Congratulations to Nelly, who I’d wager had one of the livelier crowds of Stagecoach this year. You know, the festival known for country music. The audience was spilling outside of the Palomino tent ...

The set was focused heavily on the music, with a bare-bones stage that had no graphics or other visual gimmicks, and Simpson barely spoke a word to the crowd.

He brought that sense of redemption to his Stagecoach set, telling the audience at one point this was the largest crowd he'd ever played in front of.