bt Music News #8 Regional Music Is Alive And Well
by MrTweed · February 9, 2017
#8 is alive with shows! Tons of great music to check out every weekend in February. As always help us make bt Music News a success by reading, sharing & liking. It lets us know you enjoy what we're doing.
Attention Bands! If you want us to showcase one of your songs from a recent release email us a copy and if picked we'll embed it in our newsletter along with a short bio and links to your site. Email songs to tubefi@gmail.com
OUR GOAL: To introduce you to local artists ...sometimes hidden in the far reaches of the hills of Appalachia
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An Evening with Richie Kotzen of The Winery Dogs-Poison on May-7-16 8pm at The Appalshop Theater in Whitesburg,Ky.tickets going on sale by the time you read this at 606-434-8648.
Booking for HillBilly Days (BIlly Johnson Stage) for this year is underway! email info@btmediagroup.com if interested. Looking for Full Bands & acoustic acts.
New projects coming out of TubeFi Studios this month. Dapper Dan (modern rock & roll), The Old Regulars (blues rock) & Sean Whiting (Rock & Roll) Great new tunes coming soon. I hope everyone supports these releases at buys a CD!!
So how about a completely professional online retail music site selling all the top gear gigging you musicians need at great prices with free shipping on most items! What would you say if I told you this store is also located in Pikeville KY and will ship anywhere in the country. Well you can now shop for everything from strings to Fender guitars, amps to all your gigging accessories at www.mountainmusicexchange.com
Live Music
February 11th
The Old Regulars @ The Woodstone Deli in Kingsport TN
Travis Tritt @ The East KY Expo Center Pikeville KY
February 12th
The Revelry Jam with Nick Jamerson @ The Burl in Lexington KY
February 18th
Bill Engvall @ The Mountain Arts Center Prestonsburg KY
February 24th
DOKKEN @ The Forum in Hazard KY
February 25th
A Mile To Nowhere @ Danny's Bar Princeton WV
MME Open Mic Night
March 9th 7pm MME will be doing there first Open Mic night of the year! This event will be held at the Expo Center in Pikeville KY. Come check out some great local artists or bring a guitar and play a tune!
Video Of The Week
Sons of FM - The area's premiere 80's & 90's Cover band as always doing a bang up job! Check out this killer version of "Hold The Line" by TOTO
Regional Album You Should Own Bedtime – Bedtime
A goal at bt Media Group is to be always searching for new music. There are too many great regional artists out there to settle on mediocre. Our goal is to dig through the muck and find those killer bands you might not know about yet. Remember as we always say.."Your new favorite band could be the next one you listen too.."
This week we bring you something that was actually released in 2007 but has been on my radar ever since I lost the CD in 2010! bedtime puts together a piano driven lyric provoking indie vibe that pulls you in. The vocals are full of emotion and is distinct enough to always be identifiable immediately but still fit perfectly in the band. I have to be honest I don't much background on bedtime. Not much is out there about them. Bandcamp lists just the barebones information wise.
Listed as from Lexington KY Band members include: Andrew Ramey,Lucas Ward,James Friley,Josh Blaine
They list themselves as indie, post-rock. I call them awesome.
I saved the best news for last. Both releases are now on BandCamp and they let you pick the price you pay! Do yourself a favor and download both as fast as you can. And for the love of indie music Pay them something!