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After spending about twenty-leven hours today working on a couple of new features for the blog, I’m going to let them be the news for the day. If you’ll look at the top of the blog you will see a link...
View ArticleYoung People Playing (Very) Old Music, Part One
Thanks to the snow, I was able to catch a couple of Blue Plate Specials recently. Both featured young bands fronted by talented, personable singers. They also featured very retro-music. I talked about...
View ArticleYoung People Playing (Very) Old Music, Part Two
Hilary Hawke and band, Knoxville Visitor’s Center, January 2010 The second artist I heard recently at the Blue Plate Special was Hilary Hawke. She and her band are from upstate New York and their...
View ArticleFred Eaglesmith with High Kotton at the Blue Plate Special
How could you improve the live radio concerts hosted weekdays at noon on WDVX for several years now? Add a weekend show, that’s how. Many of us can’t be downtown at noon, but judging from the crowd in...
View ArticleCivil Wars Erupts in Knoxville
Not the Civil War – the Civil Wars. Never heard of them? You must be really old. Like maybe twenty-six or seven. Judging from the audience assembled for their performance, the demographic definitely...
View ArticleThis is Why I Live in the City
Actually, this won’t be a manifesto listing all the reasons, complications and negotiations involved in a decision that big, but I just had the kind of night that can’t be had outside a city. Maybe...
View ArticleWhat’s that Sound in the Distance?
Have you ever had the experience of hearing music in the distance and realizing it isn’t your neighbor’s stereo or a distant boombox, but real, honest to goodness music played by live musicians? What...
View ArticleHigh Art in the City: First Friday, Take Two
Pamela Neal creation, Emporium, Knoxville, April 2011 Every First Friday features art with a capital “A.” The Art Market features an artist each month and somehow I usually miss that, so I’m planning...
View ArticleMusic in London and Paris
After that small diversion for food, how about we continue our August with a musical lift to our spirits? Hopefully this is the month the sidewalks stop melting, air-quality alerts cease to depress us...
View ArticleMarket Square Farmers’ Market
Fresh Peppers at the Market Square Farmers’ Market It’s getting late in the year and some time has passed since I’ve mentioned the Market Square Farmers’ Market. At the beginning of the season I...
View ArticleKnoxville Marathon 2013
It’s hard to know at the end of this week whether I should continue recounting last weekend or move the focus to the upcoming weekend. I’ll go with last weekend, but I must mention that this weekend is...
View ArticleYoung People Playing (Very) Old Music, Part One
Thanks to the snow, I was able to catch a couple of Blue Plate Specials recently. Both featured young bands fronted by talented, personable singers. They also featured very retro-music. I talked about...
View ArticleYoung People Playing (Very) Old Music, Part Two
Hilary Hawke and band, Knoxville Visitor’s Center, January 2010 The second artist I heard recently at the Blue Plate Special was Hilary Hawke. She and her band are from upstate New York and their...
View ArticleFred Eaglesmith with High Kotton at the Blue Plate Special
How could you improve the live radio concerts hosted weekdays at noon on WDVX for several years now? Add a weekend show, that’s how. Many of us can’t be downtown at noon, but judging from the crowd in...
View ArticleCivil Wars Erupts in Knoxville
Not the Civil War – the Civil Wars. Never heard of them? You must be really old. Like maybe twenty-six or seven. Judging from the audience assembled for their performance, the demographic definitely...
View ArticleThis is Why I Live in the City
Actually, this won’t be a manifesto listing all the reasons, complications and negotiations involved in a decision that big, but I just had the kind of night that can’t be had outside a city. Maybe...
View ArticleWhat’s that Sound in the Distance?
Have you ever had the experience of hearing music in the distance and realizing it isn’t your neighbor’s stereo or a distant boombox, but real, honest to goodness music played by live musicians? What...
View ArticleHigh Art in the City: First Friday, Take Two
Pamela Neal creation, Emporium, Knoxville, April 2011 Every First Friday features art with a capital “A.” The Art Market features an artist each month and somehow I usually miss that, so I’m planning...
View ArticleMusic in London and Paris
After that small diversion for food, how about we continue our August with a musical lift to our spirits? Hopefully this is the month the sidewalks stop melting, air-quality alerts cease to depress us...
View ArticleMarket Square Farmers’ Market
Fresh Peppers at the Market Square Farmers’ Market It’s getting late in the year and some time has passed since I’ve mentioned the Market Square Farmers’ Market. At the beginning of the season I...
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