YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE 2009 FOOTHILLS FALL FESTIVAL
By Steve Wildsmithof The Daily Times Staff
Originally published: October 15. 2009 1:50PM
Last modified: October 15. 2009 2:10PM
TODAY: Gates open at 6 p.m. at Theater in the Park, downtown Maryville
The Dirty Guv'nahs
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
FROM: Knoxville
MEMBERS: James Trimble, Justin Hoskins, Aaron Hoskins, Michael Jenkins, Chris Doody, Mitch Stewart
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "The Dirty Guv'nahs"
ONLINE: www.thedirtyguvnahs.com
THEY SAID: "Five years ago, I didn't know how to even play guitar, and I'd never sung in front of anybody in my life, aside from Christmas carols or a church service," Trimble told The Daily Times last week. "About four years ago, I picked up an acoustic guitar, and it was really just for fun -- I wanted to come up with songs to sing around a campfire. Then, the band fell together as a happenstance thing, and now I'm driving by these billboards for the Foothills Fall Festival and thinking, 'Oh man -- we're playing that! This is great!'"
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
FROM: Australia originally; most of the current members are American
MEMBERS: Mel Watts, Rich Herring, Greg Hind, Wayne Nelson, Chris Marion
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "We Call It Christmas" (2007)
ONLINE: www.littleriverband.com
THEY SAID: "'Cool Change' has been the song that got people through really hard times universally," Nelson told us this week. "That song and where it is and what we've done to it to pack even more emotion into it is what hits people the hardest in the heart. You can't take it for granted, and you've got to deliver it when you play."
WHEN: 9 p.m.
FROM: Topeka, Kansas
MEMBERS: Phil Ehart, Billy Greer, Rich Williams, Steve Walsh, David Ragsdale
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "Works in Progress" (2006 compilation album)
ONLINE: www.kansasband.com
SATURDAY: Theater in the Park gates open at noon in downtown Maryville
WHEN: 1:30 p.m.
FROM: Knoxville
ONLINE: www.myspace.com/homerhartmusic
HE SAID: "I try to have a good time, because that's what it's about," Hart told us this week. "As long as you're having a good time, everybody else will have a good time. I'm not all that great of a vocalist or a guitar player, but I don't think you have to be the best, as long as you're nice to people and you're entertaining."
WHEN: 2:30 p.m.
FROM: Knoxville
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "The Right Side of the Grass" (2008)
ONLINE: www.micharrison.com
THEY SAID: "I think what we do is just (best described as) American rock 'n' roll," Harrison told us this week. "We've got a little country in there, and that's very American, but we're definitely a rock band. If you listen to Creedence (Clearwater Revival) -- they're not a country band; they're a rock band. But they're a very distinct American rock band, and that's what we are."
WHEN: 4 p.m.
FROM: Nashville
MEMBERS: Crystal Hoyt, "Big" Vinny Hickerson, Mark "Butter" Fortney
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "Off the Hillbilly Hook"
ONLINE: www.trailerchoir.com
WHEN: 5:30 p.m.
FROM: Poyen, Ark.
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "Justin Moore"
ONLINE: www.myspace.com/moorejustinmusic
WHEN: 7 p.m.
FROM: Murfreesboro
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "The Main I Want to Be"
ONLINE: www.chrisyoungcountry.com
HE SAID: "We're just working hard to keep 'Getting You Home' going up the chart and trying to sell records and let the fans know that I appreciate everybody," Young told us this week. "This is something I've dreamed about since I was a kid, and the fact that I've got a song sitting at No. 3 right now blows my mind."
WHEN: 8:30 p.m.
FROM: Newnan, Ga.
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "Good Time" (2008)
ONLINE: www.alanjackson.com
HE SAID: Alan Jackson declined an interview with The Daily Times
SUNDAY: Theater in the Park gates open at noon
WHEN: 1 p.m.
FROM: Maryville
MEMBERS: Grayson Shockley, Kevin Bailey, Chad Silence, Laura Bloomfield, Ben Bolden
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "Skyfall"
ONLINE: www.skyfallrocks.com
THEY SAID: "I think the Fall Festival has never seen what we have to offer," Silence told us last week. "A lot of performers these days are old-school, stand-up-there-and-sing-while-everyone-listens types of performers. With us, they're going to get the whole package."
WHEN: 2 p.m.
FROM: Alcoa
ONLINE: www.myspace.com/jackiemidkiff
WHEN: 3:30 p.m.
FROM: Knoxville
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "Free to Be"
ONLINE: www.hollyalejo.com
WHEN: 5 p.m.
FROM: Knoxville
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "Wait and See"
ONLINE: www.stephenhunley.com
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
FROM: Apopka, Fla.
MEMBERS: Shayne Hill, Joe Smyth, Mark Miller, Jim Scholten, Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "Best of Sawyer Brown" (2008)
ONLINE: www.sawyerbrown.com
THEY SAID: "For us, our fans have been absolutely the best from the get-go," Hubbard told us this week. "It's been really flattering in the last couple of years -- Mark will ask from the stage how many people have seen us before, and we're getting a whole new crop of fans coming for the first time, based on the reputation that they're going to have a good time at a Sawyer Brown show."
WHEN: 8 p.m.
FROM: Greeneville
MOST RECENT ALBUM: "It's America"
ONLINE: www.rodneyatkins.com
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