Smoky Mountain News, Arts and Entertainment Editor, Garret K. Woodward was excited to discuss upcoming music festivals across Western North Carolina. Garret, who also contributes stories to Rolling Stone Magazine, provided the Friday Feature with a rundown of shows he plans to attend and some of the musicians he hopes to interview.
In the mid-1960s, when Bill Allsbrook was a med school student at Duke University in Durham, he decided to pick up the banjo. “I messed with the.
Vince Herman is out to have some fun. 33 years after founding Leftover Salmon, Vince released an album of his own and hit the road to play a batch of songs developed in his new Nashville home. It’s a bit of a departure from the “Salmon sound” as he digs into his idea of what country music is. There’s some bluegrass and Cajun influences and honky tonk ballads all piled atop great players taking the tunes for a ride.