Calendar of Events

Set sail for laughter as Bertie Wooster revels in life aboard the Vanderley yacht. Bertie is the pampered guest of the lively Lady Stella (very fetching profile), accompanied, as always, by his peerless valet, Jeeves. If only Bertie’s pal Crumpet hadn’t assaulted a prince. In the blink of an eye, Bertie is masquerading as a romance novelist, Crumpet’s posing as his own long-lost twin, and a sinister foreign count is challenging Bertie to a duel. Will this madcap case of mistaken identities end in Bertie’s doom–or worse, his marriage? Have no fear; Jeeves will sort it all out.

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“Moments With Paul”
Greenlee Theatre at MACA
Friday Feb. 1 & Sat. Feb. 2 | 7:30pm
Tickets available at mcdowellarts.org or
over the phone at 828-652-8610

Paul Robeson was a towering figure in 20th century arts and culture. Actor, singer, lawyer, athlete, scholar and activist, he was challenging boundaries and expectations in Jim Crow America long before the Civil Rights era. But his prominence, race, and outspoken left wing politics also made him a target, and his dramatic story embodies both triumph and tragedy.

“Moments With Paul”, a musical and spoken play based on the life of the world-famous Robeson. Produced by United in Music, Inc., the show will be performed at the MACA on Friday Feb 1 & Sat Feb 2 at 7:30pm

The show stars Jason McKinney as Robeson, the African-American Renaissance man who rose to prominence in multiple arenas at a time when racism and segregation was rampant in the United States. Robeson used his fame as a performer to become a voice for people who were marginalized both at home and abroad. Despite a hugely successful career on stage and in films and international popularity, he was eventually silenced and his career effectively ended by prejudice and McCarthyism. Mr. McKinney is joined on stage by Christopher Bagley portraying Robeson’s accompanist, Lawrence Brown.

“Moments With Paul” sheds light on the life of this courageous, influential and complex man whose message remains particularly relevant for today’s audiences. It brings attention to the important Robeson legacy which for too long had faded into the shadows of American lore.

https://www.facebook.com/events/362286737920623/

Limited seating so call for reservations!! Entrees, craft beer and wine served starting at 6:30. Show starts at 7:30. Please share with your friends! You don’t want to miss this!

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Join us every first Sunday of the month for this 75 minute donation-based workshop from 8-9:15pm. $1-$10 sliding scale donations encouraged, all proceeds go directly to the instructor. Arrive a little early for your first visit to the studio (7:30pm) to find parking & sign your waiver. No sign-up required, read more below…

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Empyrean Arts instructor Maddy Battles invites our LGBTQIA+ friends and their friends to an evening of aerial fundamentals and playtime jam. Expect light instruction & guided exploration of the aerial arts. Open to all queer, trans, & non-binary humans ages 14+ as well as 1 friend. Attendees under the age of 18 must be dropped off by a legal guardian for their first visit to the studio. No sign-up required – just bring your fab self and a friend every first Sunday of the month at 8pm for a fun & affordable 75 minute circus workshop / safe space. $1-$10 sliding scale donation for the instructor’s time.

https://www.facebook.com/events/225698498357332/?event_time_id=225698501690665

Aquila Theatre in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — Friday, February 1, 2019, 8:00 p.m.
Mary Shelley’s 1818 famed novel Frankenstein comes alive on stage. Aquila Theatre has adapted this timeless classic into a bold and thrilling performance. Friday, February 1, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Tickets: Regular $40; Student $35; Child $20; Student Rush Day-of-Show (with valid I.D.) $10. Box Office: 828-257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

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When legendary folk music icon Arlo Guthrie took to the road to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of his seminal song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” he was incredibly moved by the feedback from enthusiastic fans.

His forthcoming tour, Alice’s Restaurant — Back By Popular Demand, will coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the feature film “Alice’s Restaurant,” originally released in 1969, starring Arlo as himself, directed by famed director Arthur Penn, who was nominated for a Best Director Academy Award.

Guthrie will be joined by his son Abe as well as longtime collaborators Terry “A La Berry” Hall (drums), Steve Ide (guitar, vocals) and Carol Ide (vocals, percussion) of his former acclaimed band Shenandoah. Arlo’s daughter Sarah Lee Guthrie, a lauded singer-songwriter in her own right, will open the shows.

In July 2017 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the “Summer of Love” and the original release of Arlo’s debut album, Rhino Records re-released the full mono version of the album Alice’s Restaurant on 180 gram vinyl. In March 2018, the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress inducted “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” into the registry honoring the recording for its cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the American soundscape.

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Aubrey Eisenman and The Clydes Pre Release Album Show at Ambrose West

WHEN: Friday February 1, 2019
WHERE: Ambrose West 312 Haywood Road Asheville, NC 28806
DOORS: 7pm
SHOW: 8pm
SEATING: Seated Show
AGES: All Ages
TICKETS: Advance $12 // Day of Show $15

https://www.facebook.com/events/272294126795955/

Vvitchgang Coven showcase at The Mothlight in Asheville
Hang out with Vvitchgang Coven for a magickal night of hip hop live performance and Dj’s
This is a benefit show- all proceeds will go to Blue Ridge ABC

live Performances by
Vvitchboy (ft. Akuma)
Scarlaween
CWO
Herb da Wizard

Dj sets by
Jagger
XOR

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An evening featuring Burial Beer Co, Westbrook Brewing Co., Great Notion Brewing and Barrelhouse and Mikerphone Brewing.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1983991984989905/

Carver and Carmody is an acoustic musical duo specializing in blues, country and original material.

www.reverbnation.com/carvercarmody

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Where it all started…join Carver & Carmody for great craft beer and more at SAB!

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Derek McCoy -Guitar
Tim Winter -Bass
We will be joined by a very special guest on this gig. The extraordinary Eric Sanders will be here all the way from Atlanta to fill in for Nikao on drums.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2212280705714078/

We had epic show last time, it’ll be even better for this one !!

https://www.facebook.com/events/598151587306336/

Doors – 8pm
Show – 9pm
Cover – $5.00
Featuring, TRUSTY HUCKSTERS,
The aisles of Jane Doe, & Earth Collider!!!?????

https://www.facebook.com/events/360937911370660/

Pisgah Brewing welcomes Lazybirds to the Taproom stage.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2019
GENRE: Old-time Jazz, Blues and Swing
FREE SHOW | START: 8PM | TAPROOM STAGE
FOOD TRUCK: TBA

Lazybirds is a classic American roots band from the mountains of North Carolina. Specializing in good time music that is just about impossible not to move to, there is also a depth to the band that faithful fans have treasured over the years. According to the legendary Doc Watson, “Lazybirds play a good variety of blues, jazz, and that good old ragtime sound, and you will hear the flavor of that in anything they play.” The ‘Birds cover a lot of musical ground, from early American stringband music to Dylan classics, as well as classic sounding originals, but deep roots are what hold all of these sounds together.

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Lit Lords
Freaky
Rivalution
Dj Feeva

2.1.2019
Bit.ly/TF-LITLORDS
$10 online
$15 DOS
+$5 under 21

Doors at 8 pm

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Born and raised in Greenville, SC, singer-songwriter Mark Webb Jr carries a tender voice and unique timbre that embodies real Americana. Taking inspiration from life experiences, overheard conversations and current events, Mark writes and curates songs that echo the cuts, bruises and blossoms of life.

Signing to Gold Ship Records, Mark released his debut EP, Home, on July 8th. He quickly made No Depression’s list of “Rookies on the Rise” for 2016.

Mark has shared the stage with musicians such as American Aquarium, Turnpike Troubadours, Jill Andrews, Justin Townes Earle, and more. He’s also had the pleasure of co-writing with Ted Russell Kamp and Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba. The collaborative track was released early this year on Dashboard’s newest album, ‘Crooked Shadows,’.

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What better way to show your love (or your crush) how you feel about them on Valentine’s Day than giving them a cheesy picture of you!?! Join us for the PBR PORTRAIT PARTY!!

We will provide the cheesy outfits and props. There will also be professional hair and make up artists as well as a photographer who will edit your photos just in time for your romantic night!
NO COVER! Donations for services strongly encouraged <3

PBR Alex will bring the PBR swag and will be providing the soundtrack for this special event! PBR Specials and prizes will be had! LET’S PARTY!!

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Join Asheville Favorite, Lyric at the Wicked Weed Funkatorium every first Friday of the month!

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Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
plus The Fritz
Show: 830pm **EARLY START**
Doors: 8pm
$20 – $25
Ages 18+

Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/pigeons-playing-ping-pong/

“We pour every ounce of ourselves into every note when we perform live,” says Pigeons Playing Ping Pong singer/guitarist Greg Ormont. “When we’re recording in the studio, we try to maintain that euphoria while finding a way to pack it into a tight, focused vessel. Each song becomes like a spring-loaded can of worms: there’s all this energy boxed up in a neat little package, and then when you come see us live, the cap comes off and the contents fly out in every direction like fireworks.”

It’s a whimsically apt metaphor for Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, a band whose very existence is rooted in the unyielding quest for joy and positive energy. Blending infectious funk grooves, psychedelic jams, and experimental electronics, the Baltimore four-piece’s new album, ‘Pizazz,’ is a buoyant, blissful reminder of just how much fun music can be. Eschewing the traditional funk band lineup that typically includes keyboards, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong constructs effervescent soundscapes with just two guitars, bass, and drums, crafting their music with a sophisticated ear for both open space and dense layering.

While ‘Pizazz’ is, in many ways, a familiar continuation of the journey that’s earned the band its rapidly expanding and rabidly devoted following (known as The Flock), it also marks the beginning of a new chapter for Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. The album’s eleven tracks are the group’s first recorded with new drummer Alex Petropulos, whose airtight grooves and explosive power push the band’s sound to new heights.

“We’ve had some of these songs in our live catalog for a while,” says Ormont, “but playing them with Alex has breathed new life into everything. His style and energy have revealed nooks and crannies that we didn’t even realize existed in the tracks. All music boils down to having a good drummer, especially in our dance-oriented jam world, and we’ve got the best drummer I’ve ever heard right now.”

It’s a bold claim, but Pigeons Playing Ping Pong has the live show to back it up. Glide Magazine called them “a band that melts faces and pulls no punches,” while C-Ville Weekly praised the growing “cult around [their] high-energy music, goofy stage antics, and all around good vibes,” and JamBase raved that guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Schon is “destined to become one of our generation’s finest guitarists.” Since the group’s inception nearly a decade ago at the University of Maryland (where the band’s name came to Ormont and Schon during a moment of transcendence in Psych 100), they’ve built up a reputation as one of the most engaging and life-affirming acts on the road, maintaining a relentless tour schedule that has them performing up to 200 shows a year and hitting festivals from coast to coast. The band even founded their own gathering, Domefest, which recently celebrated its eighth year and attracted nearly 2,000 members of The Flock for an immersive weekend of love, music, and community.

“It’s really important that our live show puts out as much energy as possible and promotes lightheartedness and positivity,” says Schon. “All that matters in the moment at a concert is what’s going on onstage and in the room around you, and we try to put on a show where people can really lose themselves in those moments and use our music as an outlet to feel good.”

The band chased those same ideals when they headed into producer Steve Wright’s WrightWay Studios in Baltimore to record ‘Pizazz,’ the follow-up to their 2016 fan-favorite ‘Pleasure.’ Tracking live on the floor, the foursome channeled all the rapture of their live shows into tight, crisp packages. Songs that may unfold onstage over the course of 20 minutes were reimagined for the studio, where they’d need to reach the same frenzied, emotional heights, in less than half that time.

“I think this album really shows attention to detail when it comes to choosing our moments and the way we’ve been able to make parts more concise without losing their natural feel,” says Ormont. “Having a strong drummer is a big part of that. Alex is able to convey so much feeling and bring us to those peaks and valleys really quickly and efficiently when we need him to.”

‘Pizazz’ opens up with the bouncing, carefree “Fun In Funk,” which finds the band proclaiming, “We put the fun in funk” over wah-wah guitars and an infectious rhythm section driven both by Petropulos’s drums and Ben Carrey’s fat, slinky bass lines.

“Funk is very fun, upbeat, happy music to begin with,” says Ormont. “It’s our mission to put that fun into everything we do.”

It’s a mission that Pigeons Playing Ping Pong was born for. The visceral sense of joy in their music acts as a sort of glue here, binding the band’s wildly versatile sounds into a cohesive and distinctive whole on the album. On “Somethin For Ya,” they channel 70’s disco and pair it with a wicked prog-rock solo, while tracks like “Offshoot” and “Too Long” embrace the group’s darker, more bass-and-electronics-influenced dance side. “Poseidon” and frequent show-closer “Ocean Flows,” on the other hand, showcase Pigeons’ bright, sparkling, melodic soul, as ‘Pizazz’ rises and falls with the same inimitable mix of precision and frenzy that defines the band’s one-of-a-kind live show.

Each Pigeon is a virtuosic musician and improviser in his own right, and the band’s songs are frequently born out of impromptu grooves and riffs. The swirling, trippy “Porcupine,” which clocks in at nearly eight minutes in all its jamming glory, taps into the uninhibited, open-ended nature of the band’s rehearsal sessions, while the driving “Henrietta” grew out of one of Schon’s soundcheck guitar loops. The island vibes of “Fox and Toad” are pure stream of consciousness written in the car after band practice, and “Doc” is a gritty, horn-fueled sing-along inspired by a Baltimore legend.

“There’s a homeless man named Doc who would always spend his time outside of the 8×10 club in Federal Hill, where we learned to push our limits as a band,” says Ormont. “Doc always supported us. Even though he was sleeping under a bridge, he’d always ask you how you were doing. We really wanted to commemorate his toughness and positivity.”

It’s difficult to think of a more fitting match for a band like Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, who radiate positivity wherever they go. Whether it’s Doc or The Flock, the band wants to elevate each and every member of their audience to the kind of blissful place that only the most ecstatic live music can take you. It’s a place filled with beauty and light, joy and power, love and community, all delivered with a heaping dose of pizazz.

www.pigeonsplayingpingpong.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnkvsqXM1U

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You wanted Friday night comedy…. so here it is. And a Benefit for Boxer Butts and Other Mutts.

Like Comedy? Like Ventriloquism? Like magic? Want it all in one show??? We have got you covered.

21+ Only, tickets available now.

John “Gemini” Lombardi was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. With his quick sense of humor and witty personality, Gemini decided to start performing at the young age of eleven. He took his act to streets of New York City, where his only audience was a crowd of passersby and neighbors. With his energetic charisma and quick wit, he brought the crowd to tears of laughter. It was then he began his professional career in comedy. John’s ambitions led him on a successful climb to the top where he began to study acting, dance, and choreography to enhance his ebullient comedic talent.

“I do a little bit of comedy and a little bit of magic.

What you laugh at, that’s the comedy. What you don’t, well, that’s the magic.”

Today, Gemini has performed on Fox5, NBC, and at hundreds of comedy clubs, casinos, resorts, and theatres across the country. Gemini has been called the “Maestro of Magic & Laughter,” because of his magic, his jokes, the way he reads the audience and his unique style of showmanship. Gemini is also an accomplished ventriloquist, with several “friends” that keep the audience in the palm of his hand.

https://www.facebook.com/events/554020958356734/

The Gypsy Swingers are an up tempo jazz quintet playing in a style reminiscent of the European swing jazz scene started by Django Reinhardt in the ’30s featuring diverse vocal styles in an acoustic format. Lady Q sings everything from Latin standards to New Orleans blues and plays the kazoo and light percussion. Mario Piccolo plays a Selmer style guitar working off the rhythms created by Magic Sean (guitar) and Craig Sandberg on bass.

Appreciated by young and old, dancers or just sitters, Gypsy Swingers music is just fun! Music starts at 8:30pm!
http://www.reverbnation.com/thegypsyswingers

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Welcome to 10th & Groove!

Special Guest – Ricci Rain (AVL)

Ricci is excited to explore the groove and reach beyond his usual repertoire and dig DEEP into his library to find the magic to share with you!

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https://m.soundcloud.com/rickii-2

Hosted by Captain EZ

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Captain EZ – The Vibe Conductor
Curator of the PIMP SMOOTH​ sound.

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Think genre bending horn driven brassy hip hop funk; glitchy liquid future bass; international ghetto soul; and much more…

Captain EZ ​started DJing in 2000 in Boston and has always worked tirelessly behind the scenes producing and curating underground events. He can rock any time slot for any kind of vibe necessary. Whether it’s late night or early morning,

Captain EZ – The Vibe Conductor​ will lay down the correct vibe. He is a tone-setter and is always fine-tuning the science and practice of what it takes to open up an event.

Fondly referred to as the Stepfather of Funk​, Captain EZ​ has shared the stage with nationally touring acts including
Defunk, Desert Dwellers, Govinda, Kaminanda, Kayla Scintilla, Mark Farina, Ott, The Funk Hunters, Too Many Zooz, and many more.

Captain EZ​ has also performed at many burns, festivals, and other large or marquee events such as Alchemy, Asheville Full Moon Gatherings, ​Asheville Santacon, Burning Man, Euphoria, Five Elements Festival, Kinnection Campout, Living Asheville Arts Festival, Pangea, Serendipity, The Happening AVL, and Transformus. He has played venues both large and small throughout the Southeast and Northeast. Come see him at one of his monthly residencies.

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Your favorite Friday night gig will go on stage at 9pm every Friday!

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Brent Cobb & Them: Sucker For A Good Time Tour at The Grey Eagle with special guests The Maggie Valley Band

Brent Cobb didn’t set out to write an album that feels and sounds like the place he grew up. But now that the grooves have been cut in his debut LP, Shine on Rainy Day, there’s no denying the people, the places and the vibe of his southcentral Georgia home infuse almost every song.

“It just is Georgia,” Brent says in his musical drawl. “It’s just that rural, easy-going way it feels down there on a nice spring evening when the wind’s blowing warm and you smell wisteria, you know?”

It’s quiet down there where he’s from in Ellaville — “population 1,609” — laid back and forgotten in the shadow of Atlanta and Savannah. The people have blue-collar values and believe in treating your neighbor like you want to be treated. They believe in curses and the dark finger of Fate and wield a sharp, dark sense of humor that sustains them through the hardest of times. Distant radio stations, roadside honkytonks made of cinderblock and back-porch picking sessions heavy on the backbeat predominate under Spanish moss-strewn live oaks and loblolly pines.

It was the perfect place to grow up.

“Lord, when I die, let’s make a deal,” Brent sings on the album’s swirling thesis statement, “South of Atlanta,” “lay me down in that town where time stands still.”

Shine on Rainy Day is an album Brent’s been trying to make for a decade, enlisting his cousin and fellow Georgian, Dave Cobb, the Grammy Award-winning producer whose Elektra Records imprint Low Country Sound is home to the album.

Brent wanted to record an album that felt Southern, though not the kind of Southern you might expect. Neither Southern rock nor mainstream country, the sound sits somewhere on the wide bandwidth that exists between the two. Cousin Dave helped him find the right vibe, full of blue-eyed soul, country funk and the kind of swamp boogie sounds that predominated pop in the 1960s and early 1970s. There’s a reason Georgia was always on Ray Charles’ mind, after all.

“I don’t mean to get weird and be into, like, deep shit, but it really has got to be blood,” Brent said. “When I write songs, it’s almost like I didn’t write them. You know it’s just like this is happening right now and it just comes out. He’s the same way in the studio. He’s like, ‘Put this right here and play it like this,’ and you’re like why? And he’s like, ‘I don’t know, it’s just the way it’s supposed to go.’ That’s exactly how I write songs.”

Brent finds it a strange sensation to be so closely linked to someone. Though cousins, the Cobbs didn’t know each other growing up. Dave’s a little bit older than 29-year-old Brent and his father was the one brother who left the area and moved away — to an island off the coast from Savannah. So when they first met — as adults at an aunt’s funeral — Brent was wary. And a little bit of an ass.

“We’re standing around outside and I was like, ‘Man, we hear you’re producing in L.A. What you produced?’ just kind of like a jerk, really,” Brent said with a laugh. “He told me Shooter Jennings’ ‘Put the O Back in Country,’ and that floored me, man. Because me and my buddies working at a tree service, we’d get off work, somebody would get a 12 pack, we’d get stoned and listen to ‘Put the O Back in Country,’ man. We knew it was the cool country. We knew it was for real. Man, I mean it was the shit.”

Brent’s dad shamelessly slipped Dave a disc of six acoustic songs Brent recorded as he left town. Dave didn’t really want to listen to it, but his wife, Lydia, convinced him to stick it in the car’s player on the way to the airport. Not long after Jennings called and invited Brent out to Los Angeles.

He spent four months there, but after living through an earthquake, a drought, a near car-jacking and a drive-by shooting he returned home where he lived for about four months before an old acquaintance from the area, Luke Bryan, called out of the blue. Bryan invited Brent to stay with him and his wife for a week to write and get to know Nashville.

Not long after he returned for good and recorded a well-received EP that led to 3½ years on the road, touring with a band and opening for every big player in country. He decided that wasn’t what he was looking for either, and began to focus more deeply on songwriting. He landed several cuts — most notably Miranda Lambert’s “Old Shit,” Kenny Chesney’s “Don’t It” and Bryan’s “Tailgate Blues”- while working on his own songs and searching for a direction for his long-delayed debut.

Meanwhile, Dave left L.A. for Nashville and began building a reputation as one of music’s most exciting producers for his work with Chris Stapleton, Jamey Johnson, Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell. As part of his deal with Elektra, he conceived of a concept album called Southern Family and thought it only right his “bitch ass little cousin” have a part. “So I was like, ‘I’ll be there,'” Brent said. He contributed “Down Home” to the album and also mentioned the project to Lambert, who wanted in and sang the Brent-written “Sweet By & By,” a standout on an album full of them.

It was during these sessions that the Cobbs began to notice a real connection in the way they would approach songs during the recording process. “It just felt like home, you know?” Brent said. “I made the comment, ‘Dude, let’s just do it.’ So we did.”

From the Nashville slice-of-life narrative of “Solving Problems” to the delicate and powerful interplay of acoustic and electric guitars on the stunning closer “Black Crow,” the album feels like the people, places and sounds of Brent’s life.

The album carries something of a Southern Gothic narrative, alternating between dark visions and self-deprecating scenes of black humor that bubble up in laugh-or-cry moments. He chose the album’s title after a friend heard “Shine on Rainy Day” following a family tragedy and mentioned how powerful it was to him.

“When you have a bad storm that hits, the next day the trees are in full bloom and the grass is greener and lightning cleans the air up,” Brent said. “My friend called me up out of the blue and said that song hit him so hard. It’s talking about a rainy day, they’re going through a real life rainy day.”

Like “Shine on Rainy Day,” the album alternates between light and dark. In “Black Crow,” a doomed soul argues with a laughing crow sitting on a fencepost, “Black crow, I ain’t a joke no more!,” before earning a prison sentence in a corner store robbery. “Lord,” he sings, “I can feel those spirits carrying me down” before Jason Isbell unleashes a devilish slide guitar line that feels like a Neil Young guitar solo.

The deliciously self-deprecating “Diggin’ Holes” has that giddy AM radio/Gram Parsons feel with dancing music accompanied by dark lyrics that are both funny and painful. “I ought to be workin’ in a coal mine/Lord knows I’m good at diggin’ holes.”

“Down in the Gulley” is a sour mash-flavored short story with a first line worthy of Faulkner or O’Connor: “My granddaddy was a good man — no matter what the papers said.” The dread-filled “Let the Rain Come Down” opens with visions of doom, a rattlesnake strung from a tree and a witch’s curse: “She put a curse on me/Another on the river/And now my crops won’t grow no more.”

“Solving Problems” was written sitting on a balcony overlooking an especially historic corner of historic Music Row while thinking about Kris Kristofferson’s “To Beat the Devil,” which has a spoken word section that feels lifted right from the Row.

“The energy just feels crazy around here,” Brent said. “I loved how Kristofferson would capture the present moment of his Nashville during that time. Nobody does that anymore.”

“Country Bound” is the only song on the album not written or co-written by Brent. Instead, the song was written by his father and uncle in a far-off place called Cleveland.

“It was the first song I ever witnessed being written in my life,” Brent said. “I was 5 years old and it was the first time I ever saw snow, too. We were up in Cleveland for Christmas. My uncle had been through this breakup and he was wanting to get the hell out of Cleveland and go to Georgia.”

Brent knows the feeling, and after listening to Shine on Rainy Day, he hopes you get it, too. He has never been more proud of his work. After 10 years of searching and struggle, the LP sounds and feels exactly how he wants it to. Like home.

“It’s not as good as it’s going to get,” Brent said. “But if it’s the last thing that I ever do, if I died the day after it came out, then thank God I was able to record it because the songs and the production, it was everything I wanted to say. Finally.”

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Broad River Nightmare takes over the 27 Club in honor of their new album

Along with Thrashy Death Metalllers Systematic Devastation

And Riff masters- Tombstone HWY

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Ever been to a party where someone asks if you like jazz? Well, this may not be that but we’ll be subverting forms and breaking norms all night long. Come out for some weird pop and tunes tinged with that four letter word.

Music at 9:00pm
$5.00

Chuck Lichtenberger
https://www.chucklichtenberger.com/listen/

Tin Foil Hat
https://tinfoilhatmusic.bandcamp.com/

Nostalgianoid
https://soundcloud.com/mikeholmes

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Come check out the fresh new sounds of Dreads For Brains. Featuring the original music performed by the band Turnuptruk
with a new Bass player and drummer. Friday February 1st will feature JP Furnas (Dub Kartel & Empire Strikes Brass) on Bass and Trombone and Nick Hope on Drums ( Empire Strikes Brass). Steve Poteat on guitar and vocals, Danver Robinson on Vocals and percussion and Tim Alimena on Guitar and Vocals. Dreads for Brains is a Rootsy Psychedelic Reggae experience of original music as well as covers that are played in an original way. Come feel this original new sound together with us this Friday

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FREE! KAIZEN returns to UpCountry Brewing to play some incredible music. Enjoy craft beer, a full food menu, and killer music with no cover charge.

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Natural Born Leaders is a fresh and appetizing indie- Rock, funk, HipHop band formed in the mountains of Asheville North Carolina in 2016. Their music is a melodic representation of many different genres of music, past, present, and current. NBL’s lyrics are
real, heart felt, and driven by love and fear, and at many times a conversation between those emotions. The at times intense grooves carry with them hooks that’ll get stuck in your brain for days to come. NBLs rhythm section is hard hitting, funky, and tight. The band is cut from the type of stuff that moves peoples feet. The tunes display heavy links from jazz, blues, Afro-Latin, and
Metal. NBL was featured on NPR’s weekend edition with Scott Simon after garnering the attention of the judges of Bob Boilens Tiny Desk Contest in June of 2018. NBL has since been consistently featured in media and touring locally, regionally, and nationally.

The first recorded studio EP by Natural Born Leaders, “About time” is currently available for purchase and streaming across all major outlets. The band is currently in the process of recording their second EP with producer Patrick Doyle at Echo Mountain recording studio in Asheville, NC set for a release in the spring of
2019.

If you are in the search of music that will make you think, cry, feel, or
dance. NBL is for you. NBL is a family and at their shows you become a part of that magic dynamic. NBL shows are a force to be reckoned with!

$5 Entry Fee, 21+
One World Brewing West
520 Haywood Rd, Asheville NC 28806

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