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SUMMARY:Mark Hummel & The Blues Survivors — Hardin Valley Event Center — 10/16
DESCRIPTION:A Night of World-Class Blues in KnoxvilleJoin us at the Hardin Valley Event Center on Friday\, October 16\, for an unforgettable evening with Mark Hummel & The Blues Survivors\, featuring Anson Funderburgh\, Wes Starr and Josh Minucci!\nWhether you are a longtime blues fan or simply looking for a great night out\, come enjoy incredible live music\, local vendors\, food trucks\, drinks from The Casual Pint and an all-around good time.\nBring your friends folding chairs and grab some drinks and food from Casual Pint and our food trucks.\nEvent Schedule5:00 PM — Gates Open6:30 PM — Opening Act7:00 PM — Mark Hummel & The Blues Survivors\nWe will have accessible parking available\, along with convenient parking located right beside the building.\nGuests will also have the opportunity to see our new HUB\, a versatile rental space perfect for corporate gatherings\, bridal showers\, birthday parties\, private celebrations and more.\n Hardin Valley Event Center2620 Willow Point WayKnoxville\, TN 37931Tickets are available at TicketSource.com/HVEC\, or you can pay cash at the door.\nCome early\, grab something to eat\, shop with our vendors and settle in for a fantastic night of live blues in Hardin Valley!\nSponsored by the Smoky Mountain Blues Society
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/mark-hummel-the-blues-survivors-hardin-valley-event-center-10-16/
LOCATION:Hardin Valley Event Center\, 2620 Willow Point Way\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37931
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/17 — Bristol Coon / Maya de Vitry
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Southern California\, Bristol Coon is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who pulls influences from the sixties LA rock scene and vintage country music. He also has a foundation in jazz & blues which paints a colorful palette for this California Coastal Cowboy. \n \nOriginally from the green rolling hills of Lancaster County\, Pennsylvania\, Maya de Vitry is a Nashville-based fiddler-turned-songwriter with a voice that glides effortlessly between tenderness and strength. After a formative chapter of singing and songwriting with roots trio The Stray Birds (five recordings in eight years)\, she launched her solo career with her 2019 album Adaptations\, earning praise from Rolling Stone Country\, NPR Music\, and No Depression. Since then\, she has released three more full-length albums—How to Break a Fall (2020)\, Violet Light (2022)\, and The Only Moment (2024); an EP\, Infinite (2023); and multiple singles\, all of which are testaments to her personal reinvention and creative growth. \nEnergized by the spontaneity of live performance and a revelatory pursuit of truth in her lyric writing\, Maya de Vitry returns with her fifth full-length album\, All My Faith. Prioritizing presence and grit over studio polish\, she sounds joyously at home in the alt-country and indie-folk realms. Recorded and mixed by 5-time Grammy Award-winning engineer Sean Sullivan and self-produced by de Vitry\, All My Faith is a buoyant gathering of songs brought to life by a cast of her closest confidantes and collaborators. All My Faith will be released on de Vitry’s own Mad Maker Studio label on July 24. \n“I’d like my music to feel like you are invited into a lush living forest or into a remote river canyon where suddenly you are stripped of not only modern conveniences but also modern distractions. Where you can feel the essence of your own humanity and those around you. Where suddenly a stranger’s story becomes interesting\, or where you might choose teamwork and problem-solving and creativity over dogma. Where reciprocity and care start to feel more natural than just about anything else\,” she reflects. \nFrom canyons to kitchens\, from cold lakes to highway truck stops\, the songs form a vibrant collage of joy\, sorrow\, and gut-wrenching honesty. Whether spinning an inspirational tale about hungover bachelorettes at the Nashville airport or exploring the prison of our own adaptations\, de Vitry brings a grounded confidence and quiet charisma rooted in her belief in the power of song to change us.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-17-bristol-coon-maya-de-vitry/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/19 — David Norcross
DESCRIPTION:David Norcross will be performing!
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-19-david-norcross/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/20 — Garrison Starr
DESCRIPTION:Garrison Starr is the quintessential musical triple-threat\, singer\, songwriter\, Grammy-nominated record producer\, and her soon-to-be-released latest full-length album\, GarrisonStarr and The Gospel Truth\, reveals her at the height of her powers.Starr calls the new collection of songs\, “Swamp Gospel Hymns for Humans\,” the nextchapter in her story of recovery and healing from her Evangelical Christian upbringing. Herprevious album\, “Girl I Used To Be\,” released during the pandemic in March 2021\, launchedher exploration of deconstruction on the path towards self-love and forgiveness. “Girl IUsed To Be” is the story of saying goodbye to what was\, and The Gospel Truth is the story ofthe journey over the bridge to freedom. \nStarr has been releasing singles from the new record over the last several months\,following a number of TV placements on Monarch\, Bull\, and most recently\, Walker:Independence\, a consistent pattern for Starr throughout her remarkable career.Starr is a celebrated singer of such remarkable reputation that music icons go out of theirway to praise her. Glen Phillips declares\, “Garrison’s voice goes straight to the gut. Shereminds you of what it means to be human.” Mary Chapin Carpenter adds\, “She just writesand sings her heart out. In the American Idolized landscape that constitutes today’s musicbusiness\, she is someone to be thankful for.”Her frequent collaborations with other artists have been both in the studio and on stage –Starr has toured with the likes of Steve Earle\, Jason Isbell\, Emmylou Harris\, BruceCockburn\, Patty Griffin\, Mindy Smith\, Glen Phillips\, and The Indigo Girls\, to name a few\,logging hundreds of thousands of touring miles across the country and around the world.Garrison was just featured as a new performer at the iconic Newport Folk Festival in 2025.The forthcoming record is called The Gospel Truth.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-20-garrison-starr/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/21 — Sam Hatmaker
DESCRIPTION:Born to a stand-up comedian and an actress\, Knoxville-raised Sam Hatmaker assumed from a very young age that everyone was just supposed to be on stage\, so she decided she would become a singer. At 10 years old\, her path became even more clear when she began performing in shows at Dollywood (even though by then she had figured out that not everyone had to be on stage). She moved to Nashville after signing her first publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music at the age of 16. In 2019 Sam recorded her debut EP with Grammy award-winning producer Nathan Chapman.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-21-sam-hatmaker/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/22 — Libby Dale / Kelly and Sarah
DESCRIPTION:Libby Dale is the solo project of Libby Weitnauer – her “rippling Smoky Mountain voice” (WMOT) and GRAMMY-award winning fiddle playing have made Dale a fixture of Nashville’s Americana\, indie\, and country scenes. October 2\, 2026\, brought her highly anticipated full-length solo debut\, Freehand. Made in three parts with producers Thomas Bryan Eaton\, Will Johnson\, and Andrija Tokic\, the project was deftly woven together by GRAMMY-award winning mixing engineer Justin Francis. Freehand explores themes of love and self-forgiveness. \nRaised in Maryville\, Tennessee\, Dale honed her point of view in Chicago and New York City before returning to the Southeast\, moving to Nashville in 2020. A winding musical path has taken her through symphonies\, fiddler’s conventions\, the Grand Ole Opry\, New York City’s Broadway theaters\, and beyond. Since landing in Music City\, Weitnauer has toured and performed with acts like Kelsey Waldon and Margo Price; and she co-founded the critically-acclaimed indie folk-rock collective Dallas Ugly\, the primary outlet for her songwriting until now.  \nThe release of Freehand marks Dale’s first venture into sketching out her own LP.  Pedal steel\, cascading vocal harmonies\, and zippy orchestral strings intertwine with Weitnauer’s confident melodic sensibilities and unmistakable voice. Combining alt-country and folk pop influences\, Freehand would feel right at home among “indie twang” Americana from the earliest days of the format. Weitnauer’s fantastic sonic dreamland might be pinpointed where the voices of Nanci Griffith and Iris DeMent meet the roots-adjacent genre agnosticism of Big Thief. Freehand is a mission statement. Libby Dale’s contemplations and existential ponderings\, lift up all who listen – and encourage each of us to loosen our grips and let go. \n \nKelly and Sarah are twin sisters and country music musicians. They have been singing and performing since childhood\, and both hold Bachelor’s degrees in Music with private training in both classical and contemporary voice.​ The Duo began their professional music careers in June 2022 and have continued to grow their presence in Nashville’s music scene. As songwriters and recording artists\, their music draws from their small hometown Illinois culture with modern country influences. \n​If you visit Nashville\, you are likely to encounter a performance by Kelly & Sarah\, twin sisters known for their signature blend of rich harmonies and engaging stage presence. From performing popular covers in Nashville’s renowned honky-tonks to showcasing original music at festivals across the Midwest\, the two-of-a-kind twin sisters provide a one-of-a-kind-show. \n​Kelly and Sarah have performed at iconic venues like The Grand Ole Opry Plaza (Nashville\, TN)\, Manchester Music Hall (Lexington\, KY)\, and 3rd and Lindsley (Nashville\, TN). They have even appeared at MLB games to perform the National Anthem. Kelly and Sarah have been performed on bills with artists including The Creekers\, Sawyer Brown\, Phil Vassar\, and Sundy Best. \n​Kelly and Sarah released the final piece of their 5 song project on June 15\, 2026. Their song “Three Sheets to the Wind” reached #28 on Music Row Charts and received a Josie Music Award for “Social Impact Song on the Year” in 2026. Their newest single\, “Cowboy on the Run” has been marked as “One to Watch” by NSAI. This is a highly selective honor\, as only one out of thousands of submissions is chosen by NSAI song evaluators! This song paints a cinematic picture that you can follow visually with its official music video on YouTube. A strong-willed dame sees right through a smooth-talking cowboy’s games and is not afraid to challenge him.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-22-libby-dale-kelly-and-sarah/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Willow Avalon — Live at the Bijou — 10/22
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nOriginally from Georgia and now based in Nashville\, Willow Avalon’s musical journey began with her first word\, “Elvis.” Raised by her mother and grandmother in a small Southern town\, she grew up playing piano in church and taught herself guitar at age 12\, using songwriting as both an escape and a means of self-expression through a life-journey that has been\nanything but straight-forward. Her much-praised 2025 debut album\, Southern Belle Raisin’ Hell\, cemented her as one of country music’s most compelling new voices\, blending classic country\, Americana\, and pop influences. She has performed at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, CBS Mornings\, and the Grand Ole Opry\, as well as festivals like Stagecoach\, C2C\, CMA\, and Lollapalooza\, bringing her electrifying presence to global audiences. With a sharp wit and rebellious spirit\, she has shared stages with legends and rising stars alike\, including Willie Nelson\, Bob Dylan\, Zach Bryan\, Cage the Elephant\, Paul Cauthen\, Charles Wesley Godwin\, and more. Solidified by sold-out headline tours in North America\, Europe\, and Australia\, as well as hundreds of millions of views across social content\, Willow Avalon is redefining what it means to be a modern Southern storyteller.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/willow-avalon-live-at-the-bijou-10-22/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate — 10/23 — Tony Hannah / Rosy Nolan
DESCRIPTION:Tony Hannah is a Country Artist for the girls who hold it all together; juggling men who act like boys\, flings that end in ghosting\, late night gigs\, and the grind of long shifts that barely cover the rent. She draws on the everywoman idols of the genre–Loretta Lynn\, Dolly Parton\, Linda Rondstadt–but updates the tropes for twenty-first century malaise. Her characters aren’t mere disgruntled housewives; Hannah croons about women who are “bringing home the bacon\, and frying it too.” \n\n\nWomen have been working overtime\,” says Tony Hannah. “From pulling double shifts to mending heartbreak after heartbreak… it feels neverending. We do it all\, alone.” A preacher’s daughter from East Tennessee\, Hannah is no stranger to hard work. It’s a work ethic that’s criss-crossed her across the country\, doing everything from farm-labor gigs in California\, to high-fashion modeling in New York City\, to every odd job in between. This duality is on full display on her debut record. With years of national touring under her belt\, opening for acts like Margo Price\, Jesse Daniel\, and Summer Dean\, Hannah is ready to do it all on “Love It Or Leave It”\, soon to be released in Spring 2026. \nProduced and recorded in Nashville\, Tennessee with Elijah Ocean at Back Cabin Sound\, the album balances slick 90’s country production (Zach Top\, The Judds) with vintage cool-girl nostalgia (Emmylou Harris\, Rosanne Cash\, Kathy Mattea) and blue collar lament (Bruce Springsteen\, Lucinda Williams). Hannah’s country-glam sensibility is supported by an all-star band; drummer Aaron Goodrich (Colter Wall\, Zach Top)\, fiddler Mary Meyer (Alison Krauss\, Molly Tuttle)\, multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Long\, and mixer Buster Allen (Garth Brooks). \nThe entire record was written by Hannah herself and a few trusted co-writers (Elijah Ocean\, Brennen Leigh\, Stefanie Joyce)\, with one special\, notable exception\, her late Uncle AJ Masters\, who penned songs for Randy Travis and Faith Hill in the 90’s. “My uncle definitely planted the seed for me to move to Nashville\, although I didn’t know it at the time\,” says Hannah. “Singing songs with him around the campfire\, I never thought I’d have the chance to record one of his in Nashville.” She lends her piercing\, soft-spoken vocals to “Old Pair of Shoes\,” a hit song he wrote for Randy Travis in 1992. She’s more than overjoyed to carry on the family tradition of songwriting and musicianship as she releases her first ever full length debut record “Love It Or Leave It”. \n \nLos Angeles country artist Rosy Nolan’s latest album\, Main Attraction\, is steeped in Americana roots\, Western swing\, honky tonk\, and old-time country\, paying homage to the great American records of the 1920s–1940s. The album is drenched in heartache and longing – core themes that have defined Nolan’s songwriting throughout her career. \nDesigned to take the listener on an emotional journey\, Main Attraction kicks off with lively\, toe-tapping tracks perfect for a two-step\, then slowly descends into haunting ballads that’ll shatter your heart. It’s a record that lifts you up\, breaks you down\, and ultimately reminds you that you’re not alone. It’s the perfect album for anyone seeking comfort in trying times.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-big-plate-10-23-tony-hannah-rosy-nolan/
LOCATION:Barley’s\,  200 East Jackson Avenue\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37915\, United States
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/24 — Holler & Crow
DESCRIPTION:Holler & Crow is a whimsical folk band based in Asheville\, NC. Bringing together traditional Celtic and Appalachian music\, thoughtful originals and delightful modern covers\, this is the heart of the jaunty\, genre-bending sound they call “Crowified.” Formed in 2018 by Lark Frazier\, they are uniquely femalefronted traditional project\, that includes guitar\, violin\, viola\, accordion\, banjo\, bouzouki\, penny whistle\, and stand up bass. Their debut album\, Echoes came out September 2026 and was supported by ArtsAVL\, Bank of America\, and the North Carolina Arts Council\, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Whether in a crowded late-night pub\, a festival with 20k+ in attendance\, or over the internet\, it is Holler & Crow’s absolute delight to adapt traditional music for non-traditional ears.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-24-holler-crow/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick Shoulders: Apocalypse\, Never! Tour — Live at the Bijou — 10/24
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nRefugia Blues\, the fifth album from Nick Shoulders\, is a record of big ideas and small\, intimate moments. \nThese nine songs are rooted in the stylings of Southern traditional music. Sparse\, timeless\, and unamplified\, they’re older than the sounds Shoulders saluted on albums like 2023’s All Bad\, with its loud\, whooping anthems for roadhouses and sweaty dancehalls. Here\, Shoulders isn’t shouting over a band. He isn’t bringing a crowd to its feet with dance-ready tempos. Rather\, he’s exploring another side of his craft by stepping up to a ribbon microphone as a solo performer\, delivering each song with acoustic instruments and a voice that’s equal parts country croon\, Appalachian yodel\, and high-lonesome field holler. As he explains it\, Refugia Blues isn’t just a call to action; it’s a call to rest\, too. \n“This is my Nebraska\,” he says\, nodding to Bruce Springsteen’s lo-fi acoustic record from 1982. “Some people listen to Bruce for the E Street Band and the big radio hits\, but I like the intimacy and rawness of Nebraska instead. I’d like to think of Refugia Blues as a little window into the heart\, as opposed to the drumbeat of a revolution.” \nEven so\, Refugia Blues resolutely pushes for change. Shoulders’ interpretation of American roots music has always been more progressive and punky than the trucks-and-beers conservatism that passes for modern-day country\, and he isn’t checking his activism at the door anytime soon. Refugia Blues does dive into personal territory\, from “Bored Fightin'” (a self-effacing look at Shoulders’ reputation as a left-of-center radical) to the heart-on-sleeve love song “Tatum Spring\,” but it balances the micro with the macro\, too. Topics like climate collapse\, radical anthropology\, generative disruption\, and southern identity run throughout the record\, adding weight to Shoulders’ melodies\, balancing his witty humor with topical weight. The purpose\, he says\, is to utilize his music as “a Trojan Horse that can be accepted by people who don’t hear anything to challenge their sense of comfort and superiority. That’s always been the goal — to say what needs to be said\, but to intersperse it with joy\, humor\, and melody.” \nIt’s a balance that Shoulders has struck in the past\, but never so nakedly alone as he does on the opening track\, “Apocalypse Never.” He wrote the a cappella ballad in the front seat of his band’s shuttle bus\, taking a hard look at each passing town\, noting all the “individualized apocalypses” — houseless encampments\, impoverished communities\, barren cornfields — that unfolded on the other side of the windshield. “Our world has been through countless apocalypses\,” he says. “The refusal to give in to the direness of our circumstances\, while still acknowledging it\, is key to surviving this moment in our history.” \nFor Shoulders\, singing isn’t just a passion; it’s practically a birthright. Born to a musical family with deep roots in Arkansas\, Appalachia\, and Louisiana\, he grew up listening to old-world folk music\, black gospel\, and other sounds that existed long before genres were even invented. “My vocal style is rooted as much in growing up in mountainous Arkansas and having to shout across vast distances to greet my neighbors as it is in my family’s very old way of singing\,” he says. “The way I sing is older than capitalism. Being part of this tradition isn’t meant to be regressive; it’s meant to be liberating. There were time before cash registers and factories\, where people sang like this when they sowed their corn\, and I’m trying to embody that.” \nRefugia Blues was recorded in a home studio outside of Fayetteville\, Arkansas. Tracked to analog tape in two inspired days and laced with light touches of guitar\, banjo\, and fiddle\, the album explores the slower\, softer textures of Shoulders’ music without pulling any punches. On his bare-boned cover of Randy Travis’ “Diggin’ Up Bones\,” he slows down the uptempo classic to a warbling waltz. On “Deux Hurry\,” he taps into his inner Roger Miller\, using wordplay to make light of the darkness that lives within all of us. On “Hill Folk\,” he nods sympathetically to the southerners who’ve witnessed their cultural inheritance become commodified and commercialized over the past half-century. And on the brave\, bold “Dixie Be Damned\,” he sings about “manifest destitution” and the sickness of contemporary American consciousness\, packaging everything into a three-and-a-half minute country gem that’s as tuneful as it is topical. \nBy bridging the gap between past and present\, Shoulders speaks pointedly and poetically about today’s problems\, even as he nods to styles that existed long before the 21st century. “When you listen to the origins of country music in the ’20s and ’30s\, you’re hearing the voice of southern rural dissent against coal companies\, repression\, and depression\,” he says. “The old ballad singers of the Ozarks were conduits for current events\, documenting not only their own lives\, but also dispossession and economic strife on a much bigger scale. Being part of that great stream of rural protest music is something I’m trying to tap into. I want to say things that feel timeless\, deep\, and rooted\, but also touch on topics like endless war and a government collapsing into dictatorship. I want to be part of that tradition of dissent.” \nAt once academic and accessible\, Refugia Blues isn’t just a deep dive into southernness\, but also into Shoulders himself. Released during an era of big-budget country-pop smashes\, it stands tall as something else entirely: a raw\, resolute version of American country music\, punctuated with humor and heavy insights\, stacked high with songs that go down easy but linger in the minds of those willing to invest the time.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/nick-shoulders-apocalypse-never-tour-live-at-the-bijou-10-24/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:Scruffy Roots Fest — Kern's Food Hall — 10/25
DESCRIPTION:Scruffy Roots Fest at Kern’s! Sunday\, October 25th from 1-7:30 PM\, it’s a free celebration of East Tennessee Americana music. Gates open at noon\, music starts at 1 PM. \nThis year’s lineup features: \n1p-1:45 – Texas Tony & the Tornado Ramblers\n2p-2:45p – Free Rein Bluegrass\n3p-3:45p – Lazarus Lake\n4p-4:45p – EmiSunshine\n5p-6p – Yer Flowers\n6:15-7:30 – Big Pink\nVendors\, food\, and beverages will be on site. Bring a lawn chair and come hang out for the day!
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/scruffy-roots-fest-kerns-food-hall-10-11/
LOCATION:Kerns Food Hall\, 2201 Kerns Rising Way\, Knoxville\, 37920\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Free Live Show,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band — Mill & Mine — 10/25
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrounded in a season of life that has been earned rather than borrowed\, Benjamin Tod speaks with the ease of someone no longer running from himself. There is joy now – a steadiness that comes from commitment. With the recent arrival of his son and a deep well of new music on the horizon\, Tod is firmly rooted in both purpose and possibility. That clarity is evident in Vengeance and Grace\, the frontman’s forthcoming and most expansive solo album to date. Conceived as a “dual-version” release\, the project presents two parallel worlds: (Alone) is a stripped solo-acoustic version\, along with its full band counterpart. Together\, the two versions form the full range of what Tod is capable of: restraint on one side\, force on the other. \nAt the core of Tod’s writing is a simple conviction: music should serve something larger than the moment. His writing speaks to mind\, body\, and soul\, shaped by faith\, discipline\, and a hard-earned understanding of consequence. The darkness that once defined him is neither denied nor indulged. It is understood and no longer in control. Today\, Tod moves with a sense of calm that wasn’t always there. He is grateful\, settled\, and intentional\, continuing to follow the compass that’s guided him from the beginning. Rooted in traditional country and folk\, his work stands firmly in the modern music landscape\, shaped by experience\, restraint\, and the life he’s built around it.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/benjamin-tod-lost-dog-street-band-mill-mine-10-25/
LOCATION:Mill & Mine\, 227 W Depot Ave\, Knoxville\, 37917\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/26 — Tyler Garrett
DESCRIPTION:Tyler Garrett is a rising country music star whose unique sound and undeniable passion are quickly making him an artist to watch. Originally from Florida\, Tyler now proudly calls Kentucky home—a place that has become an important part of his musical journey. \nTyler’s love for music began at a young age. At just 7 years old\, he picked up the drums and began developing his natural rhythm and passion for performing. By 13\, he had moved on to the guitar\, opening the door to a lifelong journey of songwriting\, performing\, and creating music that connects with people. \nDrawing inspiration from a wide range of artists\, including legends and modern favorites like Kid Rock and Riley Green\, Tyler has developed a sound that is uniquely his own. His music blends blues\, country\, southern rock\, and soul into a smooth\, soulful sound that keeps fans coming back for more. \nWith multiple sold-out shows already under his belt and new music being released regularly\, Tyler Garrett is building momentum with every performance and every song. His authenticity\, passion\, and unmistakable sound are helping him carve out his own place in the country music scene.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-26-tyler-garrett/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/27 — Rivière
DESCRIPTION:Rivière: Jazz/Fusion/Neo-Soul
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-27-riviere/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/28 — The Bootstrap Boys
DESCRIPTION:The Bootstrap Boys: Pure Michigan Honky Tonk Music
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-28-the-bootstrap-boys/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:The Red Clay Strays — Food City Center — 10/28
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \nOne of the industry’s fastest-rising bands\, The Red Clay Strays formed in Mobile\, Alabama in 2016 and are composed of Brandon Coleman (lead vocals\, guitar)\, Drew Nix (guitar and vocals)\, Zach Rishel (guitar)\, Andrew Bishop (bass)\, and John Hall (drums). Known for their blend of outlaw country\, gospel-soul\, and Southern rock\, The Red Clay Strays self-released their debut album\, Moment of Truth\, in 2022\, which featured breakout single “Wondering Why.” The song reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart\, Top 20 of the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart\, and entered the Billboard Hot 100. Shortly after\, the band took home the award for Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards. In 2024\, The Red Clay Strays signed to RCA Records and released their major label debut\, Made by These Moments\, that same year. Produced by Grammy winner Dave Cobb\, the album marked the band’s first entry on the Billboard 200 and debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart\, earning them their first Billboard Music Award for Top Country Duo/Group and the 2025 ACM Award for New Duo or Group of the Year. The Red Clay Strays also won the 2025 trophy for Vocal Group of the Year at the CMA Awards and took home the ACM Award for Group of the Year in 2026. Their third studio album Grateful\, released in June 2026\, was once again produced by Cobb and debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. In addition to performances at festivals like Lollapalooza and CMA Fest\, The Red Clay Strays have completed multiple headlining tours\, and sold out Madison Square Garden earlier this year. The band are touring throughout 2026 in support of Grateful\, and will perform two headlining shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena in October 2026.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-red-clay-strays-food-city-center-10-28/
LOCATION:Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center\, 1600 Phillip Fulmer Way #202\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37996
CATEGORIES:Featured Events
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SUMMARY:Indigo Girls — Tennessee Theatre — 10/28
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nAcross four decades\, 16 studio albums\, and over 15 million records sold\, Indigo Girls continue to blaze the trail for generations of Queer artists in the mainstream. The Grammy-winning duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray began their career in clubs and bars around their native Atlanta\, GA amidst a blossoming alternative music scene before signing to Epic Records in 1988. Indigo Girls’ eponymous major label debut sold over two million copies under the power of singles “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears” and introduced the duo’s signature harmonies and stirring\, sophisticated songs to a dedicated\, enduring global audience. Indigo Girls was the first of six consecutive Gold and/or Platinum-certified albums. Their latest record\, Look Long\, is a heartfelt and eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/indigo-girls-tennessee-theatre-10-28/
LOCATION:Tennessee Theatre\, 604 S Gay St\, Knoxville\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/29 — Muriel Anderson / The Arcadian Wild
DESCRIPTION:Muriel Anderson is renowned for her expertise on the 20-string harp-guitar\, yet it is her gentle sense of humor and uplifting melodies that leave her audience smiling. Guitar Player Magazine lists her as one of the 50 noteworthy guitarists of all time. She has been listed among the top ten female guitarists\, and is the first woman to win the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. \nShe has recorded with country legend Chet Atkins\, performed with Les Paul and countless other greats in Muriel Anderson’s ALL STAR GUITAR NIGHT® over 30+ years. Muriel’s CD Nightlight Daylight placed first in its category in 11 national awards\, followed by Acoustic Chef\, an international CD with cookbook. For her recent release Sailing Dreams\, she has created a board game to accompany the music. Her open-heartedness extends beyond her music\, as she founded the Music for Life Alliance to help foster music education for kids and donates a portion of Acoustic Chef sales to World Central Kitchen. \nMuriel Anderson takes you on a journey through many countries with her 20-string harp-guitar enhanced by a backdrop of visuals by Bryan Allen\, artfully projected onto a screen behind her. At many shows\, the audience is handed “guitar passport books” to request what countries they’d like to visit in the music and visuals. Her compositions capture the essence of authentic traditional music\, and she sings in up to 10 languages. You’ll travel with her on her sailing adventures\, and virtually (sometimes actually) taste the experiences that led to her release “Acoustic Chef.” If you’re not already familiar with Muriel\, you will find yourself smiling when you feel the joy of her music shining through a stunning array of styles. \n \nWelcome. It’s a word The Arcadian Wild hold dear\, an invitation to be present\, to let your guard down\, to share in something deep and divine and communal. \n“No matter who you are or where you come from\, that word just makes you breathe a little easier\,” says guitarist/singer Isaac Horn. “When you feel welcome somewhere\, you can be yourself\, you can be open to whatever the space and the moment have to offer. That’s how we want people to experience these songs.” \nWritten and recorded in The Arcadian Wild’s hometown of Nashville\, TN\, Welcome marks the start of a captivating new chapter for the genre-bending trio\, whose innovative use of vocal harmony and counterpoint has helped redefine the possibilities of modern string band music. Fresh off a series of critically acclaimed singles and EPs\, the album is both delicately beautiful and boldly adventurous\, drawing on everything from country and classical to pop and choral music with lush\, cinematic arrangements that balance the intellectual and the emotional in equal measure. \n“Harmony has been at the center of our musical experience and expression from the very beginning\,” says mandolinist/singer Lincoln Mick. “Often\, when we’re unsure of what to do next\, we’ll say\, ‘Let’s just all sing together.’ We’ve changed a lot as a band over the years\, but harmony has always been the backbone of what we do\, which has led us to create all thesebackground vocals that not only support the lead\, but have a life and character of their own.” \nThough the group tours and records without a drummer\, the songs here are deeply rooted in rhythmic propulsion\, with tracks driven by intricately interlocking instrumental and vocal parts that cohere into a deceptively effortless whole. \n“When we’re working on arrangements\, we actually try to treat our band like a drum set\,” explains Horn. “Who’s the kick? Who’s the snare? Who’s the crash? Everyone has a specific role that comes together intentionally to form something that should ultimately feel very natural and conversational.” \nLyrically\, the album functions in much the same way. There’s a rawness to the writing on Welcome that belies its careful craftsmanship\, a deliberate embrace of candor and simplicity that cuts straight to the heart of things like never before. The result is perhaps the most arresting collection yet from a band known for its ability to stop listeners dead in their tracks\, an exquisite celebration of community\, connection\, and the power of belonging that feels tailor-made for these challenging times. \n“For me\, the purpose of writing songs has always been to forge those connections\,” Mick reflects. “Any time we take the stage\, there’s a room full of people who all converged on that show from different backgrounds and with different stories\, and we want to make sure they all know they have a place there with us.” \nThat sense of hospitality has been central to The Arcadian Wild’s story from its earliest days. Named for a utopian landscape in Greek mythology\, the group got its start roughly a decade ago\, when Horn and Mick met as choir students at Nashville’s Lipscomb University. While both had grown up on alt-rock and punk\, they quickly bonded over a shared love for American roots music and the endless possibilities that lay beyond the boundaries of tradition and expectation. The band cut their teeth playing house shows\, where they learned to treat their audience like family\, and released their self-titled debut to widespread praise in 2015\, racking up nearly 50 million streams on Spotify alone. Heavy touring followed with what Horn and Mick have described as a revolving door of supporting players\, and the group returned in 2019 with a second full-length LP\, Finch In The Pantry\, which debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart. In January 2020\, Horn and Mick welcomed fiddler Bailey Warren into the band full-time\, but when the pandemic forced the trio off the road shortly after\, they shifted their focus to composing and recording a multi-movement song cycle that resulted in the 2021 EP Principum\, which reached#3 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart and helped earn the band performances everywhere from the Woody Guthrie Center to the Ryman Auditorium. \n“Having such a long break from touring gave me a chance to stretch myself as a writer and really chase down every single idea I had\, no matter how crazy it seemed\,” Horn reflects. “At the time\, the only people I had around me were my family and my closest friends\, the people who had been there for me from the very beginning\, and I think that started seeping into the songs whether I was aware of it or not.” \nWhile Horn embraced the chance to slow down\, Mick found himself itching to get back on the road\, and his writing often reflected his longing for the catharsis of the stage. \n“I found myself imagining what it would feel like to be in front of an audience again\, to have a room full of people singing along with us\,” he explains. “Once we got back on the road\, it really reinvigorated us to take on a bigger project like this and tackle the grander musical narrative that comes with a full-length album.” \nWorking with engineer Logan Matheny (Colony House\, Hiss Golden Messenger) and mixer Shani Gandhi (Sarah Jarosz\, Sierra Hull)\, the band approached the recording sessions for Welcome as live as possible\, embracing the organic feel of their concerts with the help of double bassist Erik Coveney (Sierra Hull\, Dave Barnes)\, who joined them on the studio floor. \n“We could have all gone in one at a time and tracked each instrument separately and made it all technically ‘perfect\,’” says Horn\, “but I don’t think that’s why people listen to us. They want to hear the human element\, the sound of people making music in a room together\, the energy you can only get from artists collaborating and feeding off of each other in real time.” \nThat collaborative energy is the heart and soul of Welcome\, which builds from a pensive meditation into an ecstatic fireworks display on buoyant opener “Lara.” Inspired by a friend who reached out seekingencouragement for their daughter\, the track is a soaring testament to believing in yourself and embracing the things that make you unique\, even when others may try to tear you down. “Lara\, don’t you let ‘em get your head down\,” Horn and Mick sing in airtight harmony. “You’re carrying the fire\, don’t forget now.” Such resilience and faith—both in yourself and in the people you love—is a recurring theme on the record. The dreamy “Big Sky\, MT” paints a portrait of a couple whose relationship nourishes themselves and their land\, while the delicate “Corner” celebrates the family figures—biological or chosen—who always have your back\, and the poignant “Shoulders” offers its thanks to the ones who lift us up and show us the way. \n“I was thinking about my dad when I wrote that song\,” says Mick\, “but ‘Shoulders’ is really an expression of gratitude for whoever fills that ‘father’ space in your life. Fred Rogers used to say that all of us have special people who have loved us into being\, and I think it’s worth honoring them.” \nFor all its hope and optimism\, Welcome wrestles with its fair share of struggle and doubt\, too. The punchy “Dopamine” confronts the insidious ways that smartphones and social media have hijacked our brains\, while the aching “Sparrow” contemplates how good intentions can lead to disastrous outcomes\, and the urgent “Fable Of The Times” reckons with a world in which everyone has isolated themselves in their own realities. Mick and Horn refuse to throw their hands up in defeat\, though\, even in the darkest of moments\, insisting that the antidote is and always has been the simple power of human connection. \n“After our shows\, we’ll meet these people who come from totally different worlds and likely wouldn’t agree on some pretty fundamental things\,” says Horn. “But for a couple hours\, they shared an experience together\, and we want our music to invite people to do that\, to be a little gentler with each other\, to see that they may have more in common than they realize and that the things that make them different are gifts. When you approach the world with an open heart like that\, anything’s possible.” \nIt’s a notion the band likes to remind their audience of every night when they take the stage\, step up to the microphone\, and say that magical word: Welcome.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-29-muriel-anderson-the-arcadian-wild/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate — 10/30 — Sebastien Bordeaux
DESCRIPTION:Sebastien Bordeaux is an American Roots musician based out of Nashville\, Tennessee. There he plays 2 weekly residency shows at the world esteemed home of country and traditional music\, Robert’s Western World\, on lower Broadway w/ the Chris Casello Combo. Sebastien is known as a strikingly androgynous sounding singer\, a deeply methodical and thought provoking song-writer and a multi-instrumentalist whom plays acoustic guitar\, lead guitar\, upright bass\, tenor banjo\, trumpet\, trombone\, piano\, drums and many more. Honing his unique soprano style voice\, he does justice to the vocal tones of many artists like Hank Williams\, Johnny Horton\, Buddy Holly\, Patsy Cline\, Willie Nelson and Elvis Presley. Many people have been noted saying\, “Sebastien’s voice takes me back to when i was a kid listening to old hillbilly music and blues records.”
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-big-plate-10-30-sebastien-bordeaux/
LOCATION:Barley’s\,  200 East Jackson Avenue\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Free Live Show,The Big Plate
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 10/31 — UT Appalachian Strings
DESCRIPTION:UT Appalachian Strings: A University of Tennessee Student Ensemble made up of several bands playing bluegrass and other Americana music.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-10-31-ut-appalachian-strings/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 11/2 — Reed Turchi / James Tristan Redding
DESCRIPTION:Reed Turchi is a musician\, poet\, and producer from Swannanoa\, North Carolina\, now living in Brooklyn. \nHis new album Road Ends in Water will be released on Gitcha Records 10.9.26 \nDancing With Poets\, selected by Victoria Chang for the 2026 Colorado Prize for Poetry\, will be published 11.15.2026. \nTurchi has won a GRAMMY Award and received an EMMY Nomination\, and has been featured in Rolling Stone\, American Songwriter\, No Depression\, The Oxford American\, Living Blues\, and many more. \nHis poetry has been published in POETRY\, The American Poetry Review\, Narrative Magazine\, and The Los Angeles Review\, among others. He earned his MFA from Warren Wilson College\, where he was awarded the Ellen Bryant Voigt Scholarship. \nTurchi is the co-editor of The Swannanoa Review. \n \nJames Tristan Redding is a British-American songwriter\, author\, narrator\, and multi-instrumentalist. James has written over a thousand songs\, released 12 studio albums\, served as a session musician on drums\, bass\, guitar\, and keys for groups in the USA and Europe\, and had his songs recorded by Sarah Harralson\, Dan Whitehouse\, Eli Alger\, David Easterling\, and Emma Gale\, among others. \nRedding has written or shared the stage with Rodney Crowell\, Chris Gantry\, Victor DeLorenzo of Violent Femmes\, Jim Lauderdale\, Jelly Roll\, John Lomax III\, Susan Cowsill & The Cowsills\, James Hall & Pleasure Club\, John Sieger\, Peter Mulvey\, Bartley Pursley\, Mark Narmore\, Rob Stanley\, Steve Dean\, Elliott Park\, Kent Blazy\, Cadillac Bob Homles\, Janis & Rick Carnes\, Tom Ghent\, Milton Blackford\, Davis Raines\, Pete & Pat Luboff\, Hannah Fairlight\, Thayer Sarrano\, Cary Hudson & Blue Mountain\, Mosquitos\, Drums & Tuba\, Mike Hoffmann of EIEIO & Carnival Strippers\, The Why Store\, Buddahead\, Ophira Eisenberg\, Subhah Agarwal\, Kevin Avery\, W. Kamau Bell\, and Hari Kondabolu\, among others.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-11-2-reed-turchi-james-tristan-redding/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bruce Cockburn w/ Livingston Taylor — Live at the Bijou — 11/2
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nABOUT LIVINGSTON TAYLOR: \nLivingston Taylor’s career as a professional musician spans more than five decades\, encompassing performance\, songwriting\, recording\, and teaching. Often described as equal parts Mark Twain\, college professor\, and musical icon\, Livingston maintains an active touring schedule of over 100 shows a year\, delighting audiences with his wit\, warmth\, and an expansive repertoire drawn from more than 25 albums\, along with beloved classics. \nAs a songwriter\, Livingston has penned Top-40 hits recorded by his brother James Taylor\, and over the years has shared the stage with artists such as Joni Mitchell\, Linda Ronstadt\, Fleetwood Mac\, and Jimmy Buffett. Equally at home across genres—folk\, pop\, classical\, gospel\, and jazz—his performances range from upbeat storytelling and intimate ballads to full orchestral concerts\, all delivered with his trademark ease and connection. \nFor over three decades\, alongside his performing career\, Livingston served as a full professor at Berklee College of Music\, where he created and taught the acclaimed course Stage Performance. His former students include Charlie Puth\, John Mayer\, Susan Tedeschi\, Molly Tuttle\, Liz Longley\, and Gavin DeGraw. Today\, Livingston takes this course “on the road\,” teaching at colleges and institutions nationwide\, including the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami\, NASA’s Goddard Space Center\, and Tulane Law School. His book\, Stage Performance\, drawn from the course and more than 50 years (5\,000+ hours) of real-world stage experience\, has become a go-to resource for performers and presenters seeking to elevate their craft from good to truly professional. \nAn airplane-flying\, motorcycle-riding\, singing storyteller\, Livingston Taylor continues to captivate audiences wherever he performs—whether solo\, with a band\, or in front of an orchestra—bringing heart\, humor\, and humanity to every stage. \nABOUT BRUCE COCKBURN: \nO Sun O Moon \n“Time takes its toll\, but in my soul I’m on a roll\,” Bruce Cockburn sings on his latest studio album\, O Sun O Moon. Smart and catchy\, it’s the kind of memorable line—like “gotta kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight” from his classic song “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”—the world has become used to hearing from Cockburn. \nAn inspired poet and exceptional guitarist\, the award-winning artist has spent his entire career kicking at the darkness with songs that tackle topics from politics and human rights to the environment and spirituality. And he’s not letting up. While other singer-songwriters his age are slowing down\, Cockburn\, on the eve of his 78 th birthday\, has released a dozen new compositions as powerful as any he’s written. You could even say his songwriting is on a roll as well. \nExquisitely recorded in Nashville with his longtime producer\, Colin Linden\, O Sun O Moon exudes a newfound simplicity and clarity\, as Cockburn focuses on more spiritual than topical concerns this time around\, looking back and taking stock. “I think it’s a product of age to a certain extent\,” he explains\, “and seeing the approaching horizon.” Then\, lightening the tone\, he adds with a laugh: “I think these are exactly the kind of songs that an old guy writes.” \nOld or not\, Cockburn exhibits a palpable urgency on the opening “On a Roll\,” playing a driving resonator guitar with all the vigor of his veteran blues heroes. Similarly “To Keep the World We Know\,” one of the album’s few explicitly topical numbers\, bristles with Cockburn’s buzzing dulcimer as he and Inuk music star Susan Aglukark\, with whom he co-wrote the song\, sing about the growing threat of global warming. \nStill\, most of the songs strike gentler tones\, from the jazz sway of “Push Come to Shove” and the folky drone of “Into the Now” to the string-laden “Us All” and the hymn-like “Colin Went Down to the Water.” The latter\, one of several songs Cockburn wrote while on a month-long holiday with family on the Hawaiian island of Maui\, describes the drowning of a friend. “It’s not about Colin Linden\,” Cockburn is quick to point out\, “but someone I knew from San Francisco who’d \nmoved to Maui. It was tragic and quite surreal because I got a voicemail message from him when I was in Maui\, saying ‘Welcome to paradise\,’ and then found out afterward that he’d died.” \nSpeaking of surreal\, another song written while in Maui\, the whimsical “King of the Bolero\,” is unlike anything else on the album. Over a woozy clarinet and drunken\, New Orleans-style horns\, Cockburn paints a cartoon portrait of an oversized barroom musician “with a double chin all the way round his neck and a pot belly in the back.” Is it a dream or a figment of his imagination? In a gravelly voice\, Cockburn leaves us guessing as he sings “it’s moon high noon—I’m not in my Bed.” \n“The people I was with in Maui were quite perplexed when they heard that song\,” muses Cockburn. “After hearing the other things I’d written there\, they wondered ‘where did that come from?’ It really came from out of the blue. I remembered when I was in high school one of my friends made a crack about an old blues singer who used to come through who he said had a double chin in the back. It was a funny thing to hear at the time and it stayed with me. I didn’t want to make it specifically about a black blues guy\, so I mention Minnesota Fats and Fatty Arbuckle as well as Fats Domino and Fats Waller.” \nAs with so many Cockburn albums\, the musicianship on O Sun O Moon is superb. Along with usual suspects Linden on guitar\, Janice Powers on keyboards and Gary Craig on drums\, the album features bassist Viktor Krauss\, drummer Chris Brown\, accordionist Jeff Taylor\, violinist Jenny Scheinman and multi-instrumentalist Jim Hoke. And Cockburn’s guest vocalists include Shawn Colvin\, Buddy Miller as well as mellifluous singers Allison Russell\, Sarah Jarosz and Ann and Regina McCrary\, daughters of gospel great Rev. Samuel McCrary\, one of the founders of the Fairfield Four. The McCrary sisters shine brightest on the title track\, whose full name is “O Sun By Day O Moon By Night.” They sing the euphoric chorus of the song which relates\, during spoken verses\, a dream Cockburn had in which he makes the journey to heaven. “In the dream\, which was really powerful\,” says Cockburn\, “I see myself silhouetted on a ridge with this jar of blood pouring it on the soil. It wasn’t scary or disturbing at all.” Cockburn adds that he wrote the line “and if that sun and moon don’t shine” in the spirit of songs from the folk ballad “Mockingbird” to the blues number “Bo Diddley.” \nThe album’s jazzy closer\, “When You Arrive\,” finds Cockburn confessing to feeling his age when he sings “You’re limping like a three-legged canine\, backbone creaking like a cheap shoe.” But it’s clearly a song of acceptance\, about eventually slipping one’s mortal coil\, as he’s joined on the chorus by all of his guest vocalists\, singing “bells will ring when you arrive.” \nO Sun O Moon includes just one song without vocals\, “Haiku\,” a four-minute showcase of Cockburn’s fleet-fingered guitar work\, where his previous studio recording\, 2019’s Crowing Ignites\, was a collection of all instrumental numbers. In between those albums\, Cockburn\, the Order of Canada recipient\, 13-time Juno Award winner and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee released a 50th anniversary box set\, greatest hits package and rarities collection. \nNever one to rest on his laurels—even when\, as he notes\, “time takes its toll\,” Cockburn keeps finding and conquering new challenges\, never repeating himself in the process. “I just don’t want to ever keep doing the same thing\,” he says. “I’m grateful that I can keep on doing anything at this point\,” he adds. “My body doesn’t hold up and perform the way it once did.” \nThat may be so. But the legendary musician has just made his 38th studio album. And it may stand as one of his best of his long and storied career.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/bruce-cockburn-w-livingston-taylor-live-at-the-bijou-11-2/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 11/3 — Mike Jones
DESCRIPTION:Mike’s musical journey began at the age of 12 with a Ramones mix tape and a Harmony acoustic guitar. Self-taught\, left-handed Mike Jones restrung his right-handed Harmony\, and never looked back.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-11-3-mike-jones/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 11/4 — Joelton Mayfield / Arlo Finch
DESCRIPTION:By the winter of 2021\, Joelton Mayfield had done nearly a decade of work to prepare his debut LP\, Crowd Pleaser. As a teenager\, he’d toiled for years as the music director of his Texas church\, despite extreme doubts about Christianity’s role in his life and his role in Christian life. He’d then shipped off to Nashville\, hoping to earn a music business degree in the city where they seem to be factory-made. He’d instead switched to English\, studied the more mature songwriters around him\, joined a series of college bands\, and drifted into the edges of the city’s indie rock and alt-country enclaves\, building a patchwork of players he trusted. \nAnd that February\, he’d driven two trailers and several carloads of gear to a farm near Alabama’s Mobile Bay\, turning the family barn of a bandmate friend into an ad hoc studio. He’d trucked a Hammond organ from Nashville and his grandmother’s century-old vibraphone from Texas\, even buying a stack of area rugs to absorb the sound bouncing from the barn’s concrete floors. And then\, just days before Mayfield was set to make his first full-length testimonial\, the love of his young life–and the person set to co-produce the album\, no less–dumped him. \nThe three weeks that followed were among the best and worst times of his life. Mayfield substituted a pack of cigarettes a day and too much booze for sleep\, teetering on the edge of a breakdown. He was moody\, distraught\, and distracted\, caught in a nightmare. But this was also his dream\, being surrounded by musical friends from Texas and Nashville in a barn-turned-studio that was more practical and interesting than he could have imagined\, singing songs about trauma and hypocrisy and pain and disappointment that had\, in a very real way\, already saved his life. \nSo Mayfield and a band that sometimes numbered nearly a dozen rendered these 10 songs with radical urgency\, the bummer feelings that had first led to them reanimated by sudden rejection. Mayfield clung to his own words\, like a life preserver or guardrail or any piece of art that simply reminds someone that this world can always change for worse but especially better. Indebted to traditions of incisive Southern storytellers and country-rock bands interested in upending their forms\, Crowd Pleaser squares up to the difficulties and betrayals of Mayfield’s first quarter-century and makes the absolute most of them–10 compelling affirmations for the rest of us. \nRaised outside of a small central Texas city\, surrounded by open farm fields and dirt roads\, Mayfield was a “miracle baby\,” the child his parents never truly expected after decades of trying. His family was religious and musical\, two disciplines forever intertwined in their lives\, both at home and at their Pentecostal church. As a kid\, Mayfield won awards in the Royal Rangers\, a conservative Boy Scouts alternative\, for his ability to recite Bible verses; as a teenager\, he began leading Wednesday night worship services for people much older than him and eventually even helming the church’s music ministry. Outside of oil-slick Contemporary Christian Music\, he heard only some classic country\, scant Texas blues\, and the Gaithers\, a family institution that was in turn a family favorite. There was no household internet\, and television was censored by a draconian device called TV Guardian. \nFissures slowly grew between Mayfield and the church\, Mayfield and family. He heard the words about treating people kindly but then saw how others who were not straight and white were handled by the so-called faithful. He felt exploited\, too\, his interest in and predisposition for music used as (largely) unpaid labor. These feelings coincided with his late discovery of songs beyond his faith. Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” exploded his idea of what a tune could accomplish\, as did a web of relatively outsider songwriters—Sufjan Stevens\, David Bazan\, Jeff Tweedy. He began writing for himself\, not only slowly finding his voice but a map of what he believed and rejected. He fled Texas for Tennessee\, intuitively knowing there was more to discover than his hometown cloister of culture. \nCrowd Pleaser documents the widening chasm between Mayfield\, the sheltered Texas kid\, and Mayfield\, the burgeoning songwriter indulging in all the music\, movies\, relationships\, books and conversations that came with leaving his sheltered early life. His sense of the bigotry\, misogyny\, and myopia he’d left behind sharpened\, too. These songs are a map of an unraveling and the concomitant reformation\, as he sorts through hypocrisies\, doubts\, and disappointments and does his best to make sense of them. Throughout Crowd Pleaser\, Mayfield returns to the line “God’s children never grow up.” It’s as if he’s finally admitting not only that he was cast out of the garden long ago but also that there may never have been a garden at all\, that you have to move along to find out. \nPenned in three sections\, the pulsing “Speechwriter” wades through the lies we slowly learn we’ve been living with\, from the way the government (no matter who has held power during the last 250 years) fronts about holding your best interests in its candid little capitalist heart to the promise of privilege that can still leave one rotten to the core. “How can I convince you anything I’ve ever felt is worth grieving?” he asks in one stinging line. That same unease permeates “The Shore\,” where everything we think we know and love seems only like a cover for a collapse that will happen any minute. “Is this the future we always dreamed of?” Mayfield sings\, his voice and the band behind him so calm and cool that they seem to be teasing us for the devastation we have yet to detect. \nThe woes\, mind you\, aren’t all so existential. If you hear some familiar lines in “Turpentine (You Know the One)\,” yes\, Mayfield borrowed bits from Wilco and the Mountain Goats on one of the oldest songs included here\, meant to illuminate both the perpetual failures of the music industry but also the miraculous way people keep making and sharing songs\, anyway\, because they remain so very powerful and potentially resonant. Wilco’s Late Greats failed\, as did the Mountain Goats’ Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton. Instead\, in Mayfield’s vision\, we get stuck with the bullshit band on Spirit 105.9 that is “everything you hate about everything you wish you liked.” And still\, we create. Cruelty comes in many forms\, including rock radio. \nMany of Crowd Pleaser’s songs scan as steadfast alt-country\, Mayfield digging into a bedrock of so-called Americana like a strata of sediment simply waiting to be discovered. As important\, though\, are the vivid signs here that he is part of a Gen Z cadre for whom Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born\, Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted\, and Neil Young’s Harvest are part of the same firmament\, not aberrations in its architecture. \nYou can hear it immediately in opener “Red Beam\,” an apocalyptic vision of every new morning where the growing sound swallows you like a blazing Southern sunrise. Cut by noise and samples and built with a nonlinear structure that allows Mayfield to wrestle with the biggest questions of our existence without pretending to have tidy conclusions\, it is a theme song for stumbling into the unknown\, blinking hard\, and moving forward\, anyway. You can hear it in “Blame\,” too\, a chronicle of being let down and left out\, even when one’s desires are as simple as “a highway exit/a checkout before 11.” Sheets of drone radiate beneath the electric surges of the chorus\, while bits of dissonant strings circle the verses like the thoughts of a brain addled by its own overdrive. And what of the rumbles beneath and glows around “Jacob Dreamed a Staircase\,” a beautiful hymn about being deserted by faith\, where the sounds sigh and moan and growl like heavenly taunts? Crowd Pleaser is only the first full statement from a singer-songwriter invested in the future of his chosen field. \nIn 2024\, a year before Crowd Pleaser was even ready for release\, Mayfield opened several shows for two heroes–John Darnielle\, of the aforementioned Mountain Goats\, and John Moreland. Both have used songwriting to stare into personal voids\, to stand at the edge of some never-ending abyss and tell the truth about what they’ve seen down there. Mayfield is a new member of that tradition\, having put some of the most difficult lessons he’s learned in life to paper and then gathering his friends to help animate them\, to turn them into these songs meant to be shared like communion. “God’s children never grow up\,” goes that refrain. Yes\, some of them just grow into something unexpected: songwriters able to relay the good news that can exist in passing through the hardest of times and emerging on another side\, able to sing about it. \n \nArlo Finch is a popular American Singer Songwriter and entertainer. Americana Blue Grass / Folk&Roll.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-11-4-joelton-mayfield/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tennessee Shines — Live at the Bijou — 11/4
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \nTennessee Shines and WDVX’s 29th Birthday Bash: “The Future of Bluegrass is NOW!” \nWednesday\, November 4\, 2026\nDoors 6:00 PM | Show 7:00 PM\nThe Bijou Theatre\, Knoxville\, TN\nReserved Seating \nJoin us for a very special night as WDVX celebrates 29 years on the air with Tennessee Shines and WDVX’s 29th Birthday Bash\, featuring four of the hottest young acts in bluegrass today: Bronwyn\, Wyatt Ellis\, Carson Peters & Iron Mountain\, and Alex Leach and band. Alex Leach will emcee and kick off the night with three brand new songs\, backed by a full band. \nThis concert also kicks off WDVX’s Fall 2026 Fundraiser\, so don’t miss your chance to celebrate 29 years of WDVX while supporting the station for years to come! \nWant early access to tickets? Sign up for our newsletter\, Holler\, for a chance at pre-sell info before tickets go on sale to the public. \nBronwyn has long been renowned as a prolific instrumentalist\, earning two IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year awards as well as a Grammy for her work with Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway. \nAs a child\, music lessons gradually transitioned into public performances\, with a particular emphasis on Irish music after her family relocated to Charlottesville\, Virginia. And her lifelong musical education continues to shape her work today. A background in dance makes her a captivating and energetic live performer. An on-stage collaboration with fellow Charlottesville native Dave Matthews taught her how a crowd could feed your energy. And attending Berklee during the early years of its American Roots Music program offered inspiration from classmates like Sierra Hull and Alex Hargreaves—as well as an introduction to Tuttle and most of Bronwyn’s Golden Highway bandmates. “My favorite bluegrass musicians today are the ones who are rooted in traditional music\, but don’t really see any boundaries\,” she says. “It’s as if they draw from a traditional bluegrass vocabulary\, but use it to say what they want to say.” \nNow\, as her own entry in bluegrass history expands from celebrated instrumentalist to bandleader and frontwoman\, Bronwyn isn’t just crafting a career in the image of genre greats like Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas; she’s bringing them along for the ride. Both Bush and Douglas are featured as players on her latest album I Built a World\, and they’re not the only of Bronwyn’s musically-inclined pals and heroes to make an appearance. \nAt just 17\, Wyatt Ellis has already built a career that would be remarkable for an artist of any age. Born in Knoxville and raised at the southern end of the Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee\, Wyatt is emerging as one of country music’s most distinctive young voices. A virtuosic mandolin and guitar player\, expressive vocalist\, and prolific songwriter\, he brings the spirit of Appalachia into a fresh\, youthful sound. \nWyatt’s connection to the mountains is more than geographical. It is where his music comes from. Raised on a family farm in the foothills of the Smokies\, he grew up picking his mandolin with the natural beauty of Thunderhead Mountain and its Rocky Top summit visible from his front porch. Vinyl records filled the house\, and the sounds\, stories\, and traditions of East Tennessee became part of his everyday life. \nWyatt began composing Appalachian instrumentals as a child and picked up the mandolin at nine years old to learn to play “Rocky Top.” By 10\, he was performing regularly on David West’s Ciderville Farm and Home show. Guided by mentors Bobby Osborne and Paul Brewster\, Wyatt developed not only into a remarkable young instrumentalist\, but into an artist deeply connected to the music that shaped him. At age 13\, he made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry and the airwaves of WIVK. \nThat foundation has carried Wyatt from those early East Tennessee stages to some of the most important stages in American roots music. Playing original mountain music on the Grand Ole Opry and major festivals including the Crossroads Guitar Festival\, Newport Folk Festival\, and Big Ears at age 13. Backed by a powerhouse band of Appalachia’s finest\, his live show puts the focus on tight mountain harmonies\, high lonesome vocals\, and blistering instrumental work\, creating a sound that is steeped in tradition while remaining unmistakably his own. \nWyatt’s rapid rise has included chart topping originals from his debut instrumental album and becoming one of the youngest regular performers in Grand Ole Opry history. His work earned him the 2024 IBMA Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year award and recognition on Billboard’s 21 Under 21 in 2026. Along the way\, he has shared music with and learned from artists who helped define American roots music\, including Bernie Leadon\, Peter Rowan\, and Marty Stuart. \nHis relationship with the late Bobby Osborne holds particular significance. Wyatt played the lead and harmony mandolin parts on Osborne’s final recording of “Rocky Top\,” while their co written instrumental “Fern Branch” was also featured on Osborne’s posthumous album. The recordings represent a remarkable passing of the torch between a legendary voice of Appalachia and a young musician carrying that tradition into the future. \nWith a debut vocal album of original songs on the way\, Wyatt is entering a new chapter\, bringing his Appalachian roots\, instrumental mastery\, and deeply personal songwriting to the forefront. At an age when most artists are just beginning to find their voice\, Wyatt Ellis is already helping shape what the next generation of authentic country music can sound like. \nCarson Peters and Iron Mountain has quickly become one of the most energetic and hottest bluegrass bands in the business\, making numerous trips to the Grand Ole Opry and multiple international appearances. Their traditional bluegrass style and a cappella arrangements are a refreshing reminder that the bluegrass of old is alive and well. The band is made up of Carson Peters (Piney Flats\, TN)\, James McDowell (Hendersonville\, NC)\, Taylor Parks (Bloxom\, VA)\, Henry Burgess (Edmond\, OK)\, and Jake Goforth (Troy\, NC). Carson and the band signed with Billy Blue Records in 2023\, and are gearing up the release of their 2nd album under the esteemed bluegrass label. The boys give God all the glory for allowing them to accomplish what they have\, and trust His plan to guide them through the future. \nMulti-instrumentalist\, singer/songwriter\, and Bluegrass DJ of 27 years\, East Tennessee’s own Alex Leach curates a sound like no other. While having an old soul and paying homage to his Appalachian roots\, Leach continues breaking new ground with every song he writes and records. “Genre and style are just words\,” says Alex\, “but music itself and humanity’s creativity behind it is what feelings actually sound like\, and my vision is to create what I am feeling and share it with the world.” \nTickets go on sale Friday\, October 2 at 10:00 AM at knoxbijou.org and the Tennessee Theatre box office. \nThanks to our sponsors: Tennessee Stone\, Old Sevier Market\, Modelo Especial\, and Corona Extra. \n 
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/tennessee-shines-live-at-the-bijou-11-4/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 11/5 — March To August
DESCRIPTION:March to August (M2A) is the Ozark Mountains-based Americana duo of Derrick and Jodi Mears. Blending Americana\, alt-country\, bluegrass\, and folk traditions\, the pair has built a reputation for vivid storytelling\, thoughtful songwriting\, and a remarkably full sound created by just two musicians. \nDerrick’s rich vocals are accompanied by banjo\, guitar\, and harmonica\, while Jodi anchors the music with bass\, stomp box percussion\, and lap steel\, creating dynamic arrangements that are both intimate and expansive. \nOn stage\, March to August draws audiences in with compelling stories\, quick-witted banter\, and the occasional delightfully random fact or piece of trivia unearthed during one of their many late-night research rabbit holes. Their performances feel as much like conversations as concerts\, leaving listeners entertained long after the final song. \nThe duo is known for crafting concept albums that weave individual songs into larger narratives. Their 2024 release\, Songs Inspired by Witness\, earned critical praise and debuted in the top 50 of the Alternative Country and Folk charts.  \nTheir fourth studio album\, Highway 75\, released in May 2026\, is an immersive blend of prose and song that follows a long-haul truck driver searching for redemption along the interstate stretching from South Florida to the Canadian border.  \nThe album debuted as one of the top 25 Folk albums\, one of the top 50 Alternative Country albums and was also considered an “Album To Watch” by the Euro Americana Charts\, further establishing the duo’s reputation for ambitious\, narrative-driven songwriting. Jeff Burger from Blogcritics.org described the album as… \n“Likely to be remembered as one of the best Folk/Americana releases of 2026” \nWhether performing in intimate listening rooms\, historic theaters\, or festival stages\, March to August connects with audiences through honest songs\, memorable stories\, and music that lingers long after the last note.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-11-5-march-to-august/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Live Show,WDVX Blue Plate Special
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SUMMARY:Hayes Carll — Live at the Bijou — 11/5
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nHayes Carll isn’t preaching or teaching. He’s not interested in telling the rest of use what to do or think. But he is charting out a personal guide for his life\, quieting the noise\, and sitting with his real voice – the one that’s candid\, consistent\, and often inconvenient. \nWe’re Only Human is Carll’s tenth album. Like his best lyrics\, it is also an understated masterpiece\, an honest snapshot of one man’s confrontation and delight with humanity’s biggest and most intimate questions. Where do we find forgiveness for ourselves and grace for others? How do we hold on to peace of mind and stay present? What can we—and should we––trust? And how can we moor ourselves to\, well\, ourselves\, in the midst of confusing\, trying times? We’re Only Human offers audiences the chance to listen to Carll as he listens to himself. \n“I’ve lived outside of myself for so long\,” Carll admits. “Distractions\, fear\, anxiety\, insecurity\, and the complexity of being human in this world have so often pulled me away from being present or at peace.” \n“I feel like there’s been a voice riding shotgun all my life\, pushing me to do better\, but I’ve struggled to listen to it\,” Carll says. “The idea behind this record was to do the personal work I needed to do\, then codify those lessons in song to serve as sort of breadcrumbs to get me back on the trail if\, and inevitably when\, I get lost again.” \nCarll is more than two decades into a celebrated career. Praise from places such as Pitchfork and the New York Times––the latter of which yoked Carll’s ability to tackle tough issues with wry humor to Bob Dylan––punctuate a resume that includes Americana Music Awards and a Grammy nomination. His songs aren’t safe\, but many of Nashville’s stars have recorded them\, including Kenny Chesney\, Lee Ann Womack\, and Brothers Osborne. As a solo recording artist\, Carll has long-since established himself as one of Americana’s most-played––and most loved––voices. His warm but crackling vocals\, wit\, and heart dance through wordplay that’s always clever\, and never too precious. Through it all\, whenever Carll points a finger\, it’s most often at himself. \nAs We’re Only Human collects moments of Carll figuring out how to be with himself\, the songs feel forthright\, hopeful\, and timely. In today’s onslaught of instant gratification\, rage-baiting headlines\, glorified intolerance\, and falling empathy\, the record is a startling outlier: an artist’s raw\, real-life effort to live well—both with himself and others. Carll embraces private epiphanies\, and shares them with the world\, allowing them to unfold for all to see and share. \nOf course\, We’re Only Human is also art. So while appreciating the motivation and compelling themes driving it will underpin the listener’s experience\, Carll’s album also matters because of the sheer brilliance of its execution. These are songs composed by a writer’s writer\, wielding his considerable skill with precision and beauty. \nThe album’s title track unfolds with plaintive piano and a mantle of grace. Carll sings\, with a calming sincerity\, “We’ll do most anything to avoid the pain / Hiding our hearts and casting the blame / 6\,000 tongues\, but we’re all the same / Ain’t no need to carry that shame / ‘Cause we’re only human.” \nHard-won minutes of quiet clarity inspired some of the record’s most beautiful moments. Accented by bright mandolin and soft\, simple percussion\, “Stay Here a While” captures a peaceful reprieve from a racing mind. “I remember sitting on the couch\, looking out the window\, watching the birds do their thing\,” Carll says with a laugh. “I got lost in their lives for a moment\, and it was such a wonderful feeling because my mind is always going in circles\, seeking excitement\, and frankly\, just thinking about myself. I enjoyed the peace I felt in that moment and I thought\, this is lovely and I’d like to stay in this place.” Carll shared that takeaway with MC Taylor\, aka Hiss Golden Messenger\, who not only could relate\, but helped finish the song. \n“High” offers another invitation to stop and breathe. Opening with a solo horn\, flute\, and stripped down piano\, the track is lovely and sincere\, with Carll’s signature humor hovering comfortably nearby. There are also times when Carll’s sharp wit comes roaring to the foreground. “Progress of Man (Bitcoin and Cattle)” sends up society’s disorienting––and conflicting––forces\, while “Good People (Thank Me)” is a masterclass in comedic timing\, stubborn humanism\, and the untapped potential of gratitude. \nA dogged insistence on acceptance\, both of one’s self and others\, courses through the album— as does Carll’s determination to hold himself accountable. “If I’m judging others\, then I’m not having to look at myself\,” Carll says. “I’m flawed as hell\, judgmental\, and critical of myself and those around me. That’s a loop that feeds itself. But I figure If I can look at myself clear-eyed and acknowledge my own shortcomings\, it might help me have some grace and acceptance for myself and others.” \nIt’s that sort of harmonious duality––embracing one’s self and confessing one’s own mistakes––that solidifies the record’s big-hearted honesty. “The creative process was in large part a self-therapy session. I don’t think that would work if I was only looking at everyone else’s issues\,” Carll says. \nA moving series of grounding vignettes\, realizations\, and self-love roll through “What I Will Be\,” as Carll promises to not compromise himself to fit in. A slow-burning\, blues-tinged standout\, “I Got Away with It” is painful and gorgeous. Brimming with hope\, “One Day” balances the work Carll sees as necessary with the certainty that satisfaction\, contentment\, and peace are reachable by trusting in yourself and the universe. \nFeaturing a parade of Carll’s longtime friends\, album closer “May I Never” is a plea to himself. As Ray Wylie Hubbard\, Shovels & Rope\, Darrell Scott\, Nicole Atkins\, and The Band of Heathens’ Gordy Quist and Ed Jurdi each take verses\, listeners are swept up in a resolute promise to keep after good. “It brings up a lot for me when I hear them singing those lines\,” Carll says. Each of those people – whether they know it or not – have played a part in my story\, and it’s gratifying and humbling to me to have them lend their voices to this song.” \nIn the end\, Carll’s latest album is a lovingly and purposefully written collection of reminders. “I hope other people find something in it\, too” Carll says. “Through it all\, I am trying to stay appreciative\, knowing that I did what I set out to do: write something that can help me navigate this journey with a little more grace and peace.”
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/hayes-carll-live-at-the-bijou-11-5/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Big Plate — 11/6 — Grey DeLisle & Eddie Clendening and The Blue Ribbon Boys
DESCRIPTION:Grey DeLisle is a Grammy – winning singer/ songwriter who is known as the most prolific voice actress in American animation history\, having performed over 1500 cartoon voices since 1996. Grey is also a comedian who launched her first stand-up comedy special\, “My First Comedy Special” which has received rave reviews. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrey’s most iconic roles include “Vicky” from “The Fairly Odd Parents\,” ‘Samantha “Sam” Manson’ from “Danny Phantom\,” ‘Mandy’ from “The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy\,” ‘Frankie Foster\,” ‘Dutchess’ and ‘Goo’ from “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends\,” ‘Yumi Yoshimura’ from “Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi\,” ‘Azula’ from “Avatar: The Last Airbender\,” ‘Kimiko Tohomiko’ from “Xiaolin Showsown\,” as well as ‘Lola\,’ ‘Lana’ and ‘Lily Loud’ from the “Loud House” and ‘Prince Puppycorn’ from “Unikitty!.” She’s also been the voice of ‘Daphne Blake’ in “Scooby-Doo” cartoons since 2000. \nHer film roles include ‘Grandma Sanchez’ in “The Book of Life\,” ‘Arcee’ in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “Bumblebee” and ‘Setsu Oiwa’ in Studio Ghibli’s final film\, “When Marnie Was There.”
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-big-plate-11-6-grey-delisle-eddie-clendening-and-the-blue-ribbon-boys/
LOCATION:Barley’s\,  200 East Jackson Avenue\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Free Live Show,The Big Plate
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SUMMARY:First Friday Live — 11/6 — Cheap Souvenirs
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 6 / 6:00 – 7:00 PMKnoxville Visitors CenterHosted by Daniel Fluitt\nFREE!\nJoin us for our next First Friday Live presenting Cheap Souvenirs!\nCheap Souvenirs formed from the serendipitous reunion of two longtime friends\, Josh Hutson and Kevin Hyfantis\, who after years of pursuing separate projects\, found themselves nerding out on music documentaries and reminiscing about their shared love of The Rolling Stones and The Band. They had been immersed in different musical worlds and hadn’t played guitars together in over a decade but when they finally did\, the sparks flew\, and they wrote their first song almost immediately. As new tracks began to accumulate\, they brought in close friends and collaborators Lauryl Brisson and Stirling Walsh to complete the lineup. The band released their debut self-titled EP in April of 2026. Multi Instrumentalist Greg Adkins later joined on keys adding a new dimension to the band’s sound. Cheap Souvenirs’ sound walks a fine line between classic rock and infectious pop\, driven by raw energy and strong hooks that have become their signature.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/first-friday-live-11-6-cheap-souvenirs/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:First Friday Live,Free Live Show
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SUMMARY:The WDVX Blue Plate Special — 11/7 — Mary Bragg / The Mendenhall Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Every great song is essentially a secret told to a stranger. \nAnd when the truth is clear\, the stranger recognizes themselves in it. \nMary Bragg understands this very well. She describes the title Secrets to Strangers as a “zoomed-out representation” of her latest release – a collection of deeply personal stories offered to the outside world. Whether those conversations happen in therapy\, from a stage\, or between strangers at an airport bar\, they’re all attempts to bridge the distance between people. \n“All these spaces are invitations to share a truth for the sake of connecting your own experience to another human being’s\,” Bragg says. \nAcross twelve songs\, she does just that – approaching memory\, longing and self-acceptance with grace and lyrical finesse. The dreamy pop of opener “Kid Flamingo” whisks that narrative back to youth\, with softness and empathy (“Wasn’t it hard enough the first time?”). The radio-ready “Hi-Fi” leans into its modern pop groove\, while wrestling with questions of self-deception. “It’s about listening to what the world is trying to tell you\, and honoring your own inner voice\,” Bragg says. “What Do I Do” is a stirring rumination on uncertainty\, and a duet with co-producer John Paul White. “It was such a thrill to sing with someone as incredibly talented as John\,” Bragg says. The vocal fireworks on “Champion Sleeper” explore deep soul connections while “B-Side” yearns for weightless nostalgia. The bossa-tinged “I Like It Here” embraces the messiness of life\, and “The Game” is a heart-wrenching dive into how we sometimes have to wear different faces to navigate interpersonal webs. \nWhile Bragg co-wrote most of the album (among her notable collaborators are Maia Sharp\, Mindy Smith and Brady Stablein of Brother Elsey)\, the gorgeous\, meditative title track was hers alone. As she sings\, “Sometimes you have to say the thing out loud and hear yourself say it\,” that could double as an encapsulation for how the album offers itself as an inviting sonic shoulder to lean on. \n“So much of this record is about giving yourself permission to enter a day and not have the answers to all your problems\,” Bragg says. “But at least saying\, ‘These are my problems.’ Being real with yourself about how hard this life is\, because a million things get thrown at you and you don’t always know what to do about them.” \nBragg has been creating memorable music from that very human place for years. Over five albums\, she has quietly become one of Americana’s most admired artists. World Cafe praised her “refined\, sumptuously melancholy take on southern storytelling.” NPR called her breakout 2017 release Lucky Strike “one the year’s best\,” for how it “subtly refined the folk-country singer-songwriter template\,” while Rolling Stone hailed 2019’s Violets as Camouflage for its“mix of classic country twang and gentle chamber-pop.” \nBragg says she approached this record intending to swing for the fences. \n“I definitely wanted to aim higher in a no-holds-barred kind of way- creatively just putting all your cards on the table\,” she says. “I saw it as entering a sonic playground\, seeing how much I could uncover with other creative minds.” \nThat meant handing off production duties. In 2022\, Bragg earned a Master of Arts in Songwriting and Production from Berklee NYC\, after producing and engineering organically became a part of her work in 2016. Since then\, she’s produced a couple dozen records for other artists\, including The Accidentals\, Grace Pettis\, and Jackson Emmer in addition to her own most recent releases. \nShe says\, “Part of the reason I didn’t want to produce this record is I wanted to expand what the songs could become in a way that was newly open to possibility.” \nAs she cast her net for potential producers\, the search led her two hours southwest of Nashville\, to Muscle Shoals\, where Ben Tanner and John Paul White were waiting with open ears. Some of her initial attraction to that Alabama town was practical – The Shoals Music Makers Program offers a rebate to artists of up to 30% back on their budgets if they record there. “That felt like a magnetic invitation\,” Bragg says. \nBut the deeper draw was her admiration for Tanner and White’s sensitive production work (The Secret Sisters\, Lera Lynn). What she didn’t anticipate was how quickly they’d come to feel like family. \n“First\, being in the Shoals felt like home to me\,” Bragg says. “My hometown Swainsboro\, Georgia- topographically and culturally feels like Muscle Shoals. But I’ll attribute the feeling largely to Ben and John\, because we are around the same age and were raised by the same kinds of people\, in the same kinds of towns – cut from the same cloth. When we started recording\, none of us knew how joyful it would become\, not only musically but personally. They’re both song-first people\, which was a huge part of why I wanted to work with them. And from day one\, they provided the kind of creative safety net and belief in possibility that you always want when you’re in the studio.”\n“Working with Mary is a producer’s dream\,” White says. “She’s a total pro\, works hard\, hits her marks. Sings beautifully – and like no other. This is one of my favorite projects I’ve had the pleasure and honor to produce – and no small part of that is how much I adore her as a person.” Tanner adds\, “Mary has incredible command of her voice\, both as a singer and a writer. She also carried a completely open\, collaborative attitude\, which made the process joyful and emotionally fulfilling from top to bottom.” \nWhite and Tanner assembled a dream team of players – drummer Chad Gamble (Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit)\, bassist Zac Cockrell (Alabama Shakes) and guitarist/keyboardist Jay Gonzalez (Drive-By Truckers). Basic tracks were cut at the legendary FAME Studios. Recording where Aretha Franklin and Etta James once stood energized Bragg. “There’s this kind of glorious blanket in there that sort of surrounds each person\,” she says. “You feel it when you walk in- an incredible vibe. That also makes you want to kill it. You really want to earn your keep. Like\, ‘Yes\, I belong here. These songs belong here. My voice belongs here.’” \nThe rich variety of music made in FAME – from R & B to rock to reggae – was freeing\, too. While Bragg appreciates that she was once dubbed an “Americana Queen\,” this record moves beyond easy categorization. The album stretches Americana to include indie rock\, pop\, early ’80s radio vibes and southern soul. “It’s geographically neutral\,” Bragg says. “I like that it’s not trying to satisfy the bounds of one genre.” \nBragg is thrilled to share this new chapter in her recording journey\, and hopes it might be the first of many with Tanner and White in Muscle Shoals. “Getting out of Nashville was really a nice feeling\,” she says\, “even for simple reasons like not being as concerned with whether it’s time for dinner and time to go home. Everyone on the project’s willingness to keep going\, every single day we worked together\, was astounding. I have never had that kind of experience making a record.” \n“And John’s still trying to get me to buy a house down there\,” Bragg adds with a smile. “I had to tell him to stop sending me Zillow links. I told him\, ‘If we have a hit record\, I’ll buy a house in Muscle Shoals.’” \nWhen asked what she hopes that listeners get from her latest\, Bragg returns to the theme of connection and secrets to strangers. “I hope that people who hear the record will immediately feel called to honor their own voices\,” she says\, “to hear their own joy and pain\, and say\, ‘Yeah\, that’s me too.’ And especially\, to find your tribe. That may be a little cliché- it’s more to find the people who will hold space for you in this life for exactly who you are.” \n \nThe Mendenhall Sisters are a progressive bluegrass duo crafting original instrumental music that blends tradition with a fresh\, innovative approach as well as putting a unique spin on timeless favorites. Originally from Boston\, Massachusetts\, they are now based in East Tennessee\, where they continue to develop a distinctive acoustic sound. \nYears of playing together have given them a musical connection that lets each piece unfold naturally. Their compositions are full of intricate melodies\, subtle surprises\, and dynamic interplay\, resulting in performances that feel effortless\, lively\, and full of small\, captivating moments.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-wdvx-blue-plate-special-11-7-mary-bragg-the-mendenhall-sisters/
LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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