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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 12/6 - The Knox County Jug Stompers
DESCRIPTION:The Knox County Jug Stompers are an old time jug band from Knoxville.
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LOCATION:Barley’s\,  200 East Jackson Avenue\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37915\, United States
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special - 11/29 - Acoustic Tone Zone
DESCRIPTION:Jack Hatfield is from Knoxville\, TN. This group came together to help record Jack’s solo banjo album. Jack taught bluegrass instruments at Broadway Sound for seventeen years and performed on WNOX radio’s live broadcast Saturday night Barn Dance before moving to Pigeon Forge to perform at Dollywood and Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede. He performed locally with mandolin great Red Rector and worked with Ava Barber and Dick Dale at their theater in Pigeon Forge. Jack wrote a column for Banjo Newsletter Magazine for thirty years and still contributes occasionally. He has published over twenty-five instruction books for Mel Bay Publications and his own Hatfield Music. He was invited to be on the faculty of the Tennessee Banjo Institute in Lebanon\, TN in 1988. This was the very first acoustic music camp\, spawning an industry in the bluegrass world. He was bluegrass director of Banjo Newsletter’s Maryland Banjo Institute and Chuck Stearman’s Traditional Music Camp in Nashville. He has directed the annual SPBGMA (Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America) banjo workshop for twenty-eight years and has toured all over the USA and in four other countries combining banjo workshops and performances. He founded his own Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy music camp in 2004. He is founder of True Blue bluegrass band and Hatfield’s Heathens (americana band)\, having entertained at festivals\, concert venues and special events around East Tennessee for over forty years. \nDave Eggar is a product of the renowned Julliard school of music. He was a child prodigy\, appearing at Carnegie Hall at age fifteen on piano. Long before Dave was renowned as a world class cellist\, he was writing\, performing\, and recording with Amy Lee and Evanescence\, playing on Coldplay’s #1 smash “Viva La Vida\,” touring with American Idol winner Phillip Phillips and directing local symphony orchestras on tour with the supergroup Foreigner\, he quietly launched a solo career as a composer/pianist\, releasing the solo piano albums Serenity (1998) and Angelic Embrace (2002). He has four solo albums and has contributed to a dozen Grammy – nominated projects. He is a highly sought-after recording artist in the New Age community. Sidelined from his whirlwind road and New York City studio career during the pandemic lockdown\, Dave moved to Bristol\, TN and stays booked at a recording studio there\, remotely recording and arranging orchestral scores\, commercials\, and album overdubs. He is probably one of busiest cellists on the planet. \nRusty Holloway is from Knoxville\, TN. He has been a professional bass player since the age of sixteen\, beginning his career as a sideman backing such artists as The Tams\, The Platters\, The Drifters\, The Coasters\, Little Anthony\, “Fats” Domino\, Martha Reeves\, Percy Sledge\, along with many regional rhythm and blues\, country\, society\, bluegrass\, and gospel groups. He toured for several years with jazz legend\, Woody Herman. In the acoustic/bluegrass world he has recorded with Beppe Gambetta\, John Carlini\, Don Stiernberg\, Steve Spurgin\, the Kruger brothers\, Kenny Kosek and many more. He spent thirty-five years as a university bass teacher and studio orchestra conductor\, a clinician in many major university programs\, and for several years was a highly sought-after studio musician in New York City. \nGarrett and Gavin Gregg fill out the ensemble. They are also from Knoxville\, TN. On guitar and mandolin respectively\, these undiscovered brothers are among the best acoustic pickers anywhere. They both have totally original approaches to their instruments. Garrett is also a masterful banjo player. Garrett currently performs with Jack Hatfield’s True Blue bluegrass band\, and Gavin performs with Redd the Band among others.
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LOCATION:Barley’s\,  200 East Jackson Avenue\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37915\, United States
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 11/22 - Darren Nicholson Band
DESCRIPTION:If you’re looking to be impressed\, you will be – if you’re looking to make a friend\, you already have. Darren Nicholson\, who has played mountain music since his youth in Western North Carolina\, is a high-caliber musician with substantial contributions to such acts as Alecia Nugent and Balsam Range. \nYes\, he’s a punchy mandolinist with instrumentation nods to Bill Monroe and Marty Stuart\, but he’s also an introspective songwriter\, technical harmony singer\, convincing lead vocalist\, and a man on a mission. Since going solo\, Nicholson has persistently and earnestly invested in his shows\, making each one a tailored experience. They are genuine\, entertaining\, and an extended handshake to the community. He’s accomplished this all while managing to retain the fun-witted and approachable character formed in his raising. \nThe latest album\, Wanderer\, garnered critical acclaim and produced two #1 singles\, and he’s also co-written hit songs for other artists\, such as The Grascals’ “I Go” and “Just Let Me Know\,” but Darren’s more interested in sharing raw\, honest-to-goodness\, quality music with his audience. Music that’s good for his soul and theirs too. “That’s all I want\,” says Darren. “I want to be a positive part of other people’s lives with music\, you know? I want to be an ambassador to roots music – tip my hat to the past while looking forward at the same time.” \nDarren assembles a variety of all star collaborations – but no matter the lineup there’s a journey to experience in every show. You feel the adrenaline of a quick number like “Sugar Creek Gap”\, the gravity of a soul searcher like “Things Left Undone”\, and the levity of his unpredictable antics. “This music was intended to be played in a way that adds joy to the community. All I want is to restore that purpose\, not to complete a transaction.” \nHe may not be focused on commercial success but his accomplishments have certainly earned recognition. Darren is the recipient of 13 International Bluegrass Music Association awards\, along with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine\, the highest honor bestowed by North Carolina’s governor. He’s also a Grammy nominee. But he won’t talk your ear off about that – he barely agreed to let us put that (long) list on here. \nWhen you come out to a show\, whatever you do\, please come talk afterward. “I’m like Willie Nelson. ‘I don’t want fans\, I want friends.’ It’s a communal thing.” \nDarren Nicholson. Homegrown. Whole Hearted. Music with a purpose.
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LOCATION:Barley’s\,  200 East Jackson Avenue\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37915\, United States
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 11/8 - Smokin’ Dave and The Premo Dopes
DESCRIPTION:Smokin’ Dave and The Premo Dopes was formed in 1982 under cloudless circumstances\, this band is here to serve your musical needs. Unless\, of course\, they got bowling league night.
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 10/25 - RB Morris & Band
DESCRIPTION:RB Morris is a poet and songwriter\, solo performer and band leader\, and a sometimes playwright and actor from Knoxville\, Tennessee. He has published books of poetry including Early Fires (Iris Press)\, Keeping The Bees Employed\, and The Mockingbird Poems (Rich Mountain Bound)\, and music albums including Spies Lies and Burning Eyes\, and his most recent solo project Rich Mountain Bound. He wrote and acted in The Man Who Lives Here Is Looney\, a one-man play taken from the life and work of James Agee\, and was instrumental in founding a park dedicated to Agee in Knoxville. Morris served as the Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence at The University of Tennessee from 2004-2008\, and was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame in 2009. He currently lives in Knoxville with his wife and daughter.
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 10/18 - Daniel Kimbro / Jay Clark promoting Benefit Shows
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Kimbro will be promoting Appalachian Allies Benefit Show. \nI live in East Tennessee. I have two kids\, a whining\, braying hound dog\, and I have a wife who tolerates my making the pursuit of music my career and lifestyle. \nI play the bass\, mainly. I started out on the guitar\, but the first cover band I auditioned for said\, “we could use a bass player.” \nI grew up in places called Morristown and White Pine in East Tennessee. \nMy parents fed me on a steady diet of bass and crappie fishing\, The Stanley Brothers\, Van Halen\, Flatt & Scruggs\, W.A. Mozart\, The Police\, New Grass Revival\, Guy Clark\, and Townes Van Zandt\, among many others. Mom taught me the recorder and I played the trombone in the 5th grade. We had a family bluegrass band called “Mountain Soul” in which I played mostly guitar\, and then some bass. Dad drove us all over East Tennessee with our plywood bass strapped to the roof of our car. One time we drove into a parking garage and forgot it was up there. I stopped playing trombone in college and immediately got laid. Speaking of getting laid\, back to bluegrass… \nOur family band played only the finest backwoods general stores\, swap meets\, cake walks\, Civil War reenactments\, volunteer fire-halls\, tanning bed salons\, Cocke County family reunions (we crashed one just to meet a really good clawhammer banjoist)\, and one massively awkward Seventh Day Adventist church service…I wouldn’t trade the times on stage with my parents and brothers for anything in the world. I would trade some of the food though. \nI began my “formal” music education in 2001 at the University of Tennessee\, which is where I began studying the double bass. I went to school for way too many years and managed to graduate with a degree and a half in Strings Performance and Studio Music and Jazz\, though I’ll say I’ve learned more in the last 10 years than I did in the previous 25. I’m grateful to my college bass professor\, Rusty Holloway\, for the invaluable lessons he taught me about how to learn and perform music\, and how to be a team player. \nDuring college and after\, I’ve been fortunate to travel and play with many different groups all across the U.S. and Canada\, Northern Europe/Scandinavia\, and Japan. During a tour with the Lovell Sisters Band I had the privilege of playing in front of perennial Grammy award-winning resophonic guitarist Jerry Douglas\, and he asked me to join his band in 2013. I’m grateful to Jerry\, and thanks in no small part to him I’ve been fortunate enough to share the stage (or at least sit around and pick) with many of the folks I grew up listening to. \nIn March of 2017 I was asked to handle bass duties on the Transatlantic Sessions 2017 US Tour\, where I had the honor of subbing for bass great and personal hero Danny Thompson. During that tour I found myself accompanying Sir Aly Bain\, James Taylor\, Jerry Douglas\, Alison Krauss\, Rodney Crowell\, Mary Chapin Carpenter\, Roseanne Cash\, John Paul White\, Sarah Jarosz\, Aoife O’Donovan\, The Milk Carton Kids\, Declan O’Rourke\, Karen Matheson\, Maura O’Connell\, Joe Newberry\, Russ Barenburg\, John Doyle\, James Mackintosh\, John McCukser\, Michael McGoldrick\, and Donald Shaw. That was a whirlwind full of amazing music and lovely people. It is really fun to ask for more James Taylor in your monitor. \nIn 2014 or so I was introduced to Martin Harley by our mutual friend Sam Lewis. Martin and I hit it off and made a couple records\, and now I go to England and Canada a fair bit. There’s lots of rule following\, traffic cameras\, and boot/hat fashion advice flowing both ways (oft ignored).Sam\, Martin and I are currently working on a trio record. That’s right ladies. Trio. \nIn 2018 we in the Jerry Douglas Band were nominated for a Grammy award in the the “Best Contemporary Instrumental Record.” We lost. \nIn late 2018 I was asked to join the Flatt & Scruggs tribute band The Earls of Leicester. I said yes. \nIn early 2019 I was asked to once again step into Danny Thompson’s huge brogues and perform with the Transatlantic Sessions for the UK tour throughout Scotland\, England and Ireland\, alongside featured artists Tim O’brien\, Molly Tuttle\, Gretchen Peters\, Cara Dillon and Paul McKenna. Then we did it again in 2020\, right before Covid\, alongside Tommy Emmanuel\, Cahalen Morrison\, Sierra Hull\, Rachel Sermanni\, and Cathy Jordan. I asked Cathy Jordan to marry me. She said no. \nThough they don’t likely remember me\, I’ve been able to make music with the likes of Brendon James Wright\, Sam Lewis\, Martin Harley\, Robinella\, Hector Qirko\, R.B. Morris\, Casey Driessen\, Larkin Poe\, Thom Hell\, John Frazier\, Matt Menefee\, The Whistles & The Bells\, Jeff Sipe\, John Medeski\, Jason Isbell\, Maggie Longmire\, Your Mom\, John Hiatt\, Sarah Siskind\, …and I’ve been able to play some remarkable venues: The Ryman Auditorium\, The Grand Ole Opry\, The Tennessee Theater\, Bonnaroo\, Telluride Bluegrass Festival\, MerleFest\, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\, StordFest\, The Vancouver Island Folk Festival\, The Kate Wolf Folk Festival\, The Edmonton Folk Festival\, New Orleans Jazz Fest\, The Blue Note Tokyo\, Chateau St. Michelle\, Jammin at Hippie Jacks\, The Bijou Theater\, Rochester International Jazz Festival\, and a bunch of others I can’t remember right now…anyway\, it’s been fun\, and it’s getting better all the time. Thanks for listening\, and I hope to see you somewhere. \n \nAlthough Jay Clark went to college for 11.5 years and has a PhD in wildlife ecology\, he somehow ended up striking a balance between careers in music & science. Jay grew up in Winchester\, Tennessee\, near where the western escarpment of the Cumberland Plateau crosses from Tennessee into Alabama. His dad was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister for 42 years. His mom an English teacher. Church played a huge roll in Jay’s upbringing. It was in the church where Jay learned to sing & in the mountains where he felt closest to God. Jay wrote his first song in 1990. He didn’t know how to play guitar\, so he taught himself to play in order to put music to his first song. That song was the first of many. \nJay has been a staple in the East Tennessee music scene for more than 20 years. During his college years\, Jay not only trapped & conducted research on black bears in the Smokies\, but also played in a couple of different bluegrass bands\, most notably a brother-style duo with Keith Garrett (currently of The Boxcars) and later in a bluegrass band\, The Stringbeans\, with Robinella and Cruz Contreras (currently of The Black Lillies). Since releasing his first record in 2004 (Pen to Paper)\, Jay has supplemented his career as a scientist with performing his songs across the Southeast & southern Appalachia. Presently\, Jay plays a number of his shows with his band\, Jay Clark & the Tennessee Tree Beavers\, which features Greg Horne on lead guitar & Daniel Kimbro on upright bass. Jay recently released his fifth recording\, Of Mountains & Heartbreak (2016). He still uses the other side of his brain as an adjunct professor in the Biology Department at Maryville College. Jay resides in the foothills of the Smokies on 31.5 acres in Rockford\, TN\, with his wife\, Stacy\, and their pack of rescue hounds. For more info\, visit www.jayclarkmusic.com.
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 10/11 - India Ramey
DESCRIPTION:India Ramey blazes a trail through cinematic spaghetti western landscapes to wood floored Honkytonks and the Appalachian foothills. Saving Country Music describes her as “like Loretta Lynn grew Betty Page bangs\, and a habit of using bad words” and No Depression says of her newest album\, “On her new album\, India Ramey is here to kick ass\, play honky-tonk and chew bubblegum and she’s all out of gum.” \nFeatured as one of the “Must See Acts at SXSW “(No Depression\, Austin Chronicle)\, a Nashville’s Lighting 100 artist of the week\, a three-time Americana Fest showcasing artist\, and one of NPR’s “10 Nashville Artists on the Rise”\, India has only continued to rise among the ranks of as one of Country and Americana’s brightest up and coming artists. Ramey’s last two albums’ mix of Americana noire\, country and southern-gothic songwriting helped expand Ramey’s reputation far beyond the Deep South and she’s toured heavily around and beyond those releases. Her 2020 album\, Shallow Graves debuted at number six on the Euro Americana Charts and landed a song as Rolling Stone’s pick of the week. \nRamey has just released her newest and biggest album yet\, Baptized By The Blaze\, produced by Grammy award winning producer\, Luke Wooten (The SteelDrivers\, Brad Paisley\, Dierks Bentley\, Sunny Sweeny\, Jim Lauderdale). The new album combines India’s classic country sound with her dark cinematic imagery cohesively and seamlessly and it is already off to an impressive start\, blowing up from number #90 to #8 in just one week on the Alt. Country Charts\, landing at #1 most added the first week on Americana Radio and #1 on the Bubblin Up Americana Chart list in the second week on Americana Radio.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-big-plate-10-11-india-ramey/
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 10/4 - Colby T Helms & The Va Creepers
DESCRIPTION:Colby T Helms & The Va Creepers: \nThe Blue Ridge Mountains wind through eight states over a stretch of 615 miles. In Virginia\, they overlook Franklin County south of Roanoke. Back in the day\, bootleggers would refer to the area as “The Moonshine Capital of the World” due to its perfect placement to export contraband. These days\, the textile mills of Rocky Mount and other once cozy-towns have shut down\, leaving minimal opportunity and a lot of hopelessness. At the bottom of the Southwest Virginia foothills half-a-mile from the nearest neighbor\, Colby Helms resides in an “underground house” built by his late father. He hunts and takes care of his mom. He also pens the kind of raw and real country music that cuts to the bone. After signing to Photo Finish Records\, he introduces himself with a series of 2023 singles and his forthcoming debut album.​ \n“I want to show what it’s like to grow up in a rural\, impoverished area\,” he says. “A lot of these old little towns in Virginia and North Carolina used to be thriving\, and now they’re nothing. There are a lot of people on welfare who can’t hardly do anything besides struggle to survive. There’s addiction. There’s pain. Sonically\, I’m drawing from all of the classic Appalachian musicians. I believe a lot of the old music is too good to be lost. I’m trying to be a time capsule and hold this true feeling and carry it with me. In my music\, I’m telling a story about people who came from nothing—like my dad and me—and made something out of it.”​ \nColby’s mother and father became parents later in life. Mom worked as a secretary\, while dad was a handyman and “the go-to guy for anyone around here for when something went wrong.” At the same time\, pops loved to sing classics from yesteryear to his boy and constantly play the Juice Harp. “He played that thing so much he had false teeth\,” recalls Colby. After achieving a Civil Engineering Degree during the energy crisis of the seventies\, dad chose to build a sustainable home underground. Made from different types of wood and rocks from the mountains\, it evoked a certain fairytale magic. At 12-years-old\, Colby endured the loss of his father due to cancer. Beset by sadness and loneliness\, he turned to music. He taught himself guitar\, banjo\, and mandolin by watching local performers and YouTube videos. He amassed a growing record collection\, combing through the stacks at flea markets and browsing eBay. Under the influence of the forefathers of country\, he listened to dusty vinyl from Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys\, Bob Willis & His Texas Playboys\, and Jimmie Rodgers in addition to embracing modern artists.​ \nAlong the way\, he carefully developed a signature style of his own.​ \n“This is a vision I’ve had since I was in early high school\,” he goes on. “I really got into the history of the genre. I wish I had earlier\, because I could’ve talked to my dad about it. The music tells part of my life and hopefully shows listeners a part of the world they haven’t seen before.”​ \nJoined by his band The Virginia Creepers\, he cut his teeth with countless gigs around the area. He also shared a series of arresting D.I.Y. performance videos on YouTube\, including “Smoke and Flames.” With starkly honest songwriting and a sharp angular twang to his vocals\, he struck a dynamic balance between country storytelling\, blue grass energy\, and blues power. He caught the attention of Photo Finish Records and inked a deal with the label in 2023. \nNow\, he’s shining a light on a very special part of America and offering up hope.​ \n“When you listen to me\, I hope you feel like you’re not alone and you have a chance to fulfill your purpose\,” he leaves off. “Everyone deserves to know this. I also want you to know Appalachia is not just a dead-end place full of dead-end people. There is still growth happening here. I’m trying to give you a taste of our way of life.”
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 9/20 - Po Ramblin Boys
DESCRIPTION:At a time when most people feel constantly distracted by technology and barraged by the news\, authenticity and straightforward honesty are paramount. There’s something about the music of The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys that cuts right through the noise of the world and speaks plainly to the soul. Formed ten years ago in the Smoky Mountains in 2014\, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys are at once exactly what you would expect and not at all what you would expect from a tattooed East Tennessee Bluegrass outfit. But they take pride in being ambassadors of their genre\, and the group has brought their music from rural bluegrass festival stages to the rock clubs of Europe\, with stunning results.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-big-plate-9-20-po-ramblin-boys/
LOCATION:Barley’s\,  200 East Jackson Avenue\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,The Big Plate
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate - 9/13 - Blake Christiana / Zach Russell
DESCRIPTION:Blake Christiana\, founding member of Yarn\, has the music in him. In fact\, you could say that Blake is the music and the music is Blake; that’s how deeply he inhabits the songs he writes and plays. You can hear him struggling with his feelings\, whether it’s on a skittering country shuffle or on a mid-tempo folk ballad or a straight-ahead rocker. His restless search for the chords and lyrics over the past 20 years has produced a plethora of memorable music\, and since 2007 he’s led Yarn\, a band that’s evolved from its earliest days as a bar band in New York City to an outstanding roots band that’s shared stages with Dwight Yoakam\, Marty Stuart\, Alison Krauss\, and Leftover Salmon\, among many others. \n \nEach year\, thousands of people flock to the city of Nashville with hopes of “making it”. Ironically\, it wasn’t until Zach Russell made the decision to leave Music City\, USA that he inked his first record deal with Thirty Tigers. The drive back home may have only been three hours long\, but Russell’s journey back to old haunts in Eastern Tennessee isn’t quite that cut and dry. \nIn the 7 years preceding that trip down I-40\, there were stints as a manager at a shoe store and a karaoke host. He calloused his hands installing irrigation systems and working as a carpenter. He traveled the US and Europe as Tyler Childers’ merchandise manager and got to witness firsthand what it takes to chase down greatness. Through it all\, one thing that remained constant was his belief that he could chase it down as well. \nMusic has always played a pivotal role in Russell’s life. A background in Baptist and Hymnal music as a youth and a taste for hip-hop\, rock\, and country music informed his musical style between 2016 and 2020 as he found his footing. In 2021 the world received its proper introduction to Zach Russell as a fully formed artist with the release The Creek. This five-song EP proved not only to be a landmark release in Russell’s career\, but with its lyrical depth\, soaring instrumental jams and infectious melodies\, it served as proof that this landmark was merely the first of many to come. \nSince moving home and finding clarity\, the past 18 months have been busy for Russell. He spent those months writing music\, touring with The Alex Leach Band\, and delivering a guest appearance on Adeem the Artist critically acclaimed album\, White Trash Revelry. That wave of momentum has culminated to this moment\, and the release of his highly anticipated full-length debut\, Where the Flowers Meet the Dew. \nOnce again joining forces with up-and-coming producer Kyle Crownover (Adeem the Artist)\, this ten-song effort never takes its foot off the gas pedal. Dominant themes of wrestling with mortality\, pondering reincarnation\, and finding that ever elusive feeling of contentment in this life weave gracefully through. \nAs the old saying goes\, “Big hitters take big swings.”\, and Russell’s choice as the first single is as bold a statement as can be made. Coming in at a shade over seven minutes long\, “Born Again” begins as a rockabilly banger\, then midway through\, via a psychedelic segue it morphs into a funky\, groove heavy jam. Russell sings of reincarnation and hints that perhaps every waking moment is\, in fact\, an opportunity to start anew. \nThe first half of the record is filled with traditional waltzes (“I Thought I Was the Trees”\, “Take Me Back to Tennessee”)\, haunting electric folk (“What You Want Comes to You”)\, and 60’s R&B style (“Milk & Honey”) cuts. Its deep\, mellow\, and the lyrics are contemplative. It draws you in while not letting the listener get too comfortable. \nBeginning with the aforementioned rip-roaring lead single\, the back half of the record brings with it an altogether different vibe. Greasy\, distorted guitar licks pepper the back half of Where the Flowers Meet the Dew. “Playing House” fully displays his creative dexterity\, and would be right at home on a post-grunge rock radio station\, circa 1998\, sandwiched between Matchbox 20 and Third Eye Blind numbers. Later\, on “Nothin’ to Haul”\, he boldly calls out the posers and wannabes that fill the Nashville scene. \n“Concrete Cowboy \nPullin’ up in your two-wheel drive \nConcrete cowboy \nPullin’ up trying to sell me a lie” \nThis is done lightheartedly\, but there’s an underlying current filtering through the back half of the record that bristles with tongue in cheek humor\, confidence\, and all-out swagger. As a whole\, Where the Flowers Meet the Dew is a remarkably ambitious effort that undoubtably demands and is worthy of repeated listens. \nIn 2018 Zach Russell packed his things and left a ten-year town to return to the sanctity of the wide-open spaces and dense forests of home. Returning to his comfort zone ultimately gave him the freedom to create something outside of it. Something beautiful. Something that will live forever. Where the Flowers Meet the Dew leaves zero doubt\, Zach Russell has been born again. \n \n 
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LOCATION:Barley’s\,  200 East Jackson Avenue\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37915\, United States
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