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| 03/08/14 | Jesse Aycock Record Release Show | Jesse Aycock Record Release Show in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.jesseaycock.com
Jesse Aycock, is a Singer Songwriter/Multi Instrumentalist from Tulsa Oklahoma. He crafts his own unique brand of music with influences of early rock, the original Tulsa sound, folk, psychedelic, country and soul into his songs. His artistry captures the human condition in story songs, love songs, and songs about everyday life. Jesse Aycock has already released two highly praised albums “Life’s Ladder”, and “Inside Out Of Blue”. Aycock just finished tracking his new full length album “Flowers & Wounds” @ the legendary Church Studio in Tulsa, OK. For the session Jesse brought in his long time bassist Eric Arnt, along with Neal Casal, and George Sluppick of (Chris Robinson Brotherhood). The album is being mixed by Jason Weinheimer, and features guest appearances by David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) Jimmy Karstein (JJ Cale) and Indy Gratto (Boondogs). When he sings his songs in his high and tender tenor that is reminiscent of John Lennon, he conveys the loneliness and longing of Gram Parson’s best work with Emmylou Harris, and the soulfulness of Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes. |
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| 03/11/14 | Eternal Summers ( Virginia ) w/ El El ( Nashville, TN ) | Eternal Summers ( Virginia ) w/ El El ( Nashville, TN ) in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://eternalsummers.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/elelmusic Eternal Summers are a rock band from the Magic Twig Community of Roanoke, Virginia. Singer/guitarist Nicole Yun and drummer Daniel Cundiff started Eternal Summers in 2009 as a duo, and were introduced to each other quite ironically by their eventual bassist, Jonathan Woods. Their sound oftentimes draws comparisons to lo-fi music or dream pop, though the band continually strive to maintain their status as a rock n’ roll trio. Eternal Summers released their debut LP, “Silver”, on Kanine Records in 2010 and followed that up with 2011’s “Dawn of the Eternal Summers” LP. They have since enlisted bassist Jonathan Woods to expand their sonic palette, which is quite apparent on their latest LP “Correct Behavior”, released in 2012 on Kanine Records. ” Soul is not necessarily a genre of music but a quality of music that permeates your body and finds your core. It’s easy, honest, heartfelt, sexy, confident, and usually moves you from a softer place. Upon discovering this, Ben Elkins, formerly of Heypenny, started doing something he’d never really done before: writing soul music. “ |
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| 03/13/14 | Water Liars w/ The See | Water Liars w/ The See in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://waterliarsmusic.com
http://www.wearethesee.com “My sisters were the heavens / My brothers were the depths / Now I’m rolling into battle with a smoke between my lips,” Justin Kinkel-Schuster sings on “I Want Blood,” and it’s a presiding image on the self-titled third LP from Mississippi’s Water Liars. Joined by GR Robinson on bass and fresh off the success of their album Wyoming and the reissue of their debut, Phantom Limb, Kinkel-Schuster and Andrew Bryant strut into this effort with their feathers out, driven by a need to create. Forget your precious bands that take years to release their next album: Water Liars don’t know how to stop working. A punk aesthetic – a desire not to overdo songs until they’re shiny with emptiness – is the band’s defining feature, and it’s why their songs are filled with such raw sorrow. When Kinkel-Schuster and Bryant’s voices twine together somewhere in the greater stratosphere of sound, as they do on “Tolling Bells,” try not to feel like a psalm. To call the songs here an improvement over what they’ve done before would be to sell the earlier work short. They’re simply telling one story, a story that doesn’t end, about the ways we save ourselves and kill ourselves, about the terrors and joys of being a small thing in a big world, and this is just the latest installment. Fitting into no immediately recognizable category, and perhaps as much in step with their New York and L.A. counterparts as with their Little Rock brethren, the See create cathartic pop rock anthems with sing-along choruses that don’t let you go. The See’s first full length album, Pretending and Ending, was released March 24, 2012 on the band’s own label. |
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| 03/14/14 | Cory Branan | Cory Branan in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Admission: $10.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://corybranan.com
“Intense dynamics, deep humor, brave production and heavy songwriting: A new voice emerges to run with the greats.” – Playboy “Branan’s hushed, dry whiskey voice and his sharp edged, story song lyrics make the appropriately titled Mutt a mongrel that rewards repeated spins…” -American Songwriter “There’s a new breed of singer-songwriter – Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and now Cory Branan.” – Rolling Stone “…songwriting prodigy gives John Prine a run for the money.” – Billboard |
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| 03/19/14 | Two Cow Garage w/ Mad Nomad | Two Cow Garage w/ Mad Nomad in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Admission: $7.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Two-Cow-Garage/15327419845
http://www.reverbnation.com/madnomad ” Mad Nomad. Rock ’n’ roll with a lot of punk passion. [...] Hard-charging anthems constructed with down-stroking guitar riffs and the kind of drumming that punishes the snare and the high-hat. Music in your face, punishing even, but still melodic. Verses that punch and choruses that ring out. ” Shea Stewart – Sync Weekly |
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| 03/21/14 | PATRICK SWEANY ( Nashville, TN ) | PATRICK SWEANY ( Nashville, TN ) in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Admission: $7.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
www.patricksweany.com
Patrick Sweany likes the spaces in between. On a given night (or on a given album) he’ll swing through blues, folk, soul, bluegrass, maybe some classic 50s rock, or a punk speedball. He’s a musical omnivore, devouring every popular music sound of the last 70 years, and mixing ‘em all together seamlessly into his own stew. Yet, the one thing that most people notice about Patrick isn’t his ability to copy – it’s his authenticity. Like his heroes, artists like Bobby “Blue” Bland, Doug Sahm, Joe Tex, Patrick somehow manages to blend all of these influences into something all his own. His latest record, Close To The Floor, hit the streets July 16, 2013. It was recorded to 2″ tape in Nasheville, TN and features contributions from Joe McMahan (Luella & The Sun, Allsion Moorer, Webb Wilder), Ron Eoff (Cate Brothers, Levon Helm), Jon Radford (Justin Townes Earle, Lilly Hiatt), and Ryan Norris (Lambchop), among others. Close To The Floor is a gritty, hard look at some very difficult recent events in Sweany’s life and recalls the halcyon days of Muscle Shoals releases by Dan Penn, Eddie Hinton and Leon Russell. |
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| 03/22/14 | Kevin Kerby & Brent Best ( Slobberbone ) w/ RTB2 | Kevin Kerby & Brent Best ( Slobberbone ) w/ RTB2 in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://kevinkerbylovesyou.com
https://www.facebook.com/RTB2RTB2 http://www.slobberbone.com Music isn’t what it once was, and it was probably never the way we pretend. Someone once said that some people are quiet simply because they don’t have much to say and they’re smart enough to keep that to themselves. But Arkansas’ Kevin Kerby is no manufactured enigma. He’s just an honest working man who happens to write songs imbued with mystery and grace, that come plainly sung, like country, and sliding sideways toward the truth like real poetry … except you can’t be affected by them unless you listen to them, unless you hear the slow surge and slow-motion tumble of the words. Birthed in 2005, RTB2 has released two EPs, two full-length LPs, a live album, an exclusive 8-track tape, and they have toured Texas and the Midwest. Their current release, 2, was produced by Stuart Sikes (Cat Power, Loretta Lynn, The White Stripes) and is available on vinyl/CD/digital download. |
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| 03/25/14 | Air Loom ( Fayetteville, AR ) | Air Loom ( Fayetteville, AR ) in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Admission: Donations.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
https://www.facebook.com/airloomband
Air Loom (Dana Louise and Jackson Jennings) is a thigh talkin’, brain stretchin’ duo from Fayetteville, Arkansas. |
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| 03/28/14 | The Salty Dogs | The Salty Dogs in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.thesaltydogs.net
The Salty Dogs are a four piece band that enjoys playing and recording original country music. The Little Rock based band has released 3 full-length studio albums including the band’s current album, Brand New Reason. The band was formed in 2003 and was named the “Best Original Band in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times. Since then, the band has played countless shows sharing the stage with such likes of Junior Brown, Hank Williams, Jr., Old Crow Medicine Show, The Gourds, Pete Anderson, David Rawlings, Kinky Friedman and many more. |
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| 03/29/14 | Graham Wilkinson ( Austin, TX ) & Sarah Hughes | Graham Wilkinson ( Austin, TX ) & Sarah Hughes in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.grahamwilkinsonmusic.com
http://sarahhughesmusic.com “ Graham Wilkinson makes beautiful music for mountain drives and nature hikes, but also for boisterous bars across North America. The music is original. Some might claim it is a kaleidoscope of roots music, folk, rock, Americana, jazz, and reggae, but really Graham Wilkinson melts away genres and makes new and exciting music. ” Singer/Songwriter Sarah Hughes is a local favorite, playing the bars and venues in the college town of Fayetteville, Arkansas. The powerful Southern voice anchoring her folk-rock style has drawn comparisons to Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, & Lucinda Williams. |
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| 04/04/14 | Shinyribs ( Austin, TX ) | Shinyribs ( Austin, TX ) in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.shinyribs.org
Shinyribs Russell is known as the front man of the Austin TX musical combo, The Gourds. Born in Beaumont TX, raised in The Church Of Christ he found his calling in biker bars of Louisiana at the tender age of seventeen playing a hybrid of loud country blues rock and psychedelic swamp jangle for the grumpy ingrates congregated there. His regionally notorious band, The Picket Line Coyotes did the college faux chitlin circuit until their demise in the early 90′s. The Gourds formed in 1994 and have become a favorite of the Americana/Hippie Jam/Genre Bending scenes of the last 20 years. Russell in a fit of antsy and wanderlust began performing solo shows under the pseudonym Shinyribs as early as 2006. The name was given to him by a transient in return for a meal of BBQ Russell provided to her. After playing a monthly show in Houston for the last two years he has honed Shinyribs into one of the most interesting roots music experiences around. Stylistically it pulls from the spectrums of great American music; Country, Gospel, Funk and a dollop of poetry in the middle of it all. Shinyribs is not afraid to shake his ass either. And many attend shows just for the dancing. A revolving line up of Austin talent has evolved into the current top notch band; Gourd drummer, Keith Langford, Cerebral Pony Bass man Jeff Brown and Kentucky Fried Keyboard Whiz Winfield Cheek. After garnering fans with his debut record, 2010′s Well After Awhile (ninemilerecords) the sophomore effort is due out this spring. Look for it in Mid-April on ninemilerecords as well. |
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| 04/05/14 | Bombay Harambee w/ Teenagers & Pagiins | Bombay Harambee w/ Teenagers & Pagiins in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
https://www.facebook.com/BombayHarambee
http://teenagers.bandcamp.com/album/ca http://pagiins.bandcamp.com alternative garage indie post-punk psychedelic pop rock |
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| 04/08/14 | Bonnie Montgomry w/ John Wiese & The Bloodless Cooties | Bonnie Montgomry w/ John Wiese & The Bloodless Cooties in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.john-wiese.com
http://www.bonniemontgomerymusic.com Arkansas born and bred Bonnie Montgomery is a classically trained composer and opera singer by day and country queen by night. Bringing her raucous spin on traditional southern music to honky-tonks throughout the U.S. and Europe, Bonnie’s catalog hails from a place where outlaw country saddles up with Americana and folk. John Wiese (born April 18, 1977) is an American musician, artist and composer. In the late 1990s, Wiese moved from St. Louis, Missouri to the West Coast to study graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts, and soon became a notable contributor to Bastard Noise. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as GX Jupitter-Larsen, Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Evan Parker, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Yellow Swans, Cattle Decapitation, No Age, C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. Wiese toured extensively, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))). He toured the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.). He also toured the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari. |
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| 04/11/14 | Jim Mize | Jim Mize in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.fatpossum.com/artists/jim-mize
” Born out of honky-tonks, juke joints, post-punk and catastrophe, “Release It to the Sky” fits firmly in the Southern musical tradition, but still manages to sound unique. Mize, who’s in his 50s, sings full-throated, in a gravelly voice seasoned by bourbon and country living. His lyrics have a literate, plainspoken beauty to them. They’re largely obsessed with American unease — impermanence, crumbling relationships, the road — which figures, since Mize works as an insurance adjustor and conceived most of the album “on windshield time,” en route to survey the wake of natural and man-made disasters. The powerful dirge “After the Storm” came from repeated trips to the Gulf post-Katrina. “Disappear in America” charts the promise of release across the miles of the U.S.: “Thunder, it hides as lightning/the sun rides the horizon/Once we get out of here/disappear in America.” Buy this record. Lindsey Millar Arkansas Times |
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| 04/12/14 | Michael Shipp Band | Michael Shipp Band in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.michaelshipp.com/
After several sellout gigs in central and N.W. Arkansas last year, SHIPP returns to the WWT for another night of original blues-based Southern rock. This energetic band recently enjoyed opening for The Hadden Sayers Band and 38 Special but fervently loves to play the intimate venues to display the “flashback-to-the-seventies talent” and the tunes of their most recent CD release, CROW LOUDLY. Texas Lightning-Arkansas Hog-Stompin’ Thunder, another rocking CD by this guitar-slinging Roosterboy power-trio that also features a who’s who list of guest artists, with the likes of Pat Travers, Dusty Hill, Rickey Medlocke, and Arkansas homeboy, Billy Bob Thornton. Anchored by Roosterboy Michael Shipp and supported by a core group that features bassist/guitarist Jai Lambert and veteran drummer Richard Wilson, this is a rock show not to be missed. |
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| 04/15/14 | Lee Bains & The Glory Fires ( Birmingham, AL ) w/ Swampbird | Lee Bains & The Glory Fires ( Birmingham, AL ) w/ Swampbird in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://thegloryfires.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Swampbird/155140654516566 Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, Lee Bains III makes music for the foundry worker that writes fiction in his spare time and the college english professor that changes her own oil. The Glory Fires are too loud for Texas and no strangers to Norway; well-mannered Southern punks you would feel comfortable giving the keys to your empty house. It’s no surprise that renowned rock’n’roll outsider Tim Kerr has taken them under his wing. Together they’ve forged a sound that blends the swampiest of Southern grooves with a rust-belt snarl that will leave fans of the Bob Seger System in a cold sweat. The Glory Fires have taken their caterwauling live show around the clubs, basements and theatres of the United States and Europe, raging around Lee’s literary, personal, politically charged lyrics — bringing to mind Ronnie Van Zant under the tutelage of Noam Chomsky, or Lee Ving on a Cornel West kick. Their debut LP There Is a Bomb in Gilead was released in 2012 on Alive Natural-Sound Records, and their Sub Pop debut will appear in 2014. |
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| 04/17/14 | The Sideshow Tragedy ( Austin, TX ) | The Sideshow Tragedy ( Austin, TX ) in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Admission: $5.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://thesideshowtragedy.com
2014 is shaping up to be a big year for Austin TX blues punks The Sideshow Tragedy: the band is currently finishing up songs for their fifth LP, which will be recorded later this spring at Old Soul Studios in New York and produced by Kenny Siegal(Chris Whitley,Langhorne Slim, Beirut, Joseph Arthur, New Pornographers). They will be touring the South and Northeast during this time as well, and are gearing up for their second European tour in the Fall. The band’s most recent record, Persona, was recorded at Austin’s Big Orange Studios. Persona is a dark, murky, glorious slab of garage, blues, and rock and roll–The Sideshow Tragedy’s most accomplished record to date. It’s the summation of everything they’ve been working to accomplish since they started the band, and the beginning of everything that’s still to come. |
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| 04/18/14 | ADAM CARROLL RECORD RELEASE SHOW! w/ Christian Marie Carroll opening | ADAM CARROLL RECORD RELEASE SHOW! w/ Christian Marie Carroll opening in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://038343e.netsolhost.com/wordpress1/
A Texas Songwriter born and raised, Adam Carroll takes the events of ordinary lives and turns them into deeply moving, often humorous songs. With seven Indie CDs supporting regular tours across the USA, Canada and Europe as “one of the hippest songwriters on the Texas music landscape”, this engaging Americana guitar-picker has earned further critical acclaim with song placements in the Grammy nominated film, Country Strong and others. “The core of what I do is songwriting; it’s the one thing I’m passionate about. It’s the most fulfilling and challenging job I can imagine.” explains Adam. From his studio records produced by Grammy Award winner Lloyd Maines (South of Town, Lookin’ Out the Screen Door, Live at Cheatham Street, Far Away Blues) through to his latest releases (Old Town Rock N Roll, Hard Times with Michael O’Connor, Live at Flipnotics), the quality of his songwriting stands out. Given a rare command of the English language and an amazing sense of melody, it’s little surprise Adam has earned enviable comparisons to Townes Van Zandt, Todd Snider, John Prine and Bob Dylan as well as being recognized as a creative influence on his songwriter peers. |
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