Some more links and notes for another rainy day in Knoxville... * Above is a picture of Knoxville's Market Square. In days past, it was one of the central gathering places in the city and a major center of trade and commerce. Lately, it's heading in that direction again. The Square is one of my favorite places in the city due to its interesting shops and tremendous food options. I think my perfect day in Knoxville might just include breakfast at The Market Square Kitchen , brunch at La Costa , grabbing a small lunch from [...]
Just a few links to get you through the week... * Scott Miller has made his new CD For Crying Out Loud available for pre-order at his website . Only 1,000 copies will be offered between now and December 17th online and at Miller's shows... and once they're gone, they're gone. Orders placed before the 17th should arrive by Christmas. If you don't get in on the pre-order, then you have to wait until March for the official release. All pre-order copies also include an enhanced CD feature with a twenty minute video on the [...]
Just a short post here before I take a bit of a break for the holiday. I said on Friday that I planned to write more about Scott Miller in the coming weeks, and I am a man of my word. With that in mind, I bring you news that Scott Miller's sometimes hard to find album Are You with Me? has been made available for download at http://www.rawrip.com/ . Rawrip is a digital music store that gives 100% of the royalties made from sales directly to the artist. If you've become [...]
Here at WDVX, we have a tagline that we add to most of our station ID's and promo announcements. That tagline is "East Tennessee's Own," as in... "This is East Tennessee's Own, WDVX." We use it a lot. It's on our website . It's on our t-shirts. It's on our posters. It's said roughly 2,147 times a day on the air. It's a sort of branding that we use to distinguish ourselves from other stations and tell our listeners who we are and what we care about in three words or less. It's also a [...]
Every few years I fall head over heals all over again for The Loud Family 's (yes, that is a reference to THE Loud Family ) Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things (yes, that is a reference to America's (NOT NEIL YOUNG's) "Horse with No Name"). I guess my two years is up, because I've been listening on repeat again and also forcing people (like my poor friend Emily) to listen to them as well (if I'm going down, I'm taking you with me). While [...]
Scott Miller: I Made A Mess Of This Town [ purchase ] As a folk blogger, I pay close attention to good blogs with a regional focus and a tendency towards any music remotely resembling folk. After all, by its very definition, folk music is rooted deeply in its community, and most of the better communities (such as the mid-New England valley region that I call home) have more than enough going on to keep any blogger busy. As such, it becomes nigh impossible for any [...]
Gas prices in Knoxville hit $4.69 for a gallon of regular this afternoon and seem to still be on the way up. Several stations in town actually ran out of gas completely today. Here's an ode to gas-guzzlin' from Scott Miller. Scott Miller & The Commonwealth: Eight Miles a Gallon ( Buy Album )
Scott Miller and The Commonwealth: Goddamn The Sun [ purchase ] The Sun: Giver of light… Provider of Heat… It makes the roosters crow and the grass grow. It is the center of our solar system. A wondrous blazing ball that blesses the Earth with its light and warmth… The Sun. Hey, Scott Miller. How do you feel about the Sun? Submitted by Nelson
"I am behind the times. But not so far that I don't realize the futility of making a 'regional' record in a 'global' world. By looking at my past, not just of my life but of my family, I can gather clues to what makes me as I am." --Scott Miller If you don't know Scott Miller , a brief history lesson is in order. In the mid-to-late 1990s, he co-fronted The V-Roys , a blast furnace of kickass rock 'n' roll, like a slightly [...]
Just another fall day for many, but to college football aficionados and particularly to fans of the University of Tennessee Volunteers and the Alabama Crimson Tide , this day is a holy day. A day by which your season and thus the rest of the year is measured. Sure there are bigger games for both teams, but none that possesses the history and fanfare. This is the game that legends are made of. The series began in 1901 in Birmingham, a game that ended in a [...]
A Fifty Cent Lighter & A Whiskey Buzz
One Sweet Song
Star Maker Machine
Here Comes The Flood
Visions and Revisions
Video: 2:54 - "Creeping"
Sleeve: “1991″ by Azealia Banks
Tango In the Attic: "Sellotape"
