All week long, one theme running through SunFest was how many bands who’d made it big in the 1990s were playing.

Collective Soul, Gin Blossoms, Tonic and if you wanted to stretch it a little, UB40 (1980s and ’90s) all got a lot of interest. But there was one more group that didn’t seem to get as much attention.

And that’s a shame, because for a time during the early 1990s, Candlebox was as big as any of them.

Led by powerful vocalist Kevin Martin, Candlebox seemed to be in permanent rotation on MTV and the radio during 1993 and 1994. Songs like “You” and “Far Behind” were staples of rock radio.

On the Tire Kingdom stage Sunday afternoon, the band showed the kind of fiery performance that landed them in the spotlight in the first place.

To be honest, there’s nothing exactly groundbreaking musically about Candlebox — theirs is a meat-and-potatoes rock style, very straight forward.

The selling point is Martin. He’s got a truly fine rock voice — which he showed off during a medley of covers (which came off a little cliched, but still fun) diving into both Led Zeppelin and Ozzy Osbourne’s classics without difficulty. His sound is effortless, and fits well over Candlebox’s heavy-but-not-too-heavy hard rock.

Seeing the band perform “Far Behind” was a highlight — and I learned something: Martin wrote the lyrics about Andrew Wood, the lead singer of one of my all-time favorite bands, Mother Love Bone. After Wood died in 1990, some of that band’s members hired on Eddie Vedder to form Pearl Jam.