
Today is the final day of the WDVX Fall Fund Drive , but there is still plenty of time to call or go online to support East Tennessee's Own listener supported community radio station. For those of you who aren't familiar with WDVX... It is a locally owned, non-commercial, Americana radio station dedicated to keeping real radio and real music on the air. I'd call it my favorite station even if I didn't work there as a DJ on Wednesday and Friday nights. You can listen on line at our website, wdvx.com . [...]

I've been thinking a lot about the jam band moe. this week. It actually started last week when I wrote my review of the new Great American Taxi album for Country Standard Time . GAT is fronted by Leftover Salmon's Vince Herman and has deep roots in jam band music. A couple of songs on that album greatly reminded me of moe.'s rock noodlings. Shortly after writing that, I received a copy of Jennie Arnau's new record [...]

We're going with a bit of a different sound today for ReviewShine Wednesday with the rock heavy music of Drunk on Crutches. The band's sound is primarily built around brash rock and roll guitars that contain just the right amount of swagger to place them perfectly in their home base of L.A. This isn't just some California vanity project, though. Listen closely, and you'll start to hear songwriter and vocalist Jennifer Whittenberg's Georgia roots begin to show. Maybe it was the wailing harmonica and the railing against the bright lights of [...]
Wednesday night at WDVX, I'll be joined on the air by local artist Greg Horne. Greg is known around town as a tremendous guitar player, and he just released his new album Basically Sane . I'll try to throw up a brief review of that album before he sits in with me Wednesday, but just in case I don't... here's a nice video of Greg performing live.