Ross Hollow’s Fine is a clever collection of tunes crisscrossing multiple styles and genres. Ross Hollow’s Fine tackles the biggest elephant in everyone’s room. Released last October, the band’s second full-length album calls out our collective tendency to tell the biggest lie on social media: that we’re all just “fine.” Even before the pandemic, our …
copy by Donovan Wheelerfeatured image by Amanda Cannon Photography The Flatland Harmony Experiment is one of the first bands I should have written about when I launched this site almost five years ago. Why they never were will remain a “head-scratcher” for a long time. At the local and regional level, the secret to making …
copy by Donovan Wheeler featured image by Tasha Ramey Photography The first time I heard Rebekah Meldrum sing she stood atop a flatbed trailer on the downhill end of Greencastle’s Franklin Street. Belting out the lyrics to “Coattails,” and anchored by Paul Holdman’s masterful fret work on blues guitar, Meldrum’s vocals climbed over Wasser Brewing …
The members of Dreadful Greta are as young as 18…as old as…50 or 60-something. And yeah… “Tribute Band” is probably the correct term to describe them. I’m just not sure it’s the one I want to go with. For starters, the world’s remaining “Deadheads” are a largely minute school of “Phish.” In my own case, …
As the band claims on their own Facebook page, Union Suit Rally’s 2016 EP, W.W.P, is a “a raw, layered blend of country, blues and rock.” It’s an apt summary. Ranging from catchy and up-tempo tracks such as “Right in the Middle” and “Bluebilly” to the slower paced tunes such as “Pray for Prey” and …
Theirs is a sound that sneaks up on you. A melody becomes a vague feeling you’ve never quite shaken and congeals as a memory culled from deep in your mind. Lots of bands can entertain. Few can hypnotize. Granted many of The Indiana Boys’ tunes lend themselves a good deal more to the former than …
Brandon Tinkler at the Vine Street Patio at The Inn at DePauw Friday May 11 @ 6:00 Copy by Donovan Wheeler He walks past you with an unassuming demeanor. The wavy black locks, the fringes of an oncoming beard, the rough-hewn sports-coat topping off the denim and Chuck Taylors beneath it. Brandon Tinkler looks every …
Craig Thurston at Wasser Brewing Company Friday April 20 @ 8:00 Copy by Donovan Wheeler [dropcap]H[/dropcap]e fell in love with music from a distance, parking cars at the (then) Deer Creek Music Center. Today he tours Indiana and the Midwest, entertaining listeners with a set of pipes that bottom out with a fluid mid-tenor spreading …
They are familiar names, gigging in familiar haunts. They capture the rural soul that is life in west-central Indiana and they weave into it the pseudo-urban flair that is life in the middle of Greencastle. For three Thursdays in January DePauw’s Ronald L. Dye brings local and regional talent to campus by day and to …
Jason Blankenship with David Sharp — at Wasser Brewing Company — Friday December 1, 2017 — 8:00-11:00 press release provided by Jason Blankenship Born and raised in Southern Ohio, Jason Blankenship was immersed in a musical environment from an early age. “My dad and uncle had their own band when I was a kid,” he …
