Back Stage Indie Report

High Class Hillbilly fashion at 2017 "First Fridays" Every summer for the last 15 years, the city of Nashville has been lucky enough to have “Frist Fridays”. This is a weekly, seasonal concert series in the patio of the Frist Center for Visual Arts. It’s a spectacular evening of outstanding music, and if you need a break from the noise you can pop inside the museum and see all the visual art on display, included for free with the price of the concert ticket.   The Tennessee Dirtbags This past Friday August 25, South Carolina native Nikki Lane and her band “The Tennessee Dirtbags” headlined the event. She’s now local to Nashville and she’s widely known as one of this town’s best country and rock songwriters. Her third album Highway Queen is  a reflective album that goes all the way back to growing up in South Carolina, through the heartbreak of a failed marriage, coming to terms with love not lasting forever, and dealing with a loved one going through a cancer diagn...

NASHVILLE MUSIC REPORT – JEREMY PARSONS IS NOT A COWBOY Beginnings… If you saw a picture of Jeremy Parsons 6 years ago, you would not think it was the same person . He used to be clean-shaven, and wouldn’t play a show without a cowboy hat or his custom-made  Manuel suit. His first release, titled “Doggondest Feeling” was a traditional country piece of work, endorsed by  Little Jimmy Dickens . He spent the next couple years traveling the United States and Europe with Jett Williams , the infamous daughter of   Hank Williams Sr . He toured with the family as  an opening act, and garnered experience behind the scenes in a managerial role. He also got his first cut less than a year of being in Nashville after meeting  The Grascals  at a house party. They fell in love with the song “Out Comes The Sun” after Little Jimmy Dickens told them “you guys would be idiots if you didn’t cut that.” Jeremy was inspired by the fantastic “Americana” music com...

Nashville Report – Chris Canterbury Back Stage Indie Report Chris Canterbury I saw Chris Canterbury play for the first time at a local writer’s round in Nashville called Revival 615 .  Chris helps run this event every Tuesday at the Tin Roof on Demonbreun Street.  I was lucky because this was one of my first writer’s rounds after moving to Nashville, and it set the bar so high for all the other live music venues in town.  Nobody tells you this before moving to Nashville, but there’s a lot of BS in the music scene here.  There are a lot of people who just want to be famous and don’t focus on the art of the music.  Also, a lot of people who only write songs about girls in bikinis and drinking beer.  It can get exhausting listening to the local music scene night after night, but artists like Chris Canterbury are a refreshing exception. Chris...