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Music, Knoxville Style
If you love Knoxville music, you won’t want to miss the 2nd Annual Knox at Night Benefit Wednesday, June 2. Starting at 8 p.m., you can pay $5 and get into eight clubs and one coffeeshop and see countless bands.
The benefit started to help pay the medical bills for a man who was beaten up in the Old City. It’s just the sort of antidote to combat such cruelty, and it’s a great way to promote what is good about our city. It’s also a great chance to check out some local music and get a taste of the various live music venues in the Old City.
The proceeds from this year’s event go toward the Knoxville Firefighters Association. Go support it so it continues. Here’s this year’s lineup.
Barley’s: Dixie Dirt, UmanoSumana, The Rockwells; Blue Cats: Red House, Glennon Andrews & Jacks of Trade, Limit 9, Natti Love Joys, Gypsy Hands Belly Dancers in the courtyard; Hanna’s Cafe: Mikel Grubb Band, Solace; Java: Senryu, Atropos; Lucille’s: Town Meeting, Leslie Woods & Dark Mountain Orchid, The New Randall Brown Quartet; Manhattan’s: Rob Russell & The Sore Losers, Todd Steed; Patrick Sullivan’s: Jescoe, Roddy Branch Bluegrass Band, Nug Jug; The Pilot Light: Washdown, The Westside Daredevils; Urban Bar & Corner Café: Brandy Robinson, Jodie Manross & Casey Jones, Kirk Fleta, Mitch Rutman Band.
Goodbye, Louise
Knoxville is losing another of its fine musicians to Nashville. Oh, a curse upon ye, dreaded Nashville!
This time around we’re losing Louise Mosrie, who sent us this note: “Well, after 17 years in the lovely city of Knoxville, it’s time to start a new chapter. Mark and I have been talking about moving somewhere for a few years and we finally decided on Nashville! So it’s not across the country but it seems a long, long way right now from our friends. We will be back often and I’ll be playing at Barley’s Pizza and Taproom on Sunday, June 6, at 8 p.m. if you’d like to come out and say hello. Thankfully, Anna and I will still play together. I’ll just be headquartered in the state’s capital as of this Friday.
If you know of any good restaurants or bookstores in Nashville, pass ‘em along! Thanks! and cheers to some great years in Knoxville.”
Goodbye and good luck.
Fistful of Music
Will Fist just might be the sexiest man in Knoxville. He’s certainly the busiest musician, playing in many bands (The Damn Creeps, Fistful of Crows, and The Electric Blues Band, among others) and running a label, Whisk-Hutzel Records. So it’s no surprise that he’s releasing a new record, this one with Fistful of Crows. You can see them play live at their CD release show Saturday, June 5, at the Pilot Light, with Haggus.
Go.
Thursday: This is the Sundown show many of us have been waiting for the most, featuring the amazing and ethereal Gillian Welch.
Friday: Malcolm Holcombe is playing at Barley’s once again, and once again you should go. Unless of course you’d rather check out the music of Sara Griscom, head Gypsy Hands Belly Dancer, at the Pilot Light.
Saturday: Saturday does indeed look good to me at the Pilot Light.
Sunday: Billy Joe Shaver writes those great beer-drinking songs. He’s from Texas, so we expect no less. See him at Barley’s. (And it’s nice to see another club stepping up and booking great music again.)
Monday: If you’ve got the day off, why not take a roadtrip to Vonore. Some great music awaits you at the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum for the Little Tennessee River Music Festival, featuring Robinella & the CCstringband, Blue Moon Rising, Blues Revolution and Dream Catcher.
Tuesday: Let those who have refused to sacrifice to the gods and obey the commands of the emperors be beaten and led away to suffer the punishment of beheading, in accordance to the laws.
Wednesday: Spread the love at the 2nd Annual Knox @ Night Benefit.
—Joe Tarr
May 27, 2004 • Vol. 14, No. 22
© 2004 Metro Pulse
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