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Classic Nelson to play Classic City

Willie Nelson has a guitar so old and exhausted that he’s worn a hole in the wooden body. Covered in signatures, he bends out Mexican-style sonatas on the instrument like a braided Mozart, and when he does, people like Johnny Cash get misty-eyed watching him do it. In his life, "Outlaw" Willie Nelson has looked [...]

The eclectic sound of Earth Collective’s Hip-Hop Ground Under

On Tuesday night in Memorial Hall, hundreds of student gather in collared shirts and sundresses for a meeting. Quietly, they mill around, conversing, naively unaware that three floors above a musical beast of multiple shades and acclaim is plugging in its microphones.   On the fifth floor, eclectic hip-hop act Earth Collective gathers around two [...]

2nd Annual Edward Wright Memorial Afrocentric Festival

Edward Wright was not a civil-rights leader or community fixture, but all day Saturday, Athens residents will celebrate under a festival that bears his name. In a world where young men like Wright die everyday, a Festival of his name is monumental.   One day five years ago, at a time when few people were [...]

Athens All-Stars gear up

Every week, the brave souls of Carlton Owens and Jason Fuller walk into an arena with no game plan. Every week, they march onto the field of battle with their instruments of war, but with no direction from their general. For musicians of their caliber, this isn’t stress. It’s fun. Owens, a drummer, and Fuller, [...]

Torino makes grand entrance

A Long Island Iced Tea is a drink created by mixing in almost every strain of alcohol in your liquor cabinet. To make a musical equivalent of the drink, walk into a record store and slide every hip-hop, jazz, R&B and funk record available into your CD player. Shake in a shot of ice-cold jazz [...]

Drinking Up: A guide to bars in the Classic City

What’s more important than impressing your friends? OK, other than that, isn’t presenting a storage of knowledge beyond the reach of those around you an important part of life? To impress people, you learn. You’ve spent enough time memorizing the dictionary and the words to ‘Purple Rain.’ You know a bunch but not everything. And [...]

A musical welcome back to Athens

Until The Red & Black publishes again Aug. 17, plenty of traveling troubadours known as rock groups will pass through Athens. The following is a smattering of what will be available for your cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking background music pleasure.   ä The local radio promotion group Team Clermont will celebrate their third birthday with a two-day [...]

Battle Royalty

Now that Elian is gone, the word in everyone’s mouth is Napster. The center of the media’s attention in recent weeks, Napster is an Internet tool that when downloaded, allows users to search and obtain music for free. The company was started by 19-year-old Shawn Fanning. This spring, rapper Dr. Dre and the rock group [...]

Patti Smith

Patti Smith’s mind is her freewheeling Fender Stratocaster. She wields it as Hendrix would a guitar, fusing her mind and music with passion and creativity. Smith, a poet and legendary rock figure who helped define alternative music, will play the 40 Watt Club early next week. She has carved out a reputation that has ensured [...]

The battle of the beats

There won’t be any screaming news conferences, shiny shorts, or Pay Per View coverage, but tonight a duo of sweaty heavyweights will go at it in downtown Athens. And they’ll be swinging sticks.   Two of Athens’ most accomplished drummers will face each other in a drum battle between a performance by The Park Bench [...]

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