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Early show for a BIG Nashville summer Saturday night!About RB MORRIS:
https://www.rbmorris.com
Knoxville-based RB Morris has been described as a “cross between a rural Tom Waits and an urban Woody Guthrie”. The songwriter, poet, and actor is incorporating theater and spoken-word into his current ensemble of musicians, which includes cello player, Cecilia Wright, multi-instrumentalist, Greg Horne, and percussionist extraordinaire, Hunter Deacon.
RB has released seven full-length albums, including the newly released “Going Back To The Sky” (Singular Recordings) produced by Bo Ramsey. With an uncanny synthesis of strength and tranquility, the dynamic interplay between the instruments reverberate with the vocals crooning captivating songwriting.
"Wisdom, humor, tradition, originality, reverence for the landscape and an unsentimental love of living amidst one's fellow humans all join to create this impressively out of the ordinary recording,” wrote Jerry Clark of Rambles.NET.
He made his debut in 1997 with “Take That Ride” on John Prine’s Oh Boy! Records, and his follow-up “Zeke And The Wheel” (Koch Records) was nominated for Americana Album of the Year by the American Association of Independent Merchandisers. RB’s songs have been recorded by John Prine and Marianne Faithfull, and he has toured and shared the stage with Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, John Prine and others. He has enjoyed recent performances on NPR's "Morning Edition", at the Country Music Hall of Fame and was featured at the annual Southern Festival of Books.
Serving as the Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence at The University of Tennessee from 2004-2008, RB Morris was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame in 2009. He wrote and acted in “The Man Who Lives Here Is Loony”, a one-man play taken from the life and work of James Agee, and was instrumental in founding a park dedicated to Agee in Knoxville, TN. RB was a featured artist in the PBS television series “Music Voyager,” themed on Knoxville and East Tennessee, and he was named the Poet Laureate of The Sphere Conference, International Letterpress Convention held at the Knoxville Convention Center in 2015. In 2016, Morris was awarded Knoxville’s first official Poet Laureate by Mayor Madeline Rogero and the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville.
About GRANT PEEPLES:
https://grantpeeples.com
A self-described “tree-hugger who watches NASCAR,” Grant Peeples is known for his axe-sharp socio-political tunes, raucous humor and heart-gigging ballads. He is currently touring in support of his just-released “A Murder of Songs” album.
Grant is the recipient of the Focus Foundation Award for Creative Excellence, which cited the “humor, compassion and wisdom of his songs,” and their “unflinching social insight and cultural acuity.” Grant tours coast to coast, and is a regular performer at The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, the 30A Songwriters Festival, and The Florida, Folk Festival. January 2019 marked a second tour in The Netherlands, where FolkForum.nl described him “…a pure storyteller, in the best American folk tradition…” and his show “…one of those gems that you will remember for a long time…”
Gurf Morlix, who has produced Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier, Ray Wiley Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen, and Slaid Cleaves—has produced five of Grant’s records, including his most recent release of original songs, “Settling Scores Vol II” (2018), and a special release, ‘Bad Wife,’ (Feb 2020) a collection of songs written by women songwriters, a tribute to women in the year of the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in the US.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The 5 Spot, 1006 Forrest Ave,Nashville,TN,United States
