Black-eyed Snakes ‘grind it out until the end’ during festival week show at Earth Rider The long-time blues rockers played the finale at Thursday night's "Starfire Unofficial Birthday Bash," a Homegrown Music Festival-adjacent event. Written By: Christa Lawler | × Alan Sparhawk leans into the microphone while performing with the Black-eyed Snakes during the "Starfire Unofficial Birthday Bash," a Homegrown Music Festival-adjacent event at the Earth Rider Festival Grounds on Thursday, May 6, 2021, in Superior. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com) Around the 45-minute mark of the Black-eyed Snakes' set on Thursday night at Earth Rider Festival Grounds in Superior, Alan Sparhawk, dressed in a work jumpsuit, a mustache wrapped from one side of his chin to the other, his stocking cap long since fallen from his curtain of curls, admitted to a tent's worth of fans: