The 13th Annual Tennessee Soybean Festival kicked off this year’s free weekend concert series with the popular ‘90s group, Spin Doctors.

Even though they only had three popular songs in their career, all off of their first album Pocket Full of Kryptonite, more than 1800 fans emerged from their homes to sit in the warm evening air to watch the show.

People of all ages turned out for the concert which was held at the Downtown Stage in Martin. In attendance were UTM students, city officials, UTM faculty and staff, Martin families, and people who had driven hundreds of miles to attend the festival.

The Spin Doctors did not leave their fans in suspense for too long to hear the 1992 hit “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”, and the crowd could not have been more excited. After playing some of their older and more popular songs, the Spin Doctors played a few songs from their new album Nice Talking to Me, which has been in stores since September of last year.

The performance also included “Yo Mama’s a Pajama”, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite”, “Two Princes”, “Margarita”, “Nice Talking to Me”, and “Sugar.”

The concert was co-sponsored by the UTM Student Activities Council, Reelfoot Bank and the City of Martin.

The Soybean Festival Committee has been working on putting the festival together since the end of last year’s festival. It has been said that this year’s festivities were bigger and better than any preceding Soybean Festival. Also performing at this year’s festival was 38 Special, featuring former members of Lynyrd Skynard, and Diamond Rio.

To learn more about the group or to check out some of the music that you might not have heard at the show this weekend, you can check out their Web site at www.spindoctors.com.