Adeem the Artist
ALL AGESSEATED SHOW ADEEM THE ARTIST As they began working on a new batch of songs, Adeem the Artist was busy thinking about the way a lifetime of experiences can pile up in a person’s brain. “Traumatic events and warm events leave psychological imprints — there’s this pattern to it,” says the Knoxville, Tennessee-based performer. “Different moments and different impressions throughout our lives will ripple out and demand repeated engagement. They play out in little holidays that we celebrate over and over.” Those patterns and markers of time are a crucial thread running through Adeem’s new album Anniversary, due out May 3, 2024 via Thirty Tigers. Recorded live to tape over five days at The Butcher Shop (Nashville, TN) and produced by Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Frank Turner) with the master musicianship of Megan Coleman (Jenny Lewis and Allison Russell), Nelson Williams (Jake Blount), Ellen Angelico (Wheeler Walker Jr.), Jessye DeSilva, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Katie Pruitt, the 12-song collection is a stunning statement of empathy, humor, and deep introspection. The groundwork for Anniversary began in earnest after Adeem met Walker for coffee, having caught the producer’s attention with some spirited shitposting on social media. Adeem had been a fan since Walker’s solo album Sycamore Meadows, which they heard while living in the Syracuse, New York, area after high school. “I was absolutely obsessed,” they say. “I was a Christian worship pastor and having all these doubts. The religious questioning and soul searching Butch was doing on that record was so important for me.” Walker’s ability to blend sounds from classic to contemporary, commercial to experimental, gives Adeem license to play with a range of musical styles on Anniversary, while still remaining tethered to country and roots music. Fittingly, Anniversary also arrives on the date of Adeem’s marriage to their spouse Hannah, bringing with it a heightened sense of intimacy and urgency from a songwriter whose work is characterized by fearless, incisive lyric writing. “This one feels a lot more personal and earnest — a lot of it is very close to the chest,” Adeem says. “This record is a marker as well as a collection of individual markers. I’m saying, ‘This is who I am as an artist and this is the world I want to try to help create.’” SUG DANIELS Sug Daniels is a Delaware born, Philadelphia based, singer-songwriter, story teller, and producer who is using the tools around her to capture the emotions of an era. Daniels’ work is as colorful, vulnerable, and charismatic as her personality. She thoughtfully combines elements of folk, rock, and soul alternatives to create personal and tender music interlaced with messages of truth and positive change.
OUTPOST FREE SHOW: Red Clay Revival
-FREE SHOW -STANDING ROOM ONLY -RAIN OR SHINE -FOOD TRUCK: THE PO-WAGON Century 21 Connected presents an evening of fun, music, and food! This family-friendly event will feature live music from local act Red Clay Revival, local vendors, face painting, The Po-Wagon food truck + more! RED CLAY REVIVAL Soul-driving jam grass in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Born in the soul-basted countryside of Alabama, then brought to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains to marinade and mature, Red Clay Revival delivers an experience that continues to reshape the parameters of roots music with skillful, heart-driven compositions. Red Clay Revival’s powerful songs and live performances harness an energy that electrifies any space, leaving audiences with an embedded musical experience.
OUTPOST: Bibelhauser Brothers w/ Em & The Innocent Mischief
– ALL AGES- STANDING ROOM ONLY- RAIN OR SHINE The Bibelhauser Brothers combine twin brother harmonies with award winning original songs andinstrumental prowess to create high octane bluegrass-country-soul sounds from the heart ofKentucky. In addition to writing songs for award winning bluegrass artists including Del McCoury,Balsam Range, Michael Cleveland, & Dale Ann Bradley, Aaron Bibelhauser is an accomplished sessionmusician, producer, recording engineer, and longtime host of the weekly radio broadcast “BluegrassEvolution” on 91.9 WFPK in Louisville, Kentucky. His twin brother, Adam has spent the past twodecades developing one of the most powerful voices in bluegrass music and his own style as a bassistwith a commanding presence, both on and off stage. Both twins have endured lifelong friendshipswith their bandmates Jeff Guernsey and Steve Cooley; two of the finest pickers in the country whohave carried their bluegrass roots around the globe, on stage and in the studio with iconic artistsincluding the Dillards, Steve Warner, Vince Gill and more. Opening set by Em & The Innocent Mischief
OUTPOST: Organically Programmed//Kyle Gordon//Indoor Condor//come//Mountain Medicine//
– ALL AGES- STANDING ROOM ONLY- RAIN OR SHINE Organically Programmed: Fresh off sets at AthFest and the 40 Watt Club, OP is branching out beyond Athens, GA to play across the Southeast. OP is a big band with orchestral and electronic instrumentation that weaves psychedelic electronic space disco, easy listening, library music, and jazz. The band features a deep Athens pedigree with a mix of young blood and established musicians, led by Oliver Domingo. Indoor Condor: Asheville’s own pajama rock band just released their debut full-length, Candy Macabre. The release was accompanied by a pop-up shop in the Asheville Mall, a record store that sold only Candy Macabre. Band leader Ben Underwood manned the shop himself, leveraging the abandoned infrastructure of overconsumption to bring energetic lo-fi pajama rock to the people. His recent in-store performance at Baby Rabiez, was featured on a local billboard!?! come: two mice fall into a bucket of cream. the first mouse struggles a bit, gives up, and drowns. the second mouse swims with such relentless vigor, it churns the cream into butter and walks out. come, from athens, georgia, is that second mouse.Mountain Medicine: Mountain Medicine weaves together heartfelt lyrics and soulful tunes that resonate with the spirit of the mountains. This duo brings a unique blend of traditional folk and modern influences, promising a performance that will captivate and inspire. Kyle Gordon: Frontman of Brand new Atlanta band, ANTHMZ, brings a solo set to Asheville. The band just released their debut singles, Soft Core and Summer Queen. Featuring members of MammaBear and Heavy Mojo, the band packs raucous energy into each song and every performance. They’re developing new material in the studio and are testing it on the road.
OUTPOST FREE SHOW: Bluegrass Jam with Sam Wharton
– ALL AGES- STANDING ROOM ONLY- RAIN OR SHINE Sam Wharton is a founding member of the SFTRB with one of the best voices in bluegrass. He is the ultimate ambassador for the music. Along with developing his own unique style of rhythm guitar, he is one of the finest harmony singers in the world! He grew up singing barbershop quartet in Alabama. He honed his chops in Telluride, but now calls Western North Carolina his home! Free show! Sit ins are encouraged at this open Bluegrass jam.
OUTPOST FREE SHOW: Bluegrass Jam with Sam Wharton
– ALL AGES- STANDING ROOM ONLY- RAIN OR SHINE Sam Wharton is a founding member of the SFTRB with one of the best voices in bluegrass. He is the ultimate ambassador for the music. Along with developing his own unique style of rhythm guitar, he is one of the finest harmony singers in the world! He grew up singing barbershop quartet in Alabama. He honed his chops in Telluride, but now calls Western North Carolina his home! Free show! Sit ins are encouraged at this open Bluegrass jam.
OUTPOST FREE SHOW: Bluegrass Jam with Sam Wharton
– ALL AGES- STANDING ROOM ONLY- RAIN OR SHINE Sam Wharton is a founding member of the SFTRB with one of the best voices in bluegrass. He is the ultimate ambassador for the music. Along with developing his own unique style of rhythm guitar, he is one of the finest harmony singers in the world! He grew up singing barbershop quartet in Alabama. He honed his chops in Telluride, but now calls Western North Carolina his home! Free show! Sit ins are encouraged at this open Bluegrass jam.
CANCELED: FREE PATIO SHOW: Jordan Smart
ALL AGES LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE ***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED*** JORDAN SMART “A gut punch of simple honesty” – Glide Magazine Jordan Smart is a folk singer based in Latonia, KY. Covering a broad range of subjects — from parental epiphanies and questionable lavatory visits, scathing political commentary and hitchhiking cross country, satirical talking blues to love, loss, grief and even pickles — Smart aims to have a song for every occasion. If he can’t make you laugh, cry, or at very least think, feel free to approach him for a refund.
OUTPOST FREE SHOW: Bluegrass Jam with Sam Wharton
– ALL AGES- STANDING ROOM ONLY- RAIN OR SHINE Sam Wharton is a founding member of the SFTRB with one of the best voices in bluegrass. He is the ultimate ambassador for the music. Along with developing his own unique style of rhythm guitar, he is one of the finest harmony singers in the world! He grew up singing barbershop quartet in Alabama. He honed his chops in Telluride, but now calls Western North Carolina his home! Free show! Sit ins are encouraged at this open Bluegrass jam.
Illiterate Light + Liz Cooper
ALL AGESSTANDING ROOM ONLY ILLITERATE LIGHT It’s dangerous to put Illiterate Light in a box, especially with the release of their new album, Arches. Are they a guitar-driven indie rock duo? Kaleidoscopic neo-psychedelia? Synth-kissed, harmony-laden folk? What does one do with an album beginning with “fake tits and diet coke,” then pivoting to train derailments in rural Ohio and never-ending black holes? These prolific farmers-turned-rockers have captured the energy of their live shows—fans crowd-surfing, moshing, crying, and crooning—and infused it into their latest release. Illiterate Light’s third album, Arches, is not a passageway but an arrival. “We’re no longer striving to define a sound,” said drummer Jake Cochran. “We’re leaning into sides of ourselves that have felt off-limits, sticking to what feels right rather than concerning ourselves with comparison.” Out November 1 via Thirty Tigers, the record is bursting with thunderous anthems, biting lyrics, and lush harmonies.. Arches was recorded in two very different locations: small-town Appalachia at Gorman’s home studio and Hollywood, CA at Sunset Sound with producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, Beck, The Killers). “We wanted the best of both worlds,” says Gorman. “We spent several days with Joe at Sunset. To record vocals in the same live room as so many of my heroes—Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Dylan—was unreal. I knew I was in a holy place.” The LA session was paired with sessions in Virginia, where Gorman and Cochran co-produced the bulk of the record with longtime collaborator Danny Gibney. In their hometown, they experimented with soaring instrumental journeys and had friends sit in on the sessions to keep things lively. LIZ COOPER On the porch of her one-time Nashville home, Liz Cooper had a multimedia project that combined two of her loves: lips and cigarettes. She painted her own lips with red paint and kissed a canvas two or three hundred times, later dotting them with the detritus left behind in ashtrays by her friends. An overlap of intimacy, indulgence, cheekiness, and sensuality, the piece complements Cooper’s roiling second record, Hot Sass. Over jagged, frenetic guitar parts, Cooper sets expectations aflame with the record’s title track. Her songs unfurl like smoke spiraling off an incense cone late in the afternoon, with Cooper pushing deeper into psychedelic openness, punk ferocity, and beyond.Hot Sass marks multiple departures for Liz Cooper: from her nine-year home of Nashville, from her band addendum of the Stampede, from any genre-burdened expectations she’d accumulated over the years. After heavy touring in support of 2018’s Window Flowers, where her songs stretched out in live settings, she felt constricted by the Americana-adjacent associations that the Stampede carried. So with her bandmates’ blessing, she dropped the moniker, pursuing sounds and songs that let her chase the inspiration lent to her by the likes of Courtney Love, Lou Reed, and David Bowie.
