Live In The Library

( <br/><brightspot-cms-external-content url="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=391812743555198&set=pb.100081794260676.-2207520000">https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=391812743555198&set=pb.100081794260676.-2207520000</brightspot-cms-external-content>) Aura Child is the psychedelic bass and electronic project of Jordan Gwarjanski, now based in Chattanooga, Ten...

( <a href="https://www.abepartridge.com/press-kit">https://www.abepartridge.com/press-kit</a>) From the studio in the Chattanooga Public Library, this is a session featuring Abe Partridge who is both a visual artist and a singer and songwriter. In a profile in The Bitter Southerner , Tony Paris wrote “Partridge writes to make you sit up and think. He wants to jar your reality. Sometime...

For this session recorded in the studio in the public library, we are delighted to feature two gifted veteran musicians, guitarist Denny Jiosa and percussionist Michael Moryc, from Nashville together with Michael Salter from Chattanooga playing drums. Together they are The Ambient Monkeys. The objective of these sessions is always to capture a live performance with all its in-the-moment energy, bu...

Symatree is a four-piece band from Cleveland, Tennessee that plays an electrifying fusion of rock, funk, and jazz…all with psychedelic improvisation at its core. All four members of the band are extremely talented musicians. The rhythm section is tight and reliable, communicating effortlessly even amidst the drummer’s penchant for performing with his eyes closed. The keys and lead guitar dance cre...

From the studio on the second floor of the Chattanooga Public Library, this is a session featuring a band fronted by Corbin and Caroline Fawley. According to their bio, Corbin and Caroline “believe in country music beyond nostalgia, writing about the things they see in the present tense. Their shows are intimate and intense, emphasizing lyrics that could be read as blue-collar poetry and the relat...

( Photo provided by Jimmy Galloway) From the studio in the Chattanooga Public Library, we have a session—a master class, really—with Jimmy Galloway and his harp guitar. Bruce Kaplan, writing about Jimmy Galloway, called him “the best guitarist in Chattanooga that most people don't know about.”

(Graphic From Gig City Swing Facebook / Gig City Swing Facebook Page) From the studio in the Chattanooga Public Library, this is a session from Gig City Swing featuring Spencer West playing drums, Dakari Kelly on bass, Zach Simoni and Christian Oliveri playing guitars, and Sarah Oliveri on flute.

Brownie Lee Hamilton in the studio at the public library in Downtown Chattanooga. (Photo by Nessa Parrish / WUTC) This session features Brownie Lee Hamilton, first solo and then with his band. For the solo session, the irrepressible Brownie walked into the studio, sat down at the piano, introduced himself, and launched straight into a rousing take on a familiar song that could have been written fo...

(Rachel McIntyre Smith) From the studio in the library downtown, we have a session featuring singer and songwriter Rachel McIntyre Smith who’s been a guest at least once before, but for this session, she brought a couple of friends—Emerald Butler playing fiddle and Amber Fults singing a seamless harmony. Rachel grew up in Cleveland and many of her songs are about her friends and family when she wa...

From the studio in the downtown Chattanooga Public Library, this session features a band of gifted songwriters called Pan-O-Ram Club. All four members of the band—singer, pianist Kathy Veazey, singer and guitarist John Rawlston, bassist and producer Dan Myers, and singer and percussionist Kathy Webb Myers-- are songwriters. While they do include a range of covers in their sets, for this session th...

Live In The Library Holiday Special Performance by Lady Chapel (Nessa Parrish / WUTC) Merry Christmas, everyone! From the studio in the public library, we have a joyous celebration of the season featuring first: The CCA Choir directed by Neshawn Calloway followed by Allie Levanway AKA Lady Chapel, my friends Nina Ricci and Rachel McIntyre Smith, and closing with a set by one of my favorite Chattan...

( <a href="https://www.stollvaughan.com/">https://www.stollvaughan.com/</a>) From the studio on the second floor of the public library downtown this is a session from the gifted songwriter and storyteller from Lexington, Kentucky - Stoll Vaughan. The influence of Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, and Bob Dylan is evident in his writing American Songwriter declared, "With deep and reflectiv...

(Parrish, Nessa / <a href="https://russellcookart.com/epk">https://russellcookart.com/epk</a>) Russell Cook & the Sweet Teeth began as a two-guitar and drums juke-joint style trio, before gradually morphing into an exploratory rock band featuring the sparkling guitar work of Scotty Knight and ace drummer Jeremy Clark. The Sweet Teeth play new songs, traditional songs, as well as pl...

Before she began writing and singing songs, Kelsi Westfall was a poet. This poem, Which Way Will You Go , published on the net in 2013, alludes to the many challenges she faced after leaving home when she was still a teenager. "sometimes the silver lining's thin but if its there you count it as a win remember that for some their lining will never silver become everything is perspective when held i...

(Photo by Sal Tufano / <a href="https://www.www-reverendfreakchild.org/bio">https://www.www-reverendfreakchild.org/bio</a>) The Reverend Freakchild has been a guest both in the studio at the radio station and the downtown public library. To be honest I prefer hosting the always garrulous Reverend in the studio in the library because he plays a lot more music when he is in the studio by...

From the studio in the Chattanooga Public Library, this is a session featuring Secondwave Radio. The band is Tony Perri and Travis Avery playing guitars with Gio Giotti playing bass and drummer Cameron Fowler.

(Julie D Babb / <a href="https://www.barkinglegs.org/ourevents/alan-shikoh-an-evening-of-solo-guitar">https://www.barkinglegs.org/ourevents/alan-shikoh-an-evening-of-solo-guitar</a>) In the studio on the second floor of the Chattanooga Public Library, our guest this week is the gifted guitarist Alan Shikoh. Alan will be playing a solo show in Barking Legs Theater on Dodds Avenue on Wed...

From the studio on the second floor of the public library downtown, this week we have a session from The Scarlet Love Conspiracy, five friends whose music, by their account, defies easy description. Suffice it to say it’s fun and it rocks.

Brownie Lee Hamilton in the studio at the public library in Downtown Chattanooga. (Photo by Nessa Parrish / WUTC) "My name is Brownie Lee Hamilton. I had a speech impediment when I was young. I stuttered, had a speech impediment, couldn’t roll or pronounce my R’s, and was bullied for it but with determination and persistence. Anything can happen if you believe and have faith! I have a 6-year-old d...

From the studio on the second floor of the public library downtown at its new time on Saturday evening we have a session from Frog Kabob, a young band in every sense, they’ve been making music together for about six months.

This week from the studio in the Chattanooga Public Library we have a session featuring Parker Millsap playing songs from his most recent album, Wilderness Within You Parker grew up in the Pentecostal church in Purcell Oklahoma. The influence of his upbringing is apparent in both his singing and in his writing (especially in the song that closes the session). These days he lives in Nashville. He r...

From the studio in the Chattanooga Public Library, our guest this week is singer and songwriter Paul Edelman. According to his bio, Paul Edelman was “almost born on the airplane from Columbus, OH to Philly. He grew up in South Philadelphia before moving to Asheville in 2008, but he still wears a Philadelphia Eagles t-shirt. On his website, he’s quoted as saying: “Listening to Bob Dylan, as a teena...

This week from the studio in the Chattanooga Public library we have a session featuring Sherman Lee Dillon. Sherman grew up on a 200-acre farm “way back in the country,” as he put it, in Mississippi in the 1950s and early 1960s. Growing up he listened to radio stations playing rhythm ‘n’ blues, blues, and country music. All of the classic songs he heard are now infused with the music he has been m...

This week on Live in the Library our guests are a recently formed band from Nashville called Big 50. The core of the band is electric guitarist Andrew Gaultier and acoustic guitarist and singer Jake Gunter. The two friends moved from Louisiana to Nashville with the same dream - keeping honky-tonk country alive. The music they make with the band they formed in 2020 is an attempt to mix Merle Haggar...

(Chattanooga Presents) Richard Winham speaks with the headliners for this Friday's show at the Nightfall Concert Series in downtown Chattanooga: Call Me Spinster and Drew Sterchi.