All events listed below are hosted at The Shed located adjacent to Smoky Mountain Harley-Davidson in Maryville, Tennessee. The Shed is an outdoor, covered pavilion. Stinkers BBQ, a full-service restaurant at The Shed, serves lunch and dinner 7 days a week.
"Just want to tell you guys how much I appreciate all you've done and continue to do. Music has consumed my life, and you've built the best venue around to present it, and you book some of my very favorite artists. When you're at a shed show you know you're there with a crowd that knows great
music. Thank you all so much." - Ron Dailey
See below to view show information and purchase tickets for July and August shows
September
3- Leon Russell
4- The Kentucky Headhunters
5- The Drunk Uncles
11- Husky Burnette
18- Black Oak Arkansas
25- Shed Customer Appreciation Night
October
2- Marshall Tucker Band
9- One Eighty Magazine Presents
16- DB Bryant
23- Mic Harrison and The High Score
30- Rock-n-Roll Heaven
General Information
Events will occur rain or shine
Gates open at 7pm; Music starts at 8pm
Free parking is available in both the front and back lots on site
Food and beverage are available for purchase on site at Stinkers BBQ. No outside food or beverages are allowed beyond the gates. Cash sales only
Tickets go on sale 30 days before show. Tickets will be available at www.SMH-D.com.
Motorcycle Ride Up Rate: Riders always receive a $5 discount for riding up to the show. Customers who ride to the event will receive a discounted ticket. The discount is available only at the Box Office Station at the gates the evening of the show (no advance sales). Discount applies per person not per bike. All riders are welcome!
The Shed is available for rent for both the outdoor and indoor facilities
Visit our Myspace page for pictures, videos and music at www.myspace.com/theshedatsmhd
For all booking or rental inquiries, please e-mail aaron.snukals@smh-d.com
The Shed 2010 Event Season is sponsored by:
July 2010
What: Trent Summar & The New Rob Mob with special guest The Black Cadillacs
When: July 31, 2010 - 8pm
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Price:$10, $5 ride up
Not that labels in music matter much — at least they shouldn’t — but Trent Summar has an evocative and altogether hard-to-resist term for the music he makes: Farm rock. That probably says it well enough. But in case further explanation helps, we’re talking about that intersection where Chuck Berry rock and George Jones country converge. We’re talking about love songs that veer off the beaten path with honest slices of rural imagery and humor. It’s a place on the musical map that’s entirely familiar but just a little too rowdy, a little too much fun (and in truth, too rooted in tradition) to be called mainstream country. Like the rural-Tennessee native’s earlier work, humorous tones run throughout the album Horseshoes & Hand Grenades. “I like a clever country song, and I don’t mean goofy songs … Of course, I’m the guy who wrote ‘Pink John Deere’,” Summar says of his ode to a female FFA honcho. Ken McMahan is on guitar. “He’s the best smash-mouth guitar player I’ve ever heard,” says Summar. That’s saying something, considering that former Georgia Satellites hero Dan Baird is in the band, too (“He’s not bad,” Summar says in obvious understatement.). Dave Kennedy, formally of Walk the West and the lone holdover from Summar’s debut release, is on drums while Michael “Supe” Granda, a founding member of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and co-writer of two of the album’s tracks, plays bass and provides background vocals. As good as the group is in the studio, Summar says it’s the live performance that reminds him how fortunate a front-man he is. “When I leave the stage after playing with these guys, I can be totally satisfied … It’s all I ever wanted to do.”
August 2010
What: Chris Knight with special guest Medford's Black Record Collection
When: August 7, 2010 - 8pm
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Price:$15, $10 ride up
Chris Knight is a singer/songwriter from the tiny mining town of Slaughters, KY, whose self-titled debut album invited comparisons to Steve Earle and John Prine. Knight started on his musical journey at just three years old when he requested a plastic guitar for Christmas. At 15, he became more serious when he began teaching himself dozens of John Prine songs on his older brother's guitar. After earning an agriculture degree from Western Kentucky University, Knight went to work in land reclamation, but in 1986 he heard Earle on the radio and decided to try his hand at writing songs.
After six years of perfecting his story songs about the downtrodden of small-town America, Knight came to Nashville and won a coveted spot on a songwriters' night at the Bluebird Cafe. Performing songs like "Framed," which would eventually wind up on his debut album, he caught the ear of Frank Liddell, who signed him to a publishing deal with Bluewater Music. Knight went back home and kept writing, and when Decca Records hired Liddell for an A&R position, Knight got a record deal. When Decca released his self-titled debut in 1997, Knight still lived in a house trailer on 90 acres in Slaughters. He has since become a popular name in Americana music, releasing four more albums: his 1998 self-titled sophomore effort, 2001's Pretty Good Guy, 2003's Jealous Kind, and 2006's Enough Rope. ~ Brian Wahlert, All Music Guide
What: Mustang Sally with special guest The Coveralls
When: August 13, 2010 - 8pm
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Price:$15, $10 ride up
Not just all across the United States, but around the world: five chicks rocking out, holding their own musically and vocally against anyone, male or female. Fun, flirty, and electrifying: it's Mustang Sally. Dynamic lead singer Tobi Lee (North Vernon, IN), sweet-voiced rhythm guitarist Brenda Zitzman (New Ulm, MN), fun-loving keyboard player Rachel Solomon (Austin, TX), and crazy fiddle player Sarah Wilfong (Chicago, IL), are all held together by the rock solid beat and harmony vocals of drummer Lisa Romeo (Omaha, NE).
Mustang Sally began as Lisa Romeo's inspiration, and she searched the world for the most talented female musicians and vocalists to carry out her vision. Among all five members of the band there is virtually every possible musical influence, including classic country, blues, jazz, Celtic, and rock n' roll. Each girl is talented enough in her own right to be a solo artist, and Mustang Sally blends that level of artistry into a sound that blows audiences away, playing everything from edgy country to southern rock, with the unexpected bluesy chord progression, R&B riff, or bluegrass twang worked in so effortlessly that one wonders why the tunes haven't ever been played like this.
What: Swampdawamp
When: August 14, 2010 - 8pm
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Upon hearing the name SwampDaWamp, you find yourself intrigued; it peaks your curiosity, who..what...is SwampDaWamp? The brain-child of lead singer Gig Michaels, Charlotte, North Carolina’s SwampDaWamp is the powerful and creative collaboration of six talented and seasoned musicians: Gig Michaels (lead vocals & acoustic guitar); David Lee (drums); Michael Hough (guitar & vocals); Keith Inman (guitar); Mike Huffman (keyboards, B3 & vocals); and Cody Bennett (bass). A band with an incomparable sound, the name instantly captures the band’s high-spirited energy & vibe. Not your typical run of the mill picture-perfect country-rockers, SwampDaWamp is an outside-the-box, real honest-to-goodness American band with an amazingly unique rock-country edge....and they are here for the party!
Boasting of influences that run the gamut of musical genres, SwampDaWamp, a band of southern-born and raised, country fried rockers have created a distinctive sound truly their own. Infused with everything from rock to country to blues, when you hear that fun-loving sound, you know without a doubt it is SwampDaWamp. Whether listening to their CDs or experiencing a live performance, fun is the name of the game with this band. While instantaneously becoming known for their party atmosphere, high energy live shows, SwampDaWamp have amassed a rapidly growing fan base. Their universally engaging appeal and contagious sound has touched people of all ages and backgrounds and turned them into instant fans.
What: Blackberry Smoke
When: August 21, 2010 - 8pm
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You can call Blackberry Smoke’s music southern rock and you wouldn’t be wrong. Or you could call it country and you wouldn’t be wrong, either. But you would be selling both the band and its legion of fans short. With influences that run the gamut from country to bluegrass to metal to gospel and yes, southern rock, Blackberry Smoke is more than the sum of its diverse parts.
The group, which is made up of Starr, sibling rhythm section Richard and Brit Turner (bass and drums, respectively) and guitarist Paul Jackson, formed in 2000 and quickly made an impact. Thanks to individual and shared reputations for entertaining, the foursome hit the road hard. “We had gigs right away,” says Richard, who with Brit had been in a popular Atlanta band that opened for national touring acts. “None of us have ever said, ‘Let’s be a southern rock band or a bluegrass band or a country band’,” Blackberry Smoke frontman Charlie Starr explains. “We all love the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Stones and the Faces and Hank Williams and Bill Monroe. It’s not about what kind of music it is, as long as it’s good and it’s honest. When we get together it just sounds the way it does.”
What: Billy Joe Shaver with special guest J.C. & The Dirty Smokers
When: August 28, 2010 - 8pm
Price:CANCELLED
SHOW CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS - All pre-purchased tickets will be refunded within the next 10 days. If you have any questions please contact us at (865) 977-1669.
Billy Joe Shaver never became a household name, but his songs -- including "Good Christian Soldier," "Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me," and "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" -- became country standards during the '70s and his reputation among musicians and critics didn't diminish during the ensuing decades. One of the best synopses of Shaver's upbringing is his own song, "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train." When he sings, "my grandma's old-age pension is the reason that I'm standing here today," he ain't kidding. The "good Christian raising" and "eighth grade education" -- not to mention being abandoned by his parents shortly after being born, working on his uncles' farms instead of going to high school, and losing part of his fingers during a job at a sawmill -- are all part of his life story. "I got all my country learning," he sings, "picking cotton, raising hell, and bailing hay." ~ Kurt Wolff, All Music Guide
