Blog: Barryfest

Last Tuesday, Simple Play Productions’ Ron Richard partnered with One Eyed Jacks to offer a symposium on all that is alive and well in Southern music.  Local wonder boys New Grass Country Club , Baltimore-by-way-of-Chattanoog a Southern gospel/ rock band J. Roddy Walston and the Business , and Athens Georgia’s alt-country group Futurebirds descended on the dimly lit red bordello of Jacks like a traveling revival.  Though each band’s aesthetic was unique, it’s safe to assume that all the musicians onstage have kissed their mamas in church, blacked out on whiskey and daydreamed about playing in [...]