Dec 26, 2019 | 2019, December
December 26, 2019 Tom Netherland | Special to the Herald Courier BRISTOL, Tenn. — A pedal steel guitar occupied the stage of the Paramount. Nearby, keyboards awaited talented hands. A full-on kit of drums anchored a bass guitar, acoustic guitars, a banjo, a fiddle and...
Dec 20, 2019 | 2019, December
December 20, 2019 Tom Netherland | Special to the Herald Courier Trans-Siberian Orchestra pioneered wedded styles of heavy metal with opera and classical with Christmas, presented in spectacular form. A decade ago, The Wizards of Winter birthed in similar fashion. New...
Dec 10, 2019 | 2019, December
December 10, 2019 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Make way for a band of heroes. Call them the Blue Stocking Club. They’re 35 women who equate to prayers answered in the form of community works undertaken and issues solved. Next year marks 100 years...
Dec 6, 2019 | 2019, December
December 06, 2019 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Texan Robert Earl Keen sings and writes songs much in the manner of a seasoned Major League Baseball pitcher. He might lull you with an off-speed number, then buckle your knees with a heater. So it’ll...
Nov 21, 2019 | 2019, November
November 21, 2019 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER B.B. King reached down as if from his perch as the king of the blues to bestow upon a little white kid from Georgia with a love of the blues. “Ever since then,” said Tinsley Ellis, blues man lifer,...
Nov 21, 2019 | 2019, November
November 21, 2019 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Best not pout or cry, particularly as a sleigh full of Christmas shows abound as coming soon to Bristol. In the course of the next month, those who seek holy jolly shows will find them in abundance....