If you don’t live in Nashville, then you might have a preconceived notion of what the Music City is like: Bright neon lights of honky-tonks downtown, LP Field lit up for the CMA Music fest, the Opry next to the Bass Pro Shop and the palatial homesteads of country music stars.
If you don’t live in Nashville, then you might have a preconceived notion of what the Music City is like: Bright neon lights of honky-tonks downtown, LP Field lit up for the CMA Music fest, the Opry next to the Bass Pro Shop and the palatial homesteads of country music stars.
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But if you live in Nashville, then you know that country is just the tip of the musical iceberg. There are plenty of songwriters and artists here who don’t subscribe to the mainstream country model, for various reasons, and manage not only to carve out a niche, but to build a foundation that grows into a following, that eventually blossoms into a creative community.
Tenn Out of Tenn is a direct result of the impact (and music) this community creates here in Nashville. Kristen Dabbs (our advertising extraordinaire) and her partner in crime, husband and songwriter Trent, put together the first Tenn Out of Tenn tour and compilation in 2005. They decided the time was ripe for Volume 2 and we’re joining in this time round the block.
The artists hopping on board the 2008 Ten Out of Tenn Tour are as follows:
Griffin House
Butterfly Boucher
Andy Davis
Tyler James
Erin McCarley
Jeremy Lister
Trent Dabbs
Katie Herzig
KS Rhoads
Matthew Perryman Jones
That’s ten, right? Good.
Check the AS blog in the coming weeks in order to get to know each of these artists a little better before they come to a city near you. Check out their myspace page too.
Here are the tour dates:
July 19 NASHVILLE, TN Cannery Ballroom
July 23 CHARLOTTE, NC The Evening Muse BUY TICKETS!
July 24 ARLINGTON, VA The Iota BUY TICKETS!
July 26 RIDGEWAY, NJ Blend Bar BUY TICKETS!
July 27 PHILADELPHIA, PA World Cafe Live BUY TICKETS!
July 28 BOSTON, MA Café 939 BUY TICKETS!
July 30 CLEVELAND, OH The Grog Shop BUY TICKETS!
July 31 CHICAGO, IL Martyrs BUY TICKETS!
August 1 INDIANAPOLIS, IN Radio Radio BUY TICKETS!
August 2 LOUISVILLE, KY Headliners BUY TICKETS!
August 3 NEWPORT, KY Southgate House BUY TICKETS!
August 4 KNOXVILLE, TN Grotto BUY TICKETS!
August 5 ATLANTA, GA Eddie’s Attic BUY TICKETS!
August 6 BIRMINGHAM, AL Workplay Theater BUY TICKETS!
Here is a video that Jeff Wyatt Wilson of Wilson Independent made:
Ten Out of Tenn Tour….coming soon.
