The Tennessee Boltsmokers

THE TENNESSEE BOLTSMOKERS are back in business! They have a brand new CD out now, Vintage All American Dream.

The Tennessee Boltsmokers are Mark McKinney - vocals, guitar, Eric Lewis - vocals, guitar, dobro, David Pierce - vocals, mandolin, Craig Yarbrough - vocals, bass, and tonight only, Richard Ford - Banjo, Lap Steel.

TNBS is an americana/bluegrass band from Memphis, TN. Their first release, Songs From the Floor, was released in late 2003. The most frequently played track was a Boltsmoker version of Bob McDill's classic hit Turn Out the Light and Love me Tonight (originally recorded by Don Williams). Other singles included Midtown, New York City on the Floor, Everybody and Never Be Mine. The new sophomore release, Hydroradio, was inspired during the tour support of their first release - particularly when the band was performing throughout the northeastern US. The name was derived listening to the first hydroelectric powered radio station in the U.S., located in the Catskills Mountains area. The boltsmokers are forging a new musical path in bluegrass music that could only come from a collision of musical styles in that mysterious Memphis-way.

The Tennessee Boltsmokers continue their direction left of the bluegrass center, with their latest release Vintage All American Dream. “The idea for the record really started with the title track, which I wrote after spending a day at a flea market thumbing through old vinyl collections and browsing a few thrift shops for some snap shirts and jeans. We had taken some time off from any live shows and just started meeting up and pickin…exchanging ideas and tightening the screws on how we interact musically. These guys are all so laid back and talented, by the time we went into record we were able to pretty much cut it live.”

McKinney’s sense of time and place in his writing tell the stories of a lifetime spent in Memphis. His ode to childhood memories of riding to the station in his dad’s gray-on-gray LTD Ford and watching the iconic & homeless figure Dancing Jimmy, or his young adult years as a Midtown Manic – staying out all night and playing the local venues every weekend…Vintage All American Dream has some of the best performances and storytelling we’ve heard thus far from TNBS.

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$7 Cover. Doors at 7 pm. Show at 8 pm. All ages. Smoke free inside. Beer Coffee and Food. Large patio and deck. 641 S Cooper. 901-278-4994. www.myspace.com/otherlands.