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September 2021
The WDVX Blue Plate Special live from Visit Knoxville – 9/25 – Twin Kennedy / Fugitive Poets
Twin Kennedy, comprised of West Coast sisters Carli and Julie Kennedy, have been making music together since they could talk. Born and raised in the small town of Powell River, BC, Twin Kennedy grew up perfecting their sibling harmonies and dynamic live performances, while making their name known throughout their small community as a family band. With years of classical training, including their Bachelor's Degrees in Music Performance from the University of Victoria, the sisters have found their home in…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special – 9/28 – Good Morning Bedlam / Pi Jacobs Trio
Good Morning Bedlam has become an innovative force in the midwest folk scene. Their shows are known for their contagious energy, with members careening about the stage, jumping and dancing with a wild playfulness. With tight soaring three part harmonies, and thumping kick-drum, they captivate their audience night after night with no intention of slowing down. Every song is a unique twist on what is generally dubbed as folk music. “We want to surprise our audience from song to song.…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special – 9/29 – Stoll Vaughan / Ryan Biter
Originally hails from Kentucky. Stoll Vaughan’s career in music began in the late 1990s, when he left Interlochlen Arts Academy and went to Bloomington, IN to get involved at Echo Park Studios. Mike Wanchic producer and longtime guitarist for John Mellencamp discovered Stoll and took him under his wing and helped him develop the foundation for his songwriting. Being influenced by Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, Stoll embarked on the journey of writing his own songs. By the…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special live from Visit Knoxville – 9/30 – A Tale Of Two / The Pigeon River Messengers
Combining the best of Americana and Blues melodies with timeless Southern storytelling, Nashville based “A Tale Of Two” is an undeniable rising powerhouse duo in today’s Roots Music scene. Comprised of Award Winning Vocalist Stephanie Adlington and Guitarist Aaron Lessard, “A Tale of Two” draws influence from the likes of Patsy Cline, Tom Waits, and Hank Williams Sr. Not unlike the artists who inspired them, the duo’s songs frequently dabble in stories of revenge, drinking and feature sinners of all stripes…
Find out more »The Swerve live from Barley’s – 9/30 – Tractorhead
Rock & Roll is all in a day’s work if you’re Tractorhead. The Knoxville, Tennessee rock outfit—singer and guitarist Doug Shanklin, guitarist Denny Myers, bassist Stirling Walsh and drummer Mark Coleman—not only came together to produce their debut Album, but have a rock solid history that put them here today. All veterans of the Knoxville music scene, the members have combined their individual influences of Rock, Blues and Country into a tasty Southern offering. With the June 2017 release of the…
Find out more »October 2021
The WDVX Big Plate live from Barley’s – Friday – 10/1 – Ida Mae
WDVX welcome Ida Mae to the Big Plate! Following on from the release of their highly-praised EP Raining For You last year, which garnered huge support from Spotify - they featured the release on their The Most Beautiful Songs In The World, Lost in The Woods, and Blues & Roots Rock playlists - British duo Ida Mae, who create an intense blend of dirty blues guitar and yearning keys with inseparable harmonies mixed in an indie rock cauldron, now return with…
Find out more »Taps & Tunes on the Corner – 10/1 – Tinca Tinca
Tinca Tinca weaves retro-futuristic indie-rock and electronics with themes of love, transience, joy, anxiety, loneliness, and redemption. They will be releasing their self-titled debut album on October 9th, 2021. Tinca Tinca was started by multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Travis Tench.
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special live from Visit Knoxville – 10/2 – Emma Ohm Band
Emma Ohm is a self-proclaimed wild woman. She prides herself off of making music that is groovy but meaningful. Nothing short of a powerhouse, she sings, plays a Tele, writes her own songs, and produces in a genre that blends the fluidity of soul and blues with the hard hitting effect of rock and funk. https://youtu.be/HwTEPTyyeSU
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special live from Visit Knoxville – 10/5 – The Two Tracks
The Two Tracks bring cutting undeniable grooves in the road of Americana music with their new release Cheers to Solitude, Sheridan WY quartet The Two Tracks bend genres into a sound both unique and immediately familiar, laced with a hint of that “high lonesome” tradition. A fistful of years ago, Julie Szewc (pronounced “Chefs”) and Dave Huebner met in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming with one central thing in common; a love of all kinds of music and a thirst…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special – 10/6 – Dori Freeman / Alertski
Ten Thousand Roses, the fourth studio album from singer-songwriter Dori Freeman, showcases an artist who has cemented an inimitable signature sound while simultaneously establishing her as capable of a wide variety of styles. Freeman is about as “bonafide” as an Appalachian artist can be: she was raised among a family of musicians in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. Yet here she shows how multifaceted she is as an artist and how eclectic she is as a person, defying and expanding…
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