
JUST ADDED: Dustbowl Revivial

Website:https://www.thegreatnorthspecial.com/

Website: https://dustbowlrevival.com/

We won’t harp on the geographic contradiction of The Great North Special coming to us from Southern California. What’s in a name anyways? What we’re talking about here is a bona fide force of nature – a 7-piece Americana jam band that fuses together a unique blend of country-blues, psych-rock and funk-soul. Beautiful melodies and tight grooves provide the soundtrack for full-surrender dance release at all of their live shows.

Their sound features propulsive percussion, elegantly harmonized vocals and guitars and effervescent piano and organ. Each performance is a soul-driven, ecstatic whirlwind of exploration through improvisation and crowd connection. It’s all built upon a rock-solid foundation of inspired, original songwriting. The band was a favorite at this year’s High Sierra Music Festival and they are back up North ready to rock Lost on Main for their Chico, CA debut!

(Credit: Tyler Blue from The Crazy Horse Saloon, Nevada City)

Dustbowl Revival

How do you describe genre-defying roots music adventurers Dustbowl Revival? Even tireless founder and lead songwriter Z. Lupetin would agree you have to come to a show to find out. Going strong into their second decade after starting from a humble Craigslist ad posted in bohemian Venice Beach, some would say Dustbowl’s ever-evolving collective (there have been nearly thirty members!) plays a spicy cocktail of folky-funk or booty-shaking jangly rock n’ soul: expertly mixing their New Orleans-tinted brass section with their signature Laurel Canyon harmonies and fearless lyrics.

While most bands stay in one lane or fade away quickly, Dustbowl Revival is a testament to building a fanbase and their own sound the old-fashioned way, with hard work and moving songs that stick to your bones when you leave the concert. There’s a reason they continue to get written up in Rolling Stone and Billboard and get played on AAA radio 16 years after they set sail.

Long known for their knock-out festival performances which often spill off the stage into the crowd – recent notable appearances at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco, Rhythm N Roots in Rhode Island, Waterfront Blues in Portland, The Cambridge Folk Fest in England and Tonder Festival in Denmark highlight a few of their favorite stops – not to mention their state-department tour of China which prompted a funny mini documentary on Youtube.

In 2019 the group completed a successful run of performing art centers paying homage to their heroes in The Band (Robbie Robertson even sent a signed vinyl as a thank you) and in 2024-2025 Dustbowl is embarking on a new run of theaters and festivals showcasing the music of LA’s Laurel Canyon. A brassy Beatles cover will come this fall followed by a new record of originals slated for early 2025 – recorded in cabin studio in Wisconsin with noted engineer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens).

However you sip their sound, Dustbowl Revival has become a beloved fixture of the Americana community – from playing tiny speakeasies and pubs around their southern California base, to headlining thousands of shows in ten countries and counting. Indeed, founder Z. Lupetin’s quixotic Craigslist ad hoping to find like-minded music-makers to play songs inspired equally by Wilco, Bob Dylan and Springsteen as Nina Simone, Fleetwood Mac and Bill Withers may seem confusing, but somehow it’s worked.