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July 2021
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,…
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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 Swerve – Live from Barley’s – 8-12 – Redd Daugherty & Will Ross
Redd Daugherty & Will Ross Join WDVX in welcoming East Tennessee’s Own, Redd Daugherty. She appeared on the current 2021 season of The Voice! Redd & Will are a local Knoxville, indie-folk band. They got their start up during quarantine of 2020, and have been inseparable ever since. Will Ross is currently finishing a jazz performance major for bass at The University of Tennessee. Redd appeared on Season 4 of American Idol 2021, and she is currently a high school…
Find out more »The Swerve – Live from Barley’s – 8-19 – Kevin Abernathy
Kevin Abernathy has been hailed as “the best undiscovered singer-songwriter in America,” his 2012 release Some Stories called “a masterpiece,” his songwriting and story-telling compared to such legends as John Prine and Steve Earle. Abernathy takes each accolade in stride, then puts his proverbial shoulder to the wheel and gets back to work. In just over a decade, he’s released eight CDs (from 2006’s Better Days to last year’s Family Hour), always going stylistically down whichever path his muse leads him,…
Find out more »The Swerve – Live from Barley’s – 8-26 – Erin Coburn
Erin Coburn is settled in Kentucky, making music that is primarily Rock, which is heavily influenced by artists like Badflower, The Black Keys, and Cage the Elephant. Erin released her debut album Chaos Before Conformity in 2015, followed by her sophomore release Queen of Nothing two years later and her third record in 2019, Out From Under. Since then, Coburn’s fanbase has grown both nationally and worldwide. Making music since she was 12, Erin Coburn is an artist who is…
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