Pretty often, the first thing you notice about longtime music artist Joe Craven are the clothes. KVMR 89.5 FM Chief Engineer Dave Barnett remembers walking around a corner at a summer music festival and bursting out laughing as he spied Craven in an outlandish outfit. “He even told the crowd it was his first time at a bluegrass festival,” Craven recalls. Chico music store owner Bruce MacMillan, himself an accomplished acoustic music artist, completes the “string-centric” trio. And no one who saw him wring a percussion concerto from his garbage-bag raincoat during a downpour at a Strawberry Music Festival could disagree with that comment.