A couple of weeks ago Bruce Flett, formerly the bassist for Shreveport-based A Train (which in the '70s and '80s could claim to be the country's best bar band, or at least the country's best bar band ...

Local musician Andy “Smoky” Weiner, a transplant from Brooklyn, N.Y., is responsible for coordinating much of the blues programming at Piccolo Spoleto. Every year, Weiner, 56, scours the country for ...

Lee Zimmerman Correspondent for The Daily Times May 23, 2025 May 23, 2025 The Smoky Mountain Blues Society has announced a new initiative that will bring its efforts to the Rose Center in Morristown, ...

player sitting below dim lights, singing the blues, while a mellow crowd sips their drinks and nods their heads to her words. That’s what blues music is all about, right? Well, it is for Ann Rabson, a ...

Smoky Greenwell envisioned a vast, “We Are the World”-like chorus for the video of “Merry Christmas to All,” his holiday plea for unity and peace. The local harmonica ace invited hundreds of friends ...