copy by Donovan Wheeler featured 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Craig Thurston at Wasser Brewing Company Friday April 20 @ 8:00 Copy by Donovan Wheeler He 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Carmichael at Wasser Brewing Company Friday–November 17 @ 8:00 Two-thirds of Carmichael’s self-titled debut album is everything that excellent, modern rock-and-roll records dare to be: inventive, exploratory, and experimental. From introspective ruminations on the human condition hammered out in thematically appropriate, plodding time-signatures to tracks playing with an evocative country-blues …
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