A CLOSER LOOK: Big Ears 2026 Four days, forty-two shows, six interviews, and one pilgrimage to Knoxville. I began my first day at Big Ears with a question that had lingered since the festival first popped on my radar more than a decade ago: Why Knoxville? Driving past strip malls and interstates, longing for the high-speed trains and walkable cities of European festivals like Unsound, I was alread...