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July 2021
WDVX Blue Plate Special – Live from Visit Knoxville – 7/29/21 – Aaron Burdett
East Tennessee’s Own WDVX is happy to announce the return of the live WDVX Blue Plate Special three days a week, every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at noon!... Join us on July 29th inside the Knoxville Visitor’s Center on Gay Street downtown as we bring Real Live Music back to the Blue Plate!! We are updating show information daily at our website wdvx.com Aaron Burdett’s lyrics are soul-touching, intelligent, witty, and poetic all at once, while his music style is…
Find out more »The Swerve – Live from Barley’s – 7-29 – Bark
In 2014 Tim Lee and Susan Bauer Lee begat Bark, a product of the melding of two keenly honed, fiercely independent musical minds focused on carving out a 21st century niche situated somewhere between garage rock, punk rock, power pop, The Cramps, The Feelies, The B52s, R. L. Burnside, and the Delta blues. During the Eighties, Tim was part of the DIY indie-rock scene in America as a founding member of the Windbreakers, and a touring sideman with Let’s Active,…
Find out more »WDVX Big Plate – Live from Barley’s – 7/30/21 –Jon Foulk Band
East Tennessee’s Own WDVX is happy to announce the return of the live WDVX Blue Plate Special three days a week, every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at noon!... Join us on July 30th at Barley's at 200 E Jackson Avenue in the Old City as we bring Real Live Music back to the Big Plate!! We are updating show information daily at our website wdvx.com Keyboardist and vocalist Jon Foulk is native of Atlanta, Georgia who spent his formative years in East Tennessee.…
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The WDVX Blue Plate Special – Live from Visit Knoxville – 8/4 – Nate Fredrick
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…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special – Live from Visit Knoxville – 8/5 – Steve Erwin / Rosemary Minasian
Steve Erwin has just recently moved to Knoxville. Also joinning us is Rosemary Minasian. Let's welcome them 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…
Find out more »The Swerve – Live from Barley’s – 8/5 – Melungeons
Melungeons are veterans of legendary bands Teenage Love, Black Velvet Dogs and Evil Twin, the Melungeons are roots rockers who don't wash off the mud. After releasing the critically acclaimed album "Blackwater Swamp," the Melungeons are working on a new release.
Find out more »The WDVX Big Plate – Live from Barley’s – 8/6 – Mac Leaphart
Mac Leaphart is a journeyman musician, Mac Leaphart has filled his award-winning career with a mix of hook-heavy roots music, honky-tonk rock & roll, and salty, sharply-detailed songwriting. It’s a sound that finds the Nashville-based troubadour nodding to those who've come before him — John Prine, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Hayes Carll — while also pushing forward into uncharted territory, earning support from a cross-country spread of folk fans and Americana audiences along the way. Before earning his stripes as…
Find out more »Taps & Tunes on the Corner – Live at Visit Knoxville – 8/6 – Zack Miles
An east Tennessee native, Zack Miles blends a unique, intricate finger-picking style with modern folk. With introspective and self-deprecating lyrics, Miles delivers them with a melodic and proficient guitar style. The new album "You Can't Keep This Up Forever" will be released on October 1st, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqDZdVLJbVw
Find out more »WDVX Blue Plate Special – Live at Visit Knoxville – 8/7/21 – Josh Smith
East Tennessee’s Own WDVX is happy to announce the return of the live WDVX Blue Plate Special four days a week, every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at noon!... Join us on August 7th inside the Knoxville Visitor’s Center on Gay Street downtown as we bring Real Live Music back to the Blue Plate!! We are updating show information daily at our website wdvx.com The heavy heart of Appalachia beats with each and every note of Dogwood Winter, the debut…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special live from Visit Knoxville – 8/11 – The Lucky Losers
The Lucky Losers have been described as “the finest light-skinned female blues vocalist in the U.S” , fiery Dallas-born entertainer Cathy Lemons has a velvet voice with a gritty edge and the rebel conviction of a woman risen from the ashes. New Jersey native Phil Berkowitz "has earned renown as one of the West Coast’s most distinctive harp players, as well as for his sharp, resonant tenor" . The stark contrast between incandescent Lemons and elegant Berkowitz makes for a…
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