Roger Alan Wade is a singer-songwriter based in Chattanooga, but his music stretches across the United States.
Wade penned songs for country legends such as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, George Jones and Hank Williams Jr. He embarked on a solo career with the promotional assistance of his cousin, actor Johnny Knoxville, who occasionally featured Wade’s music on his TV show Jackass. He has also been featured on the TV show Wildboyz. During an appearance on the Howard Stern radio show, Knoxville promoted his cousin’s songs, which were favorably received by Stern and his audience and given frequent airplay thereafter.
His latest video has received tremendous airplay on CMT – you can view it here:
Lonesome Traveler will have to change their name soon to account for the horde of fans that are starting to follow them around. This is an acoustic band from Colorado’s front range with a bluegrass driver’s license, a certificate of songwriting, and a sheriff’s badge of cool. They possess the cracklin’ firepower of a six-piece band, yet the grace of a dancer as they weave in and around their condenser microphones, singing, picking, and testifying to the gospel of Americana music.
Although the band had already been loosely formed at the fiddler’s wedding, it was tempered in a snowy ditch along Interstate 25, when brothers-in-law Evan Neal (stand-up bass) and Chad Fisher (fiddle) gathered their wits after being severely hit from behind by an out-of-control vehicle. They were returning home from a show at the Boulder Theater (it was Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall, 11/20/04) and in a way only severe occurrences can, the accident refocused the pair on the pivotal role music would play in their future. Lonesome Traveler took to the trail that night.
Hailing from the small mining community of Beauty, Kentucky, Angaleena possesses a voice rich with Appalachian heritage, and the songs she crafts push creative boundaries even as they draw inspiration from Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, and other trailblazers of American music. Grammy winning songwriter Mark D. Sanders once said that, “if John Prine and Loretta Lynn had a baby, it would be Angaleena.” With her unique guitar style, lyrical prowess, natural charisma, and unapologetic honesty, Angaleena warrants such a compliment in a way that few others can.
Songwriter-singer/guitarist Nathan Bell has toured the US and Canada, playing at clubs, concert halls, and (as a member of the duo, Bell and Shore during the 80s) most of the premier North American acoustic music festivals, including the Walnut Valley Festival, the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and the Mariposa Folk Festival. His work on acoustic, National steel-bodied, and electric guitars is as strong as his songwriting, which is an amalgamation of ideas inspired by writers ranging from Jack London, William Faulkner, and the poet Marvin Bell to Townes Van Zandt and southern short-story master Larry Brown.
Bell has shared the stage with Emmylou Harris, Eddie and Martha Adcock, Stompin’ Tom Connors, Townes Van Zandt, Kathy Mattea, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Ricky Skaggs, and a whole cast of scofflaws and gypsies from the folk and bluegrass archipelago. He was a staff writer for Ten Ten Music in Nashville and has been regularly featured at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe, often as part of the “Writers in the Round” series with many notable songwriters, including Grammy-Award winner Don Henry, Craig Bickhardt, and CMA award nominee Angela Kaset.
In 1991, he recorded an album of songs with producer/guitarist Richard Bennett (Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart).
With the arrival of his first child in 1995, Nathan took a hiatus to concentrate on raising a growing family. In 2007, Nathan began writing and recording new material.
Nathan has just released his most recent CD, Traitorland.
At the Chattanooga Market Plaza Party – Thursday Market & Music Series (Miller Plaza)
Hailing from Dallas, TX, the four piece country-rock outfit Somebody’s Darling came up in a part of the nation where southern meets western and urban meets rural, so it’s no surprise how effortlessly this group of twenty-somethings blends rock energy with country sensibilities.
Their tunes sound just as good alongside Ryan Adams and The Band as they do Cross Canadian Ragweed and Chris Knight. Since the formation of the band in August ‘07, Amber Farris’s vocals and songwriting chops have shown themselves to be especially outstanding. Backed by a solid band including David Ponder on lead guitar, Nate Wedan on drums, and Michael Talley on the bass, the group has been garnering the attention of fans, venues, and press alike.
At the Chattanooga Market Plaza Party – Thursday Market & Music Series (Miller Plaza)
John David Kent is glad to be home.
Signed to Mercury Records at age sixteen, JDK first hit the road as the drummer for Radish, touring all over the globe, sharing the stage with acts like Metallica and Snoop Doggy Dogg. A few years later, he went grinding through the country with Pony League, his first gig as Frontman/Guitarist. Follow that with recording and/or touring for the likes of Ben Kweller and the Lemonheads, JDK has been riding that lonesome highway for the better part of 15 years.
Brian Ashley Jones is a soulful singer, accomplished lead guitarist, and versatile songwriter. Described as “Bluesy Grass”, Jones’ music is heavily influenced by the guitar driven blues, bluegrass, country, and rock that he absorbed in his hometown, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Jones maintains an active touring schedule and performs about 150 live shows per year at festivals, concert series, radio shows, and songwriter venues as well as being a recommended guitar clinician as part of Nashville Songwriters Association International’s Pros On The Road program. Continue reading
“Still I Believe” says a lot about up-and-coming folk-rock musician Michael Sechrist. Not only is it the title track of his latest C.D., but it paints a telling picture of the man behind the music, who asserts that there are things still worth believing in, even when they seem distant or hopelessly out of reach.
Sechrist isn’t afraid to wear his heart on his sleeve, singing with refreshing candor about things like hope in the midst of fear, love lost and found, death and healing, and standing up for he holds to be true. He sings about the world he lives in and the life he’s led, and invites listeners to find facets of themselves in these stories he sings. Continue reading
After knowing just a few things about Lou Wamp, there might be an irresistible tendency to begin tossing out labels: “Driven”, “Renaissance Man”, “Multi-talented”, “Perplexing”, or, perhaps if he himself were doing the labeling, just “Perplexed”. Easy enough to understand, given he’s at once a 25-year veteran of the music business, a registered architect with a successful practice (see www.louiswamp.com), impressively talented artist and painter, amateur archaeologist, and father and stepfather to six kids.
Besides being a sought after sideman and studio musician, he certainly has the skill to be a solo artist in his own right. Born in Ft. Benning, GA in 1956, Lou had plenty of music (Elvis to Travis; Bach to Beatles) around home while growing up. After piano lessons and playing guitar in his high school jazz band, a broken wrist encouraged him to take up resonator guitar. Gene Wooten became a close friend and mentor. Lou played on “Sidemen” nights at the Station Inn in Nashville and was in a band called Hiwassee Ridge that performed at the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville. Other bands he’s worked with include James Monroe and the Midnight Ramblers, The Dismembered Tennesseans, Cowjazz, Blue Moon Rising, and others. Continue reading
Nashville-based singer-songwriter/rhythm guitarist Denitia Odigie has just released her latest country-tinged compilation of soul-folk songs. Recorded in Music City U.S.A. with producer Darryl Swart, the 5 song EP, CONTRAST, is already making waves, selling unpredictably well at live shows from Tennessee to Texas to Montreal, Quebec. With beginnings as underground and DIY as her marketing and sales strategies, Denitia has just signed a publishing deal with Nashville’s Weston Boys Entertainment, quickly poising her for a launch from unheard to ubiquitous indie in 2009.
In the middle of the excitement of promoting her last independent project, Denitia is already back in the studio, recording more of the soul-folk-pop songs for which she is becoming known and loved.
Denitia has shared the stage with a variety of artists from Patrick Watson, Irma Thomas, Tim Finn, The Levees, and The Felice Brothers. Garnering increasing praise for her personal and moving live performances, Denitia tours regionally, playing coffeehouses, acoustic listening rooms, and rock clubs. With her raw and emotive stage presence and warm acoustic guitar playing, she “has found herself a beautiful formula for music, and if you can’t recognize a little wonderfulness in it, then you don’t like music (The Deli Magazine).”
Roger Alan Wade is a singer-songwriter based in Chattanooga, but his music stretches across the United States.
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