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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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LOCATION:WDVX\, 301 S. Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kitchen Dwellers and Dogs in a Pile — Mill & Mine — 11/8
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \n\n\n\n\nKitchen Dwellers\nBluegrass \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKitchen Dwellers continue to carve out their own lane in the world of progressive roots music\, blending bluegrass\, folk\, and psychedelic grit into a sound as expansive as their Montana home. The Bozeman-born quartet of Shawn Swain (mandolin)\, Torrin Daniels (banjo)\, Joe Funk (upright bass)\, and Max Davies (acoustic guitar) has grown from regional upstarts into one of the most dynamic and forward-thinking bands in modern string music. Their catalog pairs instrumental virtuosity with emotional storytelling\, an exploratory spirit\, and a deep connection to the American West. \nIn 2024\, Kitchen Dwellers released their latest full-length studio album\, Seven Devils\, which arrived on March 1 and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart. The record expanded the band’s creative reach and reinforced their place at the forefront of progressive roots and bluegrass. The band’s newest release\, The Katabatic EP\, highlights another side of their creative arc. Recorded in late November 2021 at Mighty Fine Studios in Denver and Peach Street Studios in\nBozeman\, the three-song EP captures a vivid snapshot of wintertime inspiration in Montana. Rooted in sweeping landscapes and natural contrasts\, the EP blends mythic lyricism\, atmospheric instrumental interplay\, and a progressive blend of bluegrass\, folk\, and americana that has become the group’s signature. The song “Madison” tells the story of a mystified angler on the Madison River\, drawing parallels between love and the unpredictable rhythms of fishing. The instrumentals “Mimas and Ida” and “Katabatic” broaden the sonic palette with guest trumpeter Eric “Benny” Bloom of Lettuce\, whose brass textures add lift\, spark\, and momentum. Shifting grooves\, evolving tempos\, and evocative melodies evoke mountain valleys\, windswept terrain\, and orbiting moons. The EP was produced by Kitchen Dwellers\, mixed by Stephan Gueguen and Max Davies\, and mastered by Stephan Gueguen. Kitchen Dwellers have continued to earn national attention through consistent touring\, acclaimed studio work\, and an expanding grassroots following. Their studio album discography includes Ghost in the Bottle (2017)\, Muir Maid (2019)\, Wise River (2022)\, and Seven Devils (2024). Collectively\, these releases have amassed more than 15 million streams across platforms\, with recent NOCO releases accounting for more than 8 million. Their vibrant live show has taken them to major festivals and iconic stages across the country. The band has performed at Bonnaroo Music Festival\, Telluride Bluegrass\, Under The Big Sky\, WinterWonderGrass\, Northwest String Summit\, and more. They have also achieved career milestones by headlining Red Rocks Amphitheatre and headlining the historic Ryman\nAuditorium in Nashville. Along the way\, Kitchen Dwellers have received praise from outlets such as Bluegrass Today\,\nHuffington Post\, Relix\, American Songwriter\, and additional national publications. Kitchen Dwellers continue to evolve while staying rooted in the landscapes and creative curiosity that shaped them. With Seven Devils marking a major milestone and\nThe Katabatic EP offering a distilled burst of artistic expression\, the band remains committed to pushing the\nboundaries of modern bluegrass and exploring new musical terrain. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDogs In A Pile\nJam Bands \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSomething organic has been blooming from Asbury Park\, New Jersey\, and is now making its way around the world. Dogs In A Pile\, a band of five twenty somethings with old souls and limitless chops\, is waking people up to the timeless and ineffable joys of psychedelic-tinged jazz-funk rock n’ roll. \nThis is one of the busiest touring bands of today\, averaging 130 live shows per year since 2022. The road has become their creative engine\, generating a rapidly growing catalog of original tunes. Distroid\, the band’s newest album\, is a 10-song collection featuring long-awaited studio versions of some of the Dogs’ most beloved repertoire. \nDogs In A Pile is guitarist Jimmy Law\, guitarist Brian Murray\,  keyboardist Jeremy Kaplan\, bassist Sam Lucid\, and drummer Joe Babick. In addition\, the Dogs In A Pile community includes the Dog Pound\, the group’s extended family of fans across the country. \nBesides being a lyric from the Grateful Dead song\, “He’s Gone\,” the name “Dogs In A Pile” is an apt description of the five-piece band’s stylistic breadth. The sonic image it conjures is a heap of storyteller Americana\, bluegrass\, jazz improvisation\, eccentric instrumental excursions\, pop-rock sophistication\, and deep-pocket grooves\, ranging from funk to Latin to reggae and beyond. \nDistroid features material that has already become staples of the band’s live show. These studio renditions have afforded the group a chance to present the compositions just how they envision them. Distroid offers a cross-section of the Dogs In A Pile essence\, tight and tuneful four-minute funk and jazz informed psych-rock songs\, and then sprawling 15-minute compositions with intricate unison lines\, agile genre-jumping\, and dazzling improvisation.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/kitchen-dwellers-and-dogs-in-a-pile-mill-mine-11-8/
LOCATION:Mill & Mine\, 227 W Depot Ave\, Knoxville\, 37917\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:Eddie 9V — Live at the Bijou — 11/11
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nEddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories – and you’ll find twelve of them on his most recent studio album Saratoga\, released in November 2024 on the fabled Ruf Records label. A thrilling mix of Southern soul\, blues\, rock\, and funk\, Saratoga proved to be a gamechanger: a road trip-ready record filled with razor-sharp observations\, vintage textures\, and raw humanity. It also marked a major career milestone: Eddie 9V’s soulful sound began reaching hundreds of thousands of new fans across the globe. Now signed to Easy Eye Sound — the Nashville-based label founded by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys — Eddie 9V is preparing to release a brand-new album in 2026. And the momentum keeps growing. \nSince Saratoga dropped\, Eddie’s monthly listeners on Spotify have exploded from 8\,000 to peaking at over 800\,000.. Songs like “Halo\,” “Saratoga” and “Love Moves Slow” have become SiriusXM Spectrum-certified tracks\, gaining steady spins and major audience love. \nBut this rise is years in the making. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local Georgia stage\, Eddie 9V (born Brooks Mason) has been an artist to watch. First cutting his teeth in cover bands and regional blues circuits\, he made the leap to full-time frontman with a name that couldn’t be ignored. “I wanted to start from scratch – and I ain’t never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V.” \nThat leap paid off. His early albums Left My Soul In Memphis (2019) and Little Black Flies (2021) turned heads for their wild energy and vintage flair. 2022's Capricorn was a breakout moment\, earning rave reviews from Classic Rock\, The Guardian\, and more. It debuted at #1 on the blues charts before being dethroned by Bonnie Raitt — “a cool story to be able to say\,”  Eddie laughs. \nBy the time Saratoga arrived\, Eddie 9V had evolved into a full-spectrum songwriter\, tapping into deep wells of soul and storytelling alongside his brother and longtime collaborator Lane Kelly. Much of the album was recorded at their Echo Deco Studio in Atlanta\, with some sessions at Denver’s Crown Lanes Studio. From the disco-tinged horns of the title track to the fuzzed-out dreamscape of “Delta\,” it’s a record that widened the lens without losing the grit. \nNow with a major label partner\, national tours\, SiriusXM airplay\, and streaming growth that shows no signs of slowing\, Eddie 9V is poised for the next chapter. A new album is on the horizon. The band is sharper than ever. And if Saratoga was the ignition\, what's coming next is the open highway. “I’m already writing new songs\,” he says. “You never stop.”
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/eddie-9v-live-at-the-bijou-11-11/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T213000
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SUMMARY:Southern Nights Comedy Tour ft. Mary Ryan Brown and Landon Bryant — Clayton Center — 11/12
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \nGet ready for a night of big laughs and sharp Southern storytelling as Landon Bryant and Mary Ryan Brown bring the Southern Nights Comedy Tour to the stage. \nMary Ryan Brown brings her own fearless perspective to the stage. With razor-sharp wit and hilarious takes on relationships\, family life\, and Southern culture\, she has become one of the rising voices in stand-up comedy. Her comedy specials can be seen on Dry Bar Comedy and Nateland Live. \nLandon Bryant is a bestselling author whose observations about Southern life have built a massive following across the country. Known for his viral storytelling and authentic voice\, Bryant connects with audiences through humor that feels instantly familiar. His growing popularity has led to sold-out live events and a rapidly expanding national fan base. A viral Southern humor creator with millions of online views\, he has appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and Nateland Live at Zanies Nashville. \nTogether\, Landon Bryant and Mary Ryan Brown deliver a fast-paced night of stand-up filled with stories you’ll recognize\, characters you’ve met\, and laughs that keep coming from start to finish. \nDon’t miss the Southern Nights Comedy Tour — a night of comedy that celebrates the humor\, stories\, and personalities of the South. \nLearn more about each comedian at maryryanbrown.com and landontalks.com.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/southern-nights-comedy-tour-ft-mary-ryan-brown-and-landon-bryant-clayton-center-11-12/
LOCATION:Clayton Center for The Arts\, 502 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy\, Maryville\, TN\, 37804\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Featured Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T200000
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SUMMARY:The SteelDrivers — The Caverns — 11/13 & 11/14\, 11/20 & 11/21
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nFew bands are as tied to THE CAVERNS as THE STEELDRIVERS. This November\, they return to GRUNDY COUNTY\, TN for a rare four-night “Four of a Kind” residency\, NOVEMBER 13 & 14 and NOVEMBER 20 & 21\, 2026. From the very first Bluegrass Underground show in 2008 to today\, their performances have become a defining part of the underground experience—each night offering something a little different.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-steeldrivers-the-caverns-11-13-11-14-11-20-11-21/2026-11-13/
LOCATION:The Caverns\, 555 Charlie Roberts Road\, Pelham\, 37366\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T213000
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SUMMARY:We Love Dolly! — Live at the Bijou — 11/13
DESCRIPTION:The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra and special guests perform the music of Dolly Parton! All net proceeds benefit the Imagination Library of Knox County. Featuring vocalists Robinella Bailey\, Jeannine Fuller\, Evelyn Jack\, Kelle Jolly\, Jonathan and Wendy Maness\, Stina Nesbit\, and other special guests! \nThe evening’s program will include Jolene\, 9 to 5\, I Will Always Love You\, Here You Come Again\, Two Doors Down\, Coat of Many Colors\, Islands in the Stream\, and other classic hits. \nPURCHASE YOUR “WE LOVE DOLLY!” TICKETS HERE! \nSUPPORT THIS EVENT: Want to go a step further and help us make a bigger impact? Consider a donation to offset our production costs for the event. Learn more! \n 
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/we-love-dolly-live-at-the-bijou-11-13/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T200000
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SUMMARY:The SteelDrivers — The Caverns — 11/13 & 11/14\, 11/20 & 11/21
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nFew bands are as tied to THE CAVERNS as THE STEELDRIVERS. This November\, they return to GRUNDY COUNTY\, TN for a rare four-night “Four of a Kind” residency\, NOVEMBER 13 & 14 and NOVEMBER 20 & 21\, 2026. From the very first Bluegrass Underground show in 2008 to today\, their performances have become a defining part of the underground experience—each night offering something a little different.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-steeldrivers-the-caverns-11-13-11-14-11-20-11-21/2026-11-14/
LOCATION:The Caverns\, 555 Charlie Roberts Road\, Pelham\, 37366\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T200000
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CREATED:20261023T142916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261023T142936Z
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SUMMARY:The SteelDrivers — The Caverns — 11/13 & 11/14\, 11/20 & 11/21
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nFew bands are as tied to THE CAVERNS as THE STEELDRIVERS. This November\, they return to GRUNDY COUNTY\, TN for a rare four-night “Four of a Kind” residency\, NOVEMBER 13 & 14 and NOVEMBER 20 & 21\, 2026. From the very first Bluegrass Underground show in 2008 to today\, their performances have become a defining part of the underground experience—each night offering something a little different.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-steeldrivers-the-caverns-11-13-11-14-11-20-11-21/2026-11-20/
LOCATION:The Caverns\, 555 Charlie Roberts Road\, Pelham\, 37366\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261121T200000
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SUMMARY:The SteelDrivers — The Caverns — 11/13 & 11/14\, 11/20 & 11/21
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nFew bands are as tied to THE CAVERNS as THE STEELDRIVERS. This November\, they return to GRUNDY COUNTY\, TN for a rare four-night “Four of a Kind” residency\, NOVEMBER 13 & 14 and NOVEMBER 20 & 21\, 2026. From the very first Bluegrass Underground show in 2008 to today\, their performances have become a defining part of the underground experience—each night offering something a little different.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/the-steeldrivers-the-caverns-11-13-11-14-11-20-11-21/2026-11-21/
LOCATION:The Caverns\, 555 Charlie Roberts Road\, Pelham\, 37366\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261203T193000
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SUMMARY:Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Christmas — Tennessee Theatre — 12/3
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nYou know “Christmas Time’s A Coming” when 15-time GRAMMY winner and Country Music Hall of Fame member Ricky Skaggs and his ace backing band Kentucky Thunder play all your favorite Christmas songs in their refreshing acoustic style. This heartwarming show features a reason to listen to the season of songs both old and new as Skaggs and his band perform their own perfect blend of tight harmony. Come celebrate this special time of year with friends and family\, while listening to first class vocalists and musicians\, singing and playing their finest for Christmastime. The show includes the joyful bluegrass tune “Christmas Time’s A Coming” along with a beautiful rendition of “New Star Shining\,” a hit song for Ricky Skaggs and James Taylor. Beloved classic songs “Silent Night\,” “Deck the Halls\,” and “Let it Snow” are fully represented\, along with many other special Christmas melodies.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/ricky-skaggs-kentucky-thunder-christmas-tennessee-theatre-12-3/
LOCATION:Tennessee Theatre\, 604 S Gay St\, Knoxville\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261205T190000
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SUMMARY:Dailey & Vincent: Candy Canes & Coal — Live at the Bijou — 12/5
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \n“Two voices\, one vision — preserving the heart of American music.” \nGrand Ole Opry members\, Grammy nominees\, and multi-award winners Dailey & Vincent are among the most respected and celebrated duos in American roots music. With unmistakable harmonies\, masterful musicianship\, and a signature blend of bluegrass\, country\, and gospel\, Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent have built a career defined by excellence\, authenticity\, and heart. \nSince launching their duo in 2007\, Dailey & Vincent have earned more than 30 industry awards\, performed on iconic stages including Carnegie Hall\, the Hollywood Bowl\, and the Grand Ole Opry\, and connected with audiences across the country through The Dailey & Vincent Show on RFD-TV\, reaching more than 200\,000 viewers each week. Their latest album\, A Beautiful Life\, released June 12\, 2026\, debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums chart and has already produced two No. 1 singles at bluegrass radio: “Ruby” and “Moon Shines on the Still.” The success marks another chapter in a career that has consistently honored the traditions of bluegrass while expanding the music’s reach to audiences far beyond the genre. \nDailey & Vincent’s impact extends well beyond the concert stage. Their recording of “I’ll Leave My Heart in Tennessee” was adopted as an official Tennessee State Song\, while their annual Dailey & Vincent Music Fest in Hiawassee\, Georgia continues to bring fans from across the country together for a multi-day celebration of music and community. \nLooking ahead to 2027\, Dailey & Vincent will celebrate two significant milestones: 20 years as a duo and 10 years as members of the Grand Ole Opry. Rooted in faith\, friendship\, and a shared love of American music\, they continue to evolve while remaining committed to the harmony\, musicianship\, and timeless songs that have defined Dailey & Vincent from the beginning.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/dailey-vincent-candy-canes-coal-live-at-the-bijou-12-5/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261208T210000
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SUMMARY:Liz Longley’s The Holiday Fuss — Clayton Center — 12/8
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \nNashville-based singer-songwriter Liz Longley is taking her music on the road this holiday season for a very special first-ever Christmas tour. Known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice and deeply personal songwriting\, Liz is embarking on this journey in support of her forthcoming EP\, The Holiday Fuss – a collection of original songs that capture the warmth\, chaos\, and magic of the season. \nAfter releasing her debut Christmas EP A Little Magic in 2020\, Liz adds a second holiday collection to her catalog\, deepening her love for the season and the stories it inspires. For fans who have followed Liz through albums like Funeral For My Past and New Life\, this is a rare and intimate opportunity to experience her in a completely different light – festive\, joyful\, and full of the same emotional depth that has made her one of Americana/folk’s most beloved voices.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/liz-longleys-the-holiday-fuss-clayton-center-12-8/
LOCATION:Clayton Center for The Arts\, 502 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy\, Maryville\, TN\, 37804\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Featured Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261210T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T134756Z
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SUMMARY:Allman Betts Family Revival — Tennessee Theatre — 12/10
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nWhat started as a 70th birthday celebration for Gregg Allman in 2017 has evolved into an annual celebration of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s finest catalogs. Galvanizing the families of Allman & Betts: The Allman Betts Family Revival has become a yearly tradition featuring some of the finest musicians on the planet. Devon and Duane honor their families’ legacies\, evoking the haunting spirit of the greats that came before them by gathering a world class ensemble cast a la “The Last Waltz\,” with songs bursting with new fervor nationwide. The Revival stage has seen the likes of Slash\, Jason Isbell\, Steve Earle\, Sierra Ferrell\, Marcus King sitting in – while legends like Jimmy Hall\, Robert Randolph & Amanda Shires have hopped on the bus for the entire coast to coast 2026 jaunt.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/allman-betts-family-revival-tennessee-theatre-12-10/
LOCATION:Tennessee Theatre\, 604 S Gay St\, Knoxville\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261217T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261217T193000
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SUMMARY:Samantha Fish\, Cedric Burnside\, Daddy Long Legs: Shake Em On Down Tour — Live at the Bijou — 12/17
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \nGet ready to rock n roll as Samantha Fish brings her annual multi-bill Shake ’Em on Down Tour 2026! Feat: Samantha Fish\, Cedric Burnside\, & Daddy Long Legs \nCurated by Samantha Fish herself\, this high-powered\, multi-artist caravan showcases the past\, present\,and future of the blues. It brings together three powerful blues fueled acts for one unforgettable\, night of music that pushes boundaries and honors deep-rooted traditions. \nSamantha Fish continues to redefine what modern blues looks and sounds like. \nCedric Burnside brings pure blues royalty to the bill\, this Grammy Award-winning guitarist\, drummer\, and singer is the ultimate torchbearer of the hypnotic North Mississippi Hill Country blues style. The grandson of the legendary R.L. Burnside\, Cedric carves his own path\, introducing his distinct\, inherited family legacy to fans all over the world. \nDaddy Long Legs is a raw\, super charged high energy blues band from Brooklyn\, New York. Formed in 2010\, the sharp-dressed group describes themselves as NYC’s “diabolical rhythm and blues street gang”; Celebrated by No Depression as “The Coolest\, Most Authentically Groovy Band You’ve Never Heard Of\,” Daddy Long Legs deliver a lo-fi blend of garage rock\, punk\, and vintage country-blues driven by feral vocals and explosive harmonica. \nJoin us for this special night of music. \n 
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/samantha-fish-cedric-burnside-daddy-long-legs-shake-em-on-down-tour-live-at-the-bijou-12-17/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261220T190000
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SUMMARY:Mike McGill’s 14th Annual Christmas Spectacular — Live at the Bijou — 12/20
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nCelebrate the season with Mike McGill’s 14th Annual Christmas Spectacular! A Knoxville holiday tradition\, Mike’s Yuletide show continues to raise funds for Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee’s Food for Kids program. A lineup of local musicians and holiday cheer await! Treat yourself to a fun evening out: Not only will you enjoy great music and entertainment\, but you’ll be taking care of your holiday good deed at the same time (all proceeds from the event go to feed hungry kids in East Tennessee). See you there!
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/mike-mcgills-14th-annual-christmas-spectacular-live-at-the-bijou-12-20/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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SUMMARY:Milk Man & The Big Band — Live at the Bijou — 1/15
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nDino “Milk Man” Nassios is a young man with an old soul. That’s a common cliché\, of course\, but given Dino’s devotion to the sounds of an earlier era\, it clearly rings true. That was immediately evident with the release of Let Me Tell You\, the 2024 13-song debut album by Milk Man & The Big Band. Recorded by an 18-piece instrumental ensemble that consists of college students playing real strings\, real horns and actual analog keyboards\, it established a signature style that eschews digital emulators and the simulated effects that often fall short when it comes to conveying true authenticity. \n\nBased out of Knoxville\, the band first coalesced in 2021 and has been delighting audiences ever since. With their second release\, Milk Man Live In Concert\, a live album recorded around Knoxville\, it’s easy to understand why their audience has continued to grow. For starters\, Nassios is a classic crooner\, a singer who coveys a clear commitment and command of the material that’s shared here. So too\, the arrangements delivered by these young musicians are singularly upbeat and inventive\, transforming classic tunes like Pink Floyd’s “Have A Cigar\,” Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” and Cream’s “White Room” in ways that might not have otherwise been imagined. At the same time\, the band’s originals — the rousing “Let Me Tell You\,” the riveting “Hammurabi’s Pad” and the calming caress of “Tired” in particular — find equal footing\, as if they too have been in the ether forever. \nIn a sense\, Milk Man & The Big Band borrow from the brash and brassy sound that characterized earlier outfits like Steely Dan\, Chicago and Blood Sweat and Tears. Like them\, they use horns for both accentuation and innovation\, courtesy of a distinctive and dynamic delivery. They turn back the pages to a time when anything was possible\, and creativity was culled from invention and know-how in equal proportion. \nMilk Man & The Big Band’s reverence for past precepts is truly unerring and impressive. The fact that these musicians are so credible and capable when it comes to fulfilling their stated mission makes this album that much more solid and significant. Milk Man Live In Concert offers a clear indication of a legacy they not only lean on\, but happily propel into the future. Again\, to tap into a common cliché\, it’s fair to say this Milk Man delivers.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/milk-man-the-big-band-live-at-the-bijou-1-15/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:WDVX Presents James McMurtry and the Martial Law Review w/ BettySoo — Live at the Bijou — 1/29
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \nA Lone Star sheriff hunts quail on horseback and keeps a secret second family. A mechanic lies among the spare parts on the floor of his garage and wonders if he can afford to keep his girlfriend. A troubled man sees hallucinations of a black dog and a wandering boy and hums “Weird Al” songs in his head. These are some of the strange and richly drawn characters who inhabit James McMurtry’s eleventh album\, The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller\, he teases vivid worlds out of small details\, setting them to arrangements that have the elements of Americana—rolling guitars\, barroom harmonies\, traces of banjo and harmonica—but sound too sly and smart for such a general category. Funny and sad often in the same breath\, the album adds a new chapter to a long career that has enjoyed a resurgence as young songwriters like Sarah Jarosz and Jason Isbell cite him as a formative influence. \nAs varied as they are\, these new story-songs find inspiration in scraps from his family’s past: a stray sketch\, an old poem by a family friend\, the hallucinations experienced by his father\, the writer Larry McMurtry. “It’s something I do all the time\,” he says\, “but usually I draw from my own scraps.” As any good writer will do\, McMurtry collects little\nideas and hangs on to them for years\, sometimes even decades. “South Texas Lawman” grew out of a line from a poem by a friend of the McMurtry clan\, T.D. Hobart. Driven by gravelly guitars and a loose rhythm section\, it’s a careful study of a man whose feelings of obsolescence motivate him to take drastic action in the final verse. “Dwight’d stay at\nour house way back in the ‘70s\, when we lived in Virginia. During one visit he wrote this poem about his father’s attitude toward South Texas. He wrote it down on cardboard\, and I came across it recently. There was a line about hunting quail on horseback\, and that was the seed of the song. I’ve lost the poem since then.” \nThe rumbling title track\, a kind of squirrelly blues\, features two mysterious figures who appear only to those slipping from reality\, yet it’s never grim nor especially despairing. Instead\, McMurtry namechecks a “Weird Al” deep cut and depicts a tortured soul who doesn’t have to work a nine-to-five. He finds a defiant humor in the situation at odds\nwith the gravity of the source material. “The title of the album and that song comes from my stepmother\, Faye. After my dad passed\, she asked me if he ever talked to me about his hallucinations. He’d gone into dementia for a while before he died\, but hadn’t mentioned to me anything about seeing things. She told me his favorite hallucinations were the black dog and the wandering boy. I took them and applied them to a fictional character.” \nSoon McMurtry had enough of these songs for a new record. “It happened like all my records happened. It’d been too long since I’d had a record that the press could write about and get people to come out to my shows. It was time.” What was different this time was the presence of his old friend Don Dixon\, who produced McMurtry’s third\nalbum\, Where You’d Hide the Body?\, back in 1995. “A couple of years ago I quit producing myself. I felt like I was repeating myself methodologically and stylistically. I needed to go back to producer school\, so I brought in CC Adcock for Complicated Game\, and then Ross Hogarth did The Horses & the Hounds. It seemed natural to revisit Mr.\nDixon’s homeroom. I wanted to learn some of what he’s learned over the last thirty years.” During sessions at Wire Recording in Austin\, McMurtry observed firsthand Dixon’s grasp of digital recording technology as well as his instinctual approach to tracking. “What Don’s really good at is being able to sense when it’s happening. He can\nhear when it’s going down. If I’m producing myself and I don’t have him\, I have to do three takes and then go in and listen to them. Listening to those three takes can take about 15 minutes. So Dixon’s ability to know when it’s happening is crucial\, because it can cut 15 minutes out of the day. That can really save a session\, because you only have so many hours in the day and only so much energy. \nWorking with McMurtry’s trusted backing band—Cornbread on bass\, Tim Holt on guitar\, Daren Hess on drums\, BettySoo on backing vocals—they worked to create something that sounds spontaneous\, as though he’s writing the songs as you hear them. They were open to odd experiments\, weird whims\, and happy accidents\, such as the\ncover of Jon Dee Graham’s “Laredo” that opens the album. It’s an opioid blues: testimony from a part-time junkie losing a weekend to dope. “We were playing a benefit for Jon Dee at the Hole in the Wall there in Austin\, and we thought it’d be good if we played one of his songs. We rehearsed the song in the studio\, and it sounded good. The\ndrums were ready. We’d already got the sounds up. Might as well record it.” \n“Laredo” is one of a pair of covers that bookend The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy\, the other being Kris Kristofferson’s “Broken Freedom Song.” “I did that one a few weeks after our initial sessions. It was just me and BettySoo\, then we added drums and bass later on. Kris had just passed not too long before we recorded it. I guess that’s why I was thinking about him.” Like Hobart’s poem\, it’s a bit of inspiration excavated from deep\nwithin his own life. “Kris was one of my major influences as a child. He was the first person that I recognized as a songwriter. I hadn’t really thought about where songs came from\, but I started listening to Kristofferson as a songwriter and thinking\, How do you do this? He was actually the second concert I saw. I was nine. He and the band were having such a good time\, and that really solidified for me that this was what I wanted to do with my life.” \nOnce the album was mixed\, mastered\, and sequenced\, McMurtry recalled a rough pencil sketch he had found a few years earlier in his father’s effects. It seemed like it might make a good cover. “I knew it was of me\, but I didn’t realize who drew it. I asked my mom and my stepdad\, and finally I asked my stepmom\, Faye\, who said it looked like\nKen Kesey’s work back in the ‘60s. She was married to Ken for forty years.” The Merry Prankster’s—Kesey’s roving band of hippie activists and creators—stopped by often to visit Larry McMurtry and his family. “I don’t remember their first visit\, the one documented in Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I was too young\, but I do\nremember a couple of Ken’s visits. I guess he drew it on one of those later stops. I remembered it and thought it would be the perfect art\, but I had to go back through the storage locker. It’s a miracle that I found it again.” \nIt’s a fitting image for an album that scavenges personal history for inspiration. Even the songwriter himself doesn’t always know what will happen or where the songs will take him. “You follow the words where they lead. If you can get a character\, maybe you can get a story. If you can set it to a verse-chorus structure\, maybe you can get a song. A\nsong can come from anywhere\, but the main inspiration is fear. Specifically\, fear of irrelevance. If you don’t have songs\, you don’t have a record. If you don’t have a record\, you don’t have a tour. You gotta keep putting out work.” \n 
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LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emily Ann Roberts: The Thread Tour — Tennessee Theatre — 2/6
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nA truly singular voice in modern country music\, Emily Ann Roberts is the rare artist whose rise to stardom has only brought her closer to her roots. In the last year alone\, the Knoxville-bred singer/songwriter has earned ACM and CMA Awards New Artist nominations\, landed on coveted lists like Opry NextStage and MusicRow’s Next Big Thing Artists Classes Of 2026\, lit up arenas across the country on tour with superstars such as Cody Johnson and Thomas Rhett\, winning over massive crowds with her stunning vocals and vibrant musicality. That breakout success arrived after a decade-long stretch of perseverance on the part of the 28-year-old\, whose devotion to traditional country has never wavered despite plenty of industry pressure to chase pop trends. Now bolstered by an ever-growing community of fans (thanks in part to her much-beloved “Yeehaw Meemaw” persona)\, Roberts steps into her next chapter with Thread: a five-song EP that finds a new kind of magic in the timeless sounds and storytelling heritage she’s treasured all her life. \nThe latest addition to a catalog including her widely celebrated 2023 debut album Can’t Hide Country\, Thread sustains the radiant spirit and effortless charm of Roberts’ past work even as she reaches a whole new level of emotional complexity. To that end\, the EP takes its title from a beautifully bittersweet track that doubles as a fictional vignette of heartbroken longing and a real-life reflection on uncertainty and faith. “With ‘Thread’ I wanted to paint a picture of a girl whose relationship has ended\, but she’s still holding onto that one little strand of hope that he’ll come back to her\,” Roberts explains. “I also saw a little of myself in that story\, because of the season I’d been in since my first record—I had a lot of plans that didn’t work out\, but instead of giving up I just kept dreaming that I’d get to share another body of work with the world. Sometimes you’ve gotta find a way to keep on believing\, even when you’re hanging on by a thread.” \nMainly produced by Frank Rogers\, Thread brings an effervescent energy to the time-honored musical traditions Roberts has embraced since childhood. “If there’s one thing I’ve always been sure of\, it’s my sound\,” she says. “I’m so inspired by the purity of the Appalachian music I grew up on\, so with this project I just wanted to lean further into fiddle and acoustic guitars and all those elements that make country and bluegrass so special.” Naming Dolly Parton\, Patty Loveless\, and Ricky Skaggs among her early influences\, Roberts started writing songs in her bedroom at age 12\, plucking out melodies on a hand-me-down guitar. At 14\, music took on an entirely new meaning after she witnessed its impact on her grandmother Dot\, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. “I’ll never forget visiting the assisted-living facility one day and finding my grandmother singing hymns with a group of volunteers\,” she recalls. “She couldn’t recognize me or my parents\, but if we started singing together she’d always join in. That whole experience showed me how powerful a song can be. And it made me realize that if God gave me this gift\, I needed to get serious and pursue it to the best of my ability.” \nFiercely committed to her calling\, Roberts soon booked a gig at a local Mexican restaurant\, where she played every Friday night for tips and a free plate of food. Within a year\, she earned a spot on season nine of The Voice after being discovered via YouTube\, competing on Blake Shelton’s team and finishing as a runner-up. Rather than rushing to capitalize on that exposure\, Roberts spent the coming years honing her craft in Nashville and held tight to her convictions when industry gatekeepers questioned her place in the country landscape. “At the time things were very pop-leaning\, and people didn’t know what to do with my more traditional sound\,” she says. “I watched so many of my friends sign record deals\, release songs to radio\, go out on these big tours\, and I felt like I was getting left behind. There were years when I felt like it was all passing me by\, but I just kept writing and working and growing\, and finally the timing all worked out perfectly.” \nAfter signing to RECORDS/Sony Music Nashville in 2025\, Roberts made her label debut with the Memory Lane EP\, then quickly set to work on Thread. Recorded with A-list musicians like steel guitarist Dan Dugmore (Carrie Underwood\, Kacey Musgraves) and fiddle/mandolin player Jenee Fleenor (Cody Johnson\, Miranda Lambert)\, Thread adorns its earthy instrumentation with a wealth of breathtaking melodies—a dynamic gorgeously displayed on “Lonely Boy” and its soul-soothing serenade to an unlucky romantic. “That song’s inspired by a close friend who’s such a catch\, but keeps looking for love in all the wrong places\,” she reveals. On “Garden Grow\,” Roberts offers up a brightly detailed piece of autobiography\, letting listeners in on the life she’s built with her husband. “People ask me all the time how I manage to maintain my career\, tend a garden\, keep up a home\, and all the rest\,” she says. “The truth is\, it all comes down to love. We pour our hearts into everything we do\, and that’s what makes our world go round.” And on “Laundry\,” Thread closes out with a quietly devastating ballad\, illuminating her gift for capturing the overlooked realities of women’s lives. “It’s the story of a woman who’s been holding everything together at home while her husband’s away\, only to find out he’s been unfaithful\,” she says. “He’s out chasing his dreams\, riding on airplanes\, going to fancy dinners\, and she’s back home doing laundry. I love how the chorus is so simple but still powerful—to me\, that’s what makes a great country song.” \nAlso featuring “When I Do\,” a witty yet wistful portrait of post-breakup denial\, Thread endlessly spotlights the down-to-earth but dazzling charisma that’s endeared Roberts to countless fans\, including those who closely follow her endeavors as the Yeehaw Meemaw. “I’ve always loved old-fashioned things\, so a while ago I started posting about the way I live and all my crocheting and canning and baking and gardening\,” says Roberts. “It feels good to create something with my hands instead of just scrolling on my phone\, and to preserve all these skills that have gotten lost over the years.” Not only a cherished source of connection with her followers\, her homespun lifestyle reflects a refusal to compromise any part of herself. “The same way I love to tell all kinds of stories with my music\, I think it’s fun to show all the different sides of my personality\,” says Roberts. “I’m an artist but I’m also a homemaker; one day I’m crocheting in my comfy clothes\, the next I’m putting on high heels and fake hair to get up onstage. My hope is that it shows everyone—especially women—that you don’t have to pick just one thing to be.” \nAs her music finds its way into more and more lives\, Roberts has encountered an increasing number of fans of all ages turning up at concerts. “At my shows\, I’ll look out and see everyone from five-year-olds to 75-year-olds\, which is so special to me\,” she says. “The older generations tell me how I remind them of the music they grew up on\, but for the younger ones\, it’s something completely new.” After completing a UK/European run with Cody Johnson—marking her first return overseas since her rapturously received appearance at C2C: Country to Country.”
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/emily-ann-roberts-the-thread-tour-tennessee-theatre-2-6/
LOCATION:Tennessee Theatre\, 604 S Gay St\, Knoxville\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shovels & Rope: Bare Bones — Live at the Bijou — 2/11
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \nSOMETHING IS WORKING UP ABOVE MY HEAD \nOne night in the middle of the night there were a series of noises coming from\nabove which lead to a series of thoughts. It sounded like something was\nworking. Building something.. A nest for its family? A trap for its prey? This\nled to more thoughts about unseen things at work. A God? A voice in your\nhead? It all feels kind of made up until someone responds to it. \nLess means more. That’s kind of always how it’s been with us. This time the\nrules were simple: we can only use what we work with live and whatever we\nput down on tape must be accomplishable on a stage in a live setting. That’s\nalways seemed to be when we’re at our best. Or most twitchy. Many times\nwe’ve made records that we loved and then\, after figuring out how we’d perform\nit live\, we end up falling in love with the live arrangement because being a 2\npiece band it took some real risk and struggle which led to innovation which\ngave it a whole new life. (Consider the tortured grape.) So with this one we just\nstarted there and worked backwards. The result encapsulates\, more than\nanything we’ve done before\, the sound of our live performance. Resulting in\nwhat one might consider by definition\, a definitive album. \nThe summer and fall leading up to recording we spent writing songs\, hanging\nout with family in Colorado and playing shows opening for The Wood Brothers\nand Gregory Alan Isokov\, both of whom have large audiences. So each night we\nwere playing in front of a lot of people\, many of whom had never heard of us.\nWe decided to take those opportunities to rattle our comfort zone cage and try\nout a bunch of brand new\, just written songs and basically learn how to play\nthem in front a few thousand people. The songs would grow and change show\nto show\, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Maybe we go\ndown in flames? Maybe something beautiful happens while it’s burning? We\nhappily embraced the chaos. That’s kind of always how it’s been with us. \nWe had a new song that initially neither of us thought that much of called ‘Love\nSong From A Dog’. During one of the first nights of the Isakov run we decided\,\non stage\, mid set\, to try it out because the show was going well and the\naudience was warm. To our surprise\, it kind of killed and became a fan favorite\nmoment of our set each night. And honestly in all the years of doing this we’ve\nnever had so many people send us messages or reach out about any one\nspecific song as they did this one.. It just goes to show us that we don’t know\nanything. When it came time to record it we thought it’d be fitting and a nice\ntouch to have Greg sing on it since it was his audience who basically fostered it into being by giving us the confidence and encouragement we needed to see it\nthe way they did. He generously obliged and the song was instantly elevated by\nthe sincerity and richness of mood that colors his voice. \nThe two of us can’t help but be obsessed with duality. The song ‘Two Wolves’ is\na meditation about two conflicting energies competing for power. The first time\nwe ever played it was on New Years Eve at Rupp Arena opening for Tyler\nChilders in front of 15k or so country music fans who surely were like “what the\nhell is this” but to us it seemed 100 percent appropriate because\, if we have a\nsong made for an arena\, this is probably it. A fuzzy\, thick riffed stomper with a\nhypnotic head bob refrain. It was a big show on a big stage and we were feeling\nour saltiest rock n roll consummate professional selves in that moment\, so we\nwent wide open with it off the rip because well\, we had to. \nFor those who are new here we’ve spent the last decade or so bouncing around\nin the ‘Americana’ realm quite a bit. Getting branded into that world was\nadmittedly a bit of a shoulder shrug for us as we’ve always identified more as\nmessy\, misfit\, folk songwriters and electric yarn spinners who’s harmonies land\nsomewhere between sweet and spit.. But the people were paying attention and\nwe were building a fan base so we kind of felt like “who were we to tell them\nwho we weren’t?” But when you go all the way to Europe and are standing on a\nstage in front of a few hundred Scandinavians who are dressed in head to toe\ndenim and cowboy hats expecting something a little more specific\, we can’t\nhelp but feel like we’re about to confuse some people. We will often find\nourselves playing an outdoor\, ‘free in the park’ type of concert series where a\nMale and Female with 2 guitars and beautiful harmonies will be booked as the\nopener and then we’ll take the stage and proceed to be a little louder and\nmaybe a little more brash than was anticipated.. It’s always kind of been this\nway with us. The joke in our camp when this happens goes something like:\nAnd for tonight’s entertainment we have for you “The What We Thought They\nWere’s” followed by the “Louder Than We Thoughts”! Recently we did a gig\nwhere the spokesperson said to us just before we went on ‘so maybe don’t\ncome out with your heaviest guitar stuff and your 808 bass bullshit right off the\nrip.. there are kids and old people here and they’ll leave” (he was trying to be\nhelpful). We politely told him “Don’t worry\, we have a plan”.. and then again\nopened with Two Wolves\, with its loud guitar stuff and its 808 bullshit\, followed\nby a dynamic set where we touched on all the different things we do and\neveryone proceeded to have a great time. That’s kind of always how it’s been\nwith us. \nSomething Is Working Up Above My Head is a catalog of vulnerable characters\nwith sweet and sordid narratives. \n  \n‘Colorado River’ is a song about a boy and his Dad disposing of bodies in\nvarious ways as the water level recedes and dark surprises surface. The hot\ndog bun line was initially supposed to be a place holder because it sounded\nfunny and it rhymed\, but then we sang it sooo many times over the summer that\nit built a little hot dog shack and moved in forever. I still think it’s kind of dumb\nbut it’s also kind of great. For those who pay attention it’s a pretty obvious John\nPrine nod. I’d like to think he handed us the hot dog bun like a relay baton on\nhis way to the great mystery. Macabre pairs well with a side of humor.\n‘Piranhanana’ is about a boy growing up in a house of sex workers and being\nfine with it with a little meditation\, while his sister struggles to find her zen. ‘I’d\nbe lying’ is about navigating a crisis with a long time friend. ‘Double Lines’\nfollows the journey of a young woman thru pregnancy tests\, covid tests and\nvarious other forms of duality and two-ness. \n  \n‘Something is Working’ and ‘Dass Hymn’ (referring to Ram Dass) were the last 2\nsongs written and added to this collection of songs. They book end the record\nwith questions about what\, if anything\, is pulling the strings? In the closing\nmoments of the last song\, 3 generations of our family all sing together about\nhow nobody knows what happens at the end. And in all the not knowing\, it’s\ncomforting to sing with your family. \n 
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/shovels-rope-bare-bones-live-at-the-bijou-2-11/
LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Erick Baker: "Beautiful Life" Album Release Show — Live at the Bijou — 2/13
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets Here! \nErick Baker is an Emmy Award-winning folk soul singer-songwriter from Knoxville\, Tennessee\, who has spent nearly two decades turning the poetry of everyday life into soulful Americana songs that feel like your own. \n  \nHe didn’t pick up a guitar until after college\, but what began as a late start quickly grew into something much deeper. Drawn from real life\, his songs speak to the joys and struggles that connect us all\, blending folk\, rock\, country\, and soul into something distinctly his own. The result is music that feels lived-in\, honest\, and deeply human. \n  \nKnown for his powerful live performances and a voice that hits you right in the chest\, he’s shared the stage with John Legend\, Brandi Carlile\, Grace Potter\, the Goo Goo Dolls\, and rock legends Heart\, rising from the corners of smoky dive bars to iconic stages like Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. \n  \nAsheville’s Mountain Xpress has called him a “heart-on-his-sleeve troubadour” with “a smoke and whiskey tenor full of range and emotion\,” while The Daily Times wrote that “Baker has built a career out of peeling back the skin and bones that surround his beating heart…to watch him perform is to witness a man who truly believes in what he’s doing.” \n  \nSince his 2008 debut\, Baker has released eight albums and earned national recognition not only for his music\, but also as a children’s book author and host of the PBS travel series Tennessee Valley Uncharted\, celebrating his Southern roots. \n  \nWith his upcoming studio album Beautiful Life arriving in early 2027\, he takes a defining step forward in both his songwriting and sound\, while continuing to make music that helps people feel seen\, understood\, and a little less alone. \nValentine’s Day VIP Experience (Pre-Show Add-On): \n  \nEnjoy an exclusive pre-show experience for TWO\, for just $100. \n  \nYou and your guest will enjoy:\nAn intimate acoustic performance before the main show\nA photo opportunity on the Bijou Theatre stage with Erick\nA champagne toast\nA box of Erick & Mandy’s homemade brown butter toffee chocolate chip cookies\nEarly entry into the theatre \n Details:\nVIP experience begins at 5:30 PM.\nEach guest must also have a ticket to the show.
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LOCATION:Bijou Theatre\, 803 South Gay Street\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Drive-By Truckers — Mill & Mine — 2/17
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Here! \n\n\n\nSince their inception in 1996\, Drive-By Truckers have carved out a unique niche in the music scene with\ntheir raw\, unflinching storytelling\, heavy-hitting guitar riffs\, and blend of Alternative and Southern rock.\nFounded by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley\, Drive-By Truckers have released 14 studio albums and\nplayed more than 2\,500 shows over the last three decades. Notable members include long-time\ndrummer Brad Morgan and current members Jay Gonzalez and Matt Patton\, who have helped define\nthe band’s evolving sound. \nThe band’s work has often reflected the state of American society\, particularly through their celebrated\ntrilogy of albums — American Band (ATO\, 2016)\, The Unraveling (ATO\, 2020)\, and The New OK (ATO\,\n2020) — which marked a bold foray into politically charged and topical songwriting\, earning acclaim for\nits insightful commentary and fearless expression. \nIn 2022\, they released Welcome 2 Club XIII (ATO)\, an introspective look back at their early days and the\nrealities of adult life and parenting. The band continued revisiting key moments from their past with The\nComplete Dirty South in 2023 and the deluxe reissue of Southern Rock Opera in 2024\, followed by a\nreissue of American Band that reaffirmed the album’s ongoing cultural resonance. The deep-dive into\ntheir own legacy continues with the release of Definitive Decoration Day in November 2025\, a\ncomprehensive and expanded edition of their beloved 2003 album that first solidified them as one of\nAmerica’s great rock storytellers. \nAs they continue to push boundaries and explore new musical territories\, Drive-By Truckers remain a\nvital and dynamic force in rock music — celebrated for their powerful narratives\, unflinching honesty\,\nand unwavering dedication to their craft.
URL:https://wdvx.com/event/drive-by-truckers-mill-mine-2-17/
LOCATION:Mill & Mine\, 227 W Depot Ave\, Knoxville\, 37917\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,WDVX Supported Events
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