UPCOMING SHOWS
AN EVENING HONORING JOHN PRINE FOR THE BENEFIT OF "HONOR FLIGHT"
Friday, April 4, 2025
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Alec Wightman will serve as the MC for an evening of great John Prine music performed by John Schwab and Molly Pauken, Donna Mogavero, Keith Larsen, Oxbow String Company with Jim Wade, and A Few Good Friends.
Honor Flight provides trips for senior veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the nation's memorials. A wonderful cause!
SCOTT MILLER
Thursday, April 24, 2025
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“Long before co-founding that dapper twangpop outfit [The V-Roys], Miller logged many miles on the singer-songwriter trail as kind of a cross between John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III.” – No Depression
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“Scott Miller’s songwriting has always balanced wit with woe.” – Relix
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Recently inducted to the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, fiery roots-rock singer/songwriter SCOTT MILLER returned to his native Virginia to tend the family farm while continuing to release and perform new music informed by that rural area, history, and Appalachia. The Staunton native first made a name for himself in the 90s as guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter with the superb pop/rock band the V-Roys before establishing himself as a gifted and eclectic solo artist, first with his ad hoc group the Commonwealth and later on his own. “[Miller combines] the emotional honesty and intelligence of a singer/songwriter with the swagger and enthusiasm of a rock & roller… a gifted and eclectic solo artist.” (AllMusic.com). As seen on tour with Patty Griffin, Robbie Fulks, Paul Thorn and American Aquarium.
KIERAN KANE AND RAYNA GELLERT
Thursday, May 8, 2025
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Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert are set to begin a 2025 touring schedule on the heels of their latest album—simply titled Volume 4 (out April 11, 2025 on Dead Reckoning Records)—which captures their less-is-more philosophy, but with some fresh twists.
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Volume 4 digs into the duo’s musical past while adding fresh elements of collaboration. Lucas Kane (of Kane Welch Kaplin and Go Jane Go) contributes understated percussion to several tracks, and among the songs is a recent co-write with celebrated songwriter David Francey. Highlighting Rayna’s history as a premier old-time fiddle player with the inclusion of a couple traditional instrumentals, Volume 4 also documents versions of older songs of Kieran’s that have become crowd favorites from the duo’s shows—as well as some recently uncovered gems from a batch of “lost” demos. This new collection presents an intimate snapshot of Kieran and Rayna’s minimalist musical journey.
CHUCK PROPHET & HIS CUMBIA SHOES (AN ENCORE DANCE PARTY!)
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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Back by popular demand – now with more dancing room!
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When a stage four lymphoma diagnosis forced him off the road and into the hospital, Chuck Prophet didn’t know if he’d live long enough to see the end of the year, let alone get back on tour.
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“I was going through a tunnel,” he recalls. “It was dark. But I had music: music to play, music to listen to, music to get me out of my head. Music was my savior.”
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That much is plain to hear on Wake The Dead, Prophet’s extraordinary new album. Recorded with band of brothers ¿Qiensave?, the collection explores the world of Cumbia music, whichconsumed and comforted Prophet during his illness and subsequent recovery. The songs are intoxicatingly rhythmic, all but demanding you move your body, with arrangements that blur the lines between tradition and innovation. There are flashes of rock and roll, punk, surf, and soul, all filtered through the streets of San Francisco and wrapped up in the rich legacy of a genre that traces its roots back to the jungles of South America.
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Captured live in the studio, Wake The Dead resumes Prophet’s streak of more than a dozen critically acclaimed solo albums stretching all the way back to 1990, when the California native first shifted focus from pioneering neo-psych band Green on Red to working under his own name. Since then, Prophet—who’s now in full remission—has earned raves everywhere from Rolling Stone to NPR, landed songs in a slew of films and television shows, and seen his work covered by Bruce Springsteen, Solomon Burke, and Heart, among others.
KELLY WILLIS
June 20, 2025
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On some other plane out there in the great big multiverse, Kelly Willis could well be the biggest Nashville country music star of the last 35 years. But things panned out rather differently for her here on this Earth. The Oklahoma-born Army brat was barely into her early 20s and still cutting her teeth fronting a spunky rockabilly band in Austin when a “check-this-kid-out” tip from Texas songwriter Nanci Griffith landed her on the radar of producer Tony Brown, who promptly signed her to MCA Records. How exactly her auspicious fireball of a debut, 1990’s Well Travelled Love, and even a plumb spot on the soundtrack to the following year’s Thelma & Louise, somehow failed to burn Willis’ name and voice into the mainstream consciousness remains a bone of bumfuzzlement for many a fan and critic to this day, but suffice it to say — Willis was still in her early 20s when MCA dropped her just two albums later.
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And that, perhaps goes the Kelly Willis story in yet another alternate universe, was that. But lucky again for all of us here in this reality, “our” Kelly Willis was just getting started. Liberated from the Nashville playbook and emboldened by a jolting shot of nothing-left-to-lose, she set about making her next record in Austin her way. The end result, 1999’s aptly-titled What I Deserve, changed everything. “A big part of making that record was me thinking, ‘I’ll probably never get to make another one after this, so if this has to be my swan song, I’m not going to compromise,’” she says today. “That was a really big sea change for me to take the reins like that, and it was incredibly satisfying and gratifying that it then found a home with [independent label] Ryko and did so well. It was a pivotal moment that fueled the rest of my career.”
THE DEFINITIVE STORY OF THE TALKING HEADS: A CONVERSATION WITH JONATHAN GOULD
Thursday, June 26, 2025
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Gramercy Books Joins Natalie’s Grandview and Zeppelin Productions to Present Songwriter Spotlight: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE Author Jonathan Gould in Conversation with Alec Wightman! Parker MacDonell Playing Talking Heads Hits!
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A literary and musical evening not-to-be-missed features acclaimed music biographer, Jonathan Gould, author of Burning Down The House, the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band that brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream, forever changing the look and sound of popular music! Gould will be in conversation with music devotee Alec Wightman; performing several Talking Heads standouts is singer/songwriter Parker MacDonell.
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Admission is $15 and all attendees who purchase BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE during registration or at the event will get 20% off the retail cost of the book. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
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NATALIE’S GRANDVIEW and ZEPPELIN PRODUCTIONS are Community Partners with GRAMERCY BOOKS for this exclusive songwriter evening.
Alice Wallace
Thursday, July 24, 2025
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Here I Am, Nashvillian songstress Alice Wallace declares on her new album, released in June 2024 via Mule Kick Records. It’s a title that hints at her deeply personal, confessional songwriting style, one that invites the listener to gaze at her beating heart as each intimate secret pours out, propelled by a powerful, expressive delivery that marks her as one of the true vocal talents of her generation.
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Alice does not hide behind the microphone, but uses it to amplify everything inside her champing to get out. She’s survived the highs and lows of life, love, and the music industry and finally produced the album she feels she was destined to make. Here I Am, she says, the real Alice Wallace.
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​Alice moved to Nashville four years ago after more than a decade in southern California, and Here I Am is the first of Alice’s albums to be recorded in true Nashville style, backed by a lineup of world-class musicians and recorded in two whirlwind days with no rehearsal, just the way the best session players like to do it. Produced by Nick Buda (Taylor Swift, Martina McBride, Dolly Parton) the album features some of the most talented musicians Nashville has to offer. In addition to Buda on drums, the record features Grammy-winning guitarist Kenny Greenberg (Willie Nelson, Wynnona Judd, Hayes Carll), bassist Ted Pecchio (Doyle Bramhall II, Susan Tedeschi) and keyboardist Jimmy Wallace (The Wallflowers). And although Alice had never played with any of the musicians before, the combined talents in the room made for an electric experience that brought her songs to life in vibrant and unexpected ways.
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THE SHOOTOUTS
Saturday, July 26, 2025
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Hailing from Akron, Ohio, The Shootouts are known for their energetic fusion of Rustbelt Americana, roots rock, and country music, which fans often call “country music for people who don’t like country.”
The Shootouts will release their fourth album, Switchback, produced by Dan Knobler (Allison Russell, Bahamas, Lake Street Dive, Rodney Crowell), on May 30, 2025, on Transoceanic Records. The 12-track LP features guests Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, Sam Bush, Logan Ledger, Lindsay Lou, and Mickey Raphael.
The band has performed with Marty Stuart, Asleep at The Wheel, Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow, Charley Crockett, Chris Isaak, and more. On February 23, 2023, the Shootouts made their Grand Ole Opry debut, with six follow-up Opry performances since. They made their Ryman Auditorium debut on January 4, 2025. Outfits from the band's debut Opry performance are currently exhibited at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 2023, The Shootouts released their third album, Stampede, co-produced by Ray Benson, lead singer of Asleep at The Wheel. The LP featured guest appearances from Asleep at The Wheel, Marty Stuart, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, and Raul Malo (of The Mavericks). Stampede spent over 15 weeks on the AMA/CDX Americana Radio Chart’s Top 10 (reaching #4) and #1 on The Alt-Country Specialty Chart (3 times). It landed at #24 on the year-end Americana Album Chart for 2023. and the Nashville Scene called the Shootouts a “Country Artist to Watch”.
DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE
Monday, August 4 & Tuesday, August 5, 2025
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When Grammy winner Dave Alvin and Grammy nominee Jimmie Dale Gilmore made the album Downey To Lubbock together in 2018, they wrote the title track as a sort of mission statement. “I know someday this old highway’s gonna come to an end,” Alvin sings near the song’s conclusion. Gilmore answers: “But I know when it does you’re going to be my friend.”
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Six years later, they’re serving notice that the old highway hasn’t ended yet. “We’re still standing, no matter what you might hear,” they sing on “We’re Still Here,” the final track to their new album TexiCali. Due out June 21 on Yep Roc Records, TexiCali continues to bridge the distance between the two troubadours’ respective home bases of California (Alvin) and Texas (Gilmore).
EILEN JEWELL
Sunday, August 17, 2025
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Hailed by American Songwriter as “one of America’s most intriguing, creative, and idiosyncratic voices,” Eilen Jewell rises from the ashes on her captivating new album, Get Behind The Wheel, picking up the pieces of her shattered world and finding new purpose and meaning after watching her marriage, her band, and what felt like her entire career fall apart in a series of spectacular, heartbreaking implosions. Co-produced by multi-instrumental wizard Will Kimbrough (Todd Snider, Hayes Carll), the collection pushes the acclaimed singer and songwriter’s trademark blend of vintage roots-noir into more psychedelic territory, with spacious, cinematic arrangements complementing her revelatory explorations of grief, loss, resilience, and redemption.
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An Idaho native, Jewell built her career the old fashioned way, touring relentlessly with the kind of undeniable live show that converts the uninitiated into instant acolytes. Over the course of nine albums, she’s crisscrossed the globe countless times and shared bills with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Loretta Lynn, Mavis Staples, Wanda Jackson, George Jones, and Emmylou Harris. Rolling Stone lauded Jewell’s “clever writing,” while NPR declared that she has a “sweet and clear voice with a killer instinct lurking beneath the shiny surface,” and The Washington Post mused that “if Neko Case, Madeleine Peyroux and Billie Holiday had a baby girl who grew up to front a rockabilly band, she’d probably sound a lot like Eilen Jewell.”