Nate Fredrick is a native Missourian, Nate learned to play guitar after his dad brought one home—that he never learned to play—when Nate was 12. But he didn’t start writing songs until a decade later. “A friend and I were running from the police one night, and I accidentally fell off a cliff,” Nate says. “During the two-year recovery process, I started actually making music instead of just playing music. The first show I ever had, I played with my…

Steve Erwin has just recently moved to Knoxville. Let's welcome him by coming to his Blue Plate Special! https://youtu.be/979153tlnC4 Rosemary Minasian (pronounced "min-ASS-ee-an") is a singer-songwriter who is currently involved in a multitude of musical projects in New Orleans, LA. They have participated in an "adventure choir," Murmurations, and Serpentine. Through these opportunities, Rosemary met musical collaborators including Toren Hardee and Peter J Bowling. They formed the experimental trio, Wavering, which released I'm Not Afraid, on Bandcamp, June 4. The…

Waylon Payne is a son of country music royalty, a teenaged Baptist preacher turned addict and actor, Payne sings about fathers and sons, faith and addiction, recovery and renewal with devastating clarity. His character-rich collection harks back to a way of telling stories in song that revealed kept secrets and promised mystery. Over his years, Payne has felt the terrible power secrets can hold and learned the transformative value of releasing them. Finally, he’s in a place where he can…

Amy Speace grew up in Baltimore as the oldest child of four, Speace discovered music, words and a love of language early on. Her grandmother taught her to read at 3 years old by reading street signs. By 5 she was writing poetry, and by 8 she’d learned to play piano. Over the next decade, the family moved often, then Speace enrolled in Amherst College in Massachusetts. Not knowing what where to go after graduation, she took her professors’ advice…