What do you call a band that invented an entire genre called Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass, named themselves on a car ride to a ski town gig because half their band didn't want to make the drive — and then inspired so many artists that Billy Strings himself told founding mandolinist Drew Emmitt "you're my other son"? You call them Leftover Salmon, the Rolling Stones of jamgrass and the accidental architects of everything Colorado jam music became.

In this episode, Schecky traces how Vince Herman drove from West Virginia to Boulder in search of a mythical bluegrass scene, walked into a bar and met Drew Emmitt on his very first night in town, and thirty-five-plus years later stood in the Colorado Music Hall of Fame alongside String Cheese Incident and Yonder Mountain String Band — the two bands that Leftover Salmon directly insp ...