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Blount County Live
by Let's Be Blount
Blount County Live is a Let's Be Blount bi-weekly video podcast focused on live music and musicians in and from Blount County hosted by Lee Zimmerman and Scott Shankland.
Episodes
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Redd & The Paper Flowers: The Band That Probably Tuned Your Kid's Marching Band Instrument
Redd & The Paper Flowers bring three songs and one very well-traveled cello to Blount County Live. Live performances of "Shower Thoughts," "If the Devil," and "Say I'm Happy" from the new album Dead Little Thing, out October 23. Four voices, one microphone, and a cello that gets carried down the...
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Shanna in a Dress: She Biked Across America and Played a Show Every Night
Lee and Scott sit down with Shanna in a Dress, who drove eight hours from St. Louis to play in a basement in Blount County. That sounds like a lot until you learn she once biked from Seattle to Boston, sixty miles a day, hauling her own amp and merch, and played a show every single night when she...
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Jeff Barbra & Sarah Pirkle: Thirty Years of Building East Tennessee's Music Scene
Lee and Scott sit down with Jeff Barbra and Sarah Pirkle, and if you've been anywhere near live music in this region over the last three decades, you've felt their fingerprints on it whether you knew their names or not. They got married in '97, quit their jobs, and opened Appalachian Music…
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Monet Maddox: The Shed Co-Owner Who Found Her Voice at 40
Lee and Scott sit down with Monet Maddux, singer-songwriter, co-owner of The Shed alongside her husband Scott, and living proof that the best chapters sometimes start later than you'd think. Monet didn't pick up a guitar until she was 40, when she found a little Martin parlor guitar in her...
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Millie Rochelle: The Townsend Teenager Who Owns Every Stage She Steps On
Lee and Scott sit down with Millie Rochelle, and if you caught her opening for Sam Bush a few weeks back, you already know – this kid commands a stage like she's been doing it for decades. Turns out she kind of has. She's been gigging since she was 10 and doing musical theater as long as she can...
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Becki Grace: From Three Mile Smile to Solo Ukulele
Lee and Scott sit down with Becki Grace – Blount County native, born-and-raised icon of the East Tennessee music scene, and one of the most emotionally honest songwriters you'll ever hear. Becki has music running through her whole story. She and her late husband fronted Three Mile Smile together,...
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Doug Wilhite: The Arkansas Blues Man Who Found His Home in East Tennessee
Lee and Scott sit down with Doug Wilhite, and if you're looking for someone who knows how to turn a rainy day into a hit song, this is your guy. This Helena, Arkansas native (that's the home of the blues, folks) moved to Tennessee in 2017 and immediately found his tribe at Brackin's Wednesday…
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Perry Bonck: The Air Force Vet Who Went from New Orleans Choir Boy to East Tennessee Songwriter
Lee and Scott sit down with Perry Bonck, and if you're wondering how someone goes from singing first soprano in the Archdiocese of New Orleans Boys Choir to writing heart-wrenching songs about military sacrifice, this is your story. Perry's the kind of songwriter who'll make you walk out of a…
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Bill Cabage: The Four-Band Man Who's Been Keeping Blount County Music Alive for 50 Years
Lee sits down with Bill Cabbage and special cohost Shelby Shankland (who's running for Blount County Clerk, by the way), and if you're wondering how one man can be in four different bands without losing his mind, Bill's got it figured out. From Pistol Creek Catch of the Day to his Western swing...
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Milk Man and the Big Band: The 20-Person Orchestra That Started at Open Mic Night
Lee and Scott sit down with Dino, aka Milk Man, and if you're wondering how a 24-year-old who's never taken a music lesson ends up leading an 18-20 piece big band, well, it all started with a gallon of Weigel's milk in a cup holder and a dream to crash open mic nights. This coding student turned...
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Mic Harrison and the High Score: The Arena-Cana Kings of East Tennessee
Lee and Scott sit down with Mic Harrison and Kevin Abernathy from Mic Harrison and the High Score, and if you've been sleeping on East Tennessee's best rock band, wake up. These guys just dropped "Peach Blossom Youth" – produced by Eric "Bottle Rockets" Ambel – and it's the kind of polished...
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The One and Only, Dr. Jay Clark: The Bear-Wrestling Appalachian Folk Extraordinaire from Blount County
Lee and Scott sit down with Jay Clark, and if you're wondering how someone goes from chasing bears in Oklahoma to hosting the best listening room show in Blount County, well, buckle up. This man's got more stories than a Sunday sermon and twice the heart. Jay's the guy who teaches at Maryville...
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Cruz Contreras: The Black Lilies Frontman Who Came Home to Blount County
Lee and Scott sit down with Cruz Contreras, and if you've been following East Tennessee music for the past couple decades, you know this man's resume. From studying jazz piano at UT to fronting the Black Lilies, to his trippy solo album "Cosmico" (seriously, check that one out), Cruz has been all...
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Doug Harris and Blount County Blues
Lee and Scott sit down with Doug Harris, and if you're trying to figure out which Doug Harris band you saw last weekend, join the club. This man's got more musical projects than Blount County has dive bars – the Dirty Dougs, Doug Harris Band, Dirty Doug and Johnny, and a few others we probably...
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Wyatt Ellis: The 16-Year-Old Mandolin Prodigy and Blount County Ambassador
Hold up. Did we just say sixteen? Yeah, you read that right. Wyatt Ellis might not be old enough to vote, but this Townsend native's already played the Grand Ole Opry multiple times, won an IBMA award, and has his own exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame. No big deal. Lee and Scott sit down...
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Lane Shuler: Townsend's Most Famous Hip-Hop Artist
Lee and Scott catch up with Lane Shuler, Townsend native turned Maryville resident who's been crafting his own brand of alternative hip-hop right here in Blount County. Lane breaks down how he went from a kid in Townsend with no music shops or guitar teachers to creating what he calls "liquid...
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EmiSunshine Ain't Your Average Nashville Starlet
Y'all better buckle up for this one. We sat down with East Tennessee's own EmiSunshine – yeah, that 20-year-old powerhouse who's been making grown folks cry with her voice since she was knee-high to a grasshopper. While Nashville's churning out cookie-cutter country, this Madisonville native's…
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Blount County Live is a Let's Be Blount bi-weekly video podcast focused on live music and musicians in and from Blount County hosted by Lee Zimmerman and Scott Shankland.
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Blount County Live currently has 17 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Blount County Live is a Let's Be Blount bi-weekly video podcast focused on live music and musicians in and from Blount County hosted by Lee Zimmerman and Scott Shankland.
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Blount County Live has 17 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Blount County Live is created and hosted by Let's Be Blount.
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