Writer, performer, banjo, and guitarist Tony Petersen performs rock ‘n’ roll as Ditchbird for his solo sets. While touring nationally with alternative band Social Animals, a group that has opened for big acts such as All-American Rejects, he needed a space for his newly written tunes that didn’t quite gel with the full band’s “cathartic stomp.” In his album Real Enough for You, he scaled back his songwriting to its acoustic roots. Petersen co-wrote and co-produced five bluegrass albums with the Duluth band Saint Anyway, and produced the album Ride Of My Life with Duluth act Colleen Myhre.