A look into many of the acts performing during the festival by Wayne Bledsoe, Daniel Britt, John F ...
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Blank’s Big Ears Guide – 2024
Blank’s Big Ears Guide – 2024
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Sounds of the city – Knoxville is Big Ears Festival’s secret weapon, according to Ashley Capps
Sounds of the city – Knoxville is Big Ears Festival’s secret weapon, according to Ashley Capps
Big Ears founder Ashley Capps interview • Madame Weezy's Big Ears Horoscopes • Previews From a purely lo ...
Big Ears founder Ashley Capps interview • Madame Weezy's Big Ears Horoscopes • Previews From a purely logistical standpoint, Big Ears Festival is an East Tennessee success story that’s unparalleled i ...
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Channel Pressure provides a Big Ears bonus
Channel Pressure provides a Big Ears bonus
Local musician curates a day of free sets at Local Smokey For several years, Brandon Biondo seemed to be ...
Local musician curates a day of free sets at Local Smokey For several years, Brandon Biondo seemed to be everywhere. A fixture in The Pilot Light scene of bands and musicians that eschewed conventiona ...
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The Business of Music in Knoxville
The Business of Music in Knoxville
It’s not called music friends; it’s called the music business. If you’ve spent any time or energy in the ...
It’s not called music friends; it’s called the music business. If you’ve spent any time or energy in the presentation of amplified noise, you’ve probably heard this phrase. And it’s true. When you fir ...
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Blank’s Knoxville Music Calendar • Feb 16th – March 16th
Blank’s Knoxville Music Calendar • Feb 16th – March 16th
Find out what's happening in Knoxville tonight. Friday, February 16th Rocknfellers at Ale’ Rae’s T ...
Find out what's happening in Knoxville tonight. Friday, February 16th Rocknfellers at Ale’ Rae’s Tommy Prine at Barley’s Erick Baker at the Bijou Theatre Tray Wellington Band at Jig & Reel ...
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What’s new keeps him on the move – An Interview with Joe Bonamassa
What’s new keeps him on the move – An Interview with Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa’s name is practically synonymous with the core of modern blues. While he offers abject appr ...
Joe Bonamassa’s name is practically synonymous with the core of modern blues. While he offers abject appreciation for its roots and those that pioneered the idiom early on, he’s made it a point to mov ...
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Outkast’s Andre 3000 joins Big Ears lineup, Schedule Released, Live Painting from Steve Keene and more
Outkast’s Andre 3000 joins Big Ears lineup, Schedule Released, Live Painting from Steve Keene and more
"It's like, cool to be from the south right about now." The 2024 Big Ears Festival, which will take place ...
"It's like, cool to be from the south right about now." The 2024 Big Ears Festival, which will take place throughout the extended downtown Knoxville area during March 21 – 24, has added André 3000 to ...
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Handsome and the Humbles release revelatory new batch of songs
Handsome and the Humbles release revelatory new batch of songs
Handsome, humble and now ... compellingly peculiar ‘Gerbil in the Wild’ finds Americana band out on the e ...
Handsome, humble and now ... compellingly peculiar ‘Gerbil in the Wild’ finds Americana band out on the edge When a new song by Handsome and the Humbles shows up in your inbox, you have certain expect ...
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Blank’s Knoxville Music Calendar – Jan 13th – Feb 10th
Blank’s Knoxville Music Calendar – Jan 13th – Feb 10th
Saturday, January 13th Jason Carter at Barley's Back N Black at the Bijou Theatre Ceilidh Doon at ...
Saturday, January 13th Jason Carter at Barley's Back N Black at the Bijou Theatre Ceilidh Doon at Jig & Reel Nirvani at Open Chord Lowtown at The Pilot Light Pretty Tied Up at Preservation ...
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An Attitude of Gratitude: J.C. Haun returns to Waynestock a changed man
An Attitude of Gratitude: J.C. Haun returns to Waynestock a changed man
It was both the harshest thing and the most inspiring thing Stacy Haun ever said to her husband, a ...
It was both the harshest thing and the most inspiring thing Stacy Haun ever said to her husband, and without a doubt, it changed the course of J.C. Haun’s recovery from a life-altering ATV acci ...
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Blank’s December – January Knoxville Music Calendar
Blank’s December – January Knoxville Music Calendar
Thursday, December 14th Josh Oliver at Barley’s Rodney Crowell at the Bijou Theatre Way Below at The Pilo ...
Thursday, December 14th Josh Oliver at Barley’s Rodney Crowell at the Bijou Theatre Way Below at The Pilot Light Mojohand at Preservation Pub Eiriel at Scruffy City Hall Friday, December 15th Rebel Mo ...
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Runnin’ up that hill – Connor Kelly and the Time Warp have a plan, and Knoxville will always be a part of it
Runnin’ up that hill – Connor Kelly and the Time Warp have a plan, and Knoxville will always be a part of it
For those who answer to its higher calling, those road-to-Damascus moments when the majesty and power of ...
For those who answer to its higher calling, those road-to-Damascus moments when the majesty and power of rock ‘n’ roll are revealed in life-changing ways are burned into their brains for a lifetime. C ...
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Home Sweet Home – Knox rockers reflect on planting a flag in East Tennessee
Home Sweet Home – Knox rockers reflect on planting a flag in East Tennessee
Back in the day, the much-vaunted V-Roys wrote a rollicking little ditty called “Can’t Shake Knoxville,” ...
Back in the day, the much-vaunted V-Roys wrote a rollicking little ditty called “Can’t Shake Knoxville,” borrowing heavily from “Jailhouse Rock” to convey a sentiment that’s pervasive among musicians ...
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Art for art’s sake
Art for art’s sake
Knoxville-based Gezellig Records specializes in niche world music For Ben TO Smith, music is a calling. F ...
Knoxville-based Gezellig Records specializes in niche world music For Ben TO Smith, music is a calling. From his salaried position as a concert production manager for Live Nation (formerly AC Entertai ...
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Live review: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers w/ Scott H. Biram and Molly Martin
Live review: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers w/ Scott H. Biram and Molly Martin
Explosive alt-country lineup ignites Barley's on a Thursday night Bill Foster, our intrepid photog ...
Explosive alt-country lineup ignites Barley's on a Thursday night Bill Foster, our intrepid photographer who captured the images you see here, took a break from shooting another gig down the st ...
| by Matt Rankin