It didn’t start this way. The Commoners were playing their music. Colin Hardaway was playing his.
But the two formed an unlikely partnership when Hardaway wanted a live act to back a few songs for an upcoming EP.
The tracks were good, the two parties thought. Then, there was a gig, a one-time performance, or so they [...]
In what is being billed as the Sizzlin’ Summer Music Fest, three red dirt groups will provide the heat: Charlie Robison, Willie Stradlin and the Eli Young Band, pictured, whose latest release, “Jet Black & Jealous,” entered the country music charts at No. 5 when it debuted. The three groups will converge on the North [...]
After graduating from Conway’s Hendrix College, Graham Wilkinson returned to his native Texas and now uses Austin as his base. The Americana and alternative country songwriter will bring his backing band, The Underground Township, with him for a show at 9 p.m. today (Aug. 28) at the Smoke & Barrel Tavern, 324 W. Dickson St. [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we caught word that Travis Tritt might be coming to Fayetteville for a concert during the P&G Beauty Northwest Arkansas Challenge golf tournament.
A press release sent in today clarifies a lot of the details.
Tritt will be performing, and, according to the folks with the tournament, the event will be free. [...]
Hurt is not a band that can be accused of being content or of standing still.
Speaking by phone from Hilton Head, S.C. on a rare day off from touring, bassist Rek (pronounced “Rick”) Mohr told the Northwest Arkansas Times about joining the band (he booked a one-way ticket for the audition), about the rock ‘n’ [...]
Originally from Jonesboro, Zach Williams and the Reformation are making headlines outside of Arkansas, too. Billboard magazine hails them as “Southern rock without the clichés.” The group is touring behind their debut release, “Electric Revival,” which came out in April of this year. The group will play two gigs locally in the coming days: at [...]
The boys of Old Crow Medicine Show get down in a club. They’ll do the same Sept. 20, a Sunday, when they visit George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville.
Although the boys of Old Crow Medicine Show can (rightly) be labeled as several different types of music, such as a alternative country, folk, country and more, bluegrass [...]
Peter Frampton is in on the joke.
Sure, he’s known as the talk box guy, the guitarist who makes the weird effects. Pop culture skewering television show “Family Guy” even went as far as to make a mockery of him in one episode, one that Frampton actually participated in.
But you know what?
If any of it bothers [...]
There was a lot to see and hear at the fourth Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival, which took place last weekend (Aug. 12-15) near Ozark. Photos courtesy KEVIN KINDER and JON SCHLUESS. Music courtesy of festival band 3 Penny Acre.
Katharine Whalen of the Squirrel Nut Zippers got lost in the music. So did about 4,000 festival goers at the Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival. All photos by KEVIN KINDER, Northwest Arkansas Times.
Here is the chorus to the song “Jam Band Hippie Crowd,” a tune by Arkansas band Mountain Sprout:
“We’re unwashed and unemployable/And we don’t [...]