Weinheimer, along with bassist Chris Michaels and guitarist Charles Wyrick, will play a set on the front porch of Control Records in the Hillcrest area of Little Rock, 6 p.m. Thursday, March 4 for the neighborhood’s monthly Shop and Sip happy hour hang.
Jason Weinheimer
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50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
Here — in no particular order — are 50 Arkansas artists/musicians/podcasters who, thankfully, didn’t keep quiet this bizarro year. Tell us what we missed, find something you like, throw in the artist’s coffers what you can to support it, and pray like hell they’ll muddle through to a time when they can perform it for you in person.
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Compassion Works For All concert features sets from Big Piph, Greg Spradlin, Rodney Block
Compassion Works For All, a Little Rock-based organization that offers therapeutic programs to incarcerated people and others, is re-airing its virtual benefit concert, 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17.
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UAMS’ Dr. Cam Patterson plays guitar, and his band’s new album is fully of the moment
It doesn’t seem possible cultural products produced in 2020 are going to be able to pass by without reference to the pandemic.
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Greg Spradlin talks Jim Dickinson, converting from ‘Southern Baptist to Southern Buddhist’, and his long-time-coming album ‘Hi-Watter’
Despite a history packed with thwarted record contracts and wrong legal turns, the Pangburn (White County) native ended up making his dream record, mastered by Grammy winner Tchad Blake and tracked by a roster of musicians that includes the likes of David Hidalgo (Los Lobos), a good chunk of Elvis Costello’s backing band and a legendary but elusive B3 player, the late Rudy Copeland.
The Libras: Beatles vs. Stones
Central Arkansas’s finest (and least active) cover band, The Libras, returns to White Water Tavern for what’s becoming an annual tradition: a night devoted to the songs of widely beloved figures in pop music.
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Low Key Arts’ Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival in Hot Springs
Also, ‘Latino Leadership and the Cinco de Mayo in the American West,’ Pallbearer, ‘Bach in the Castle of Heaven,’ Weedeater, ‘My Scientology Movie,’ Argenta Artwalk, ‘Bunny Lake Is Missing,’ The Dead Deads, ‘Sing Out for the Buffalo’
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New music from Love Ghost, Liquid Skulls, Kidd B, Livesosa and more
Love Ghost has been around for several years but is rarely seen, could even be considered elusive. Helmed by Jason Weinheimer, of Fellowship Hall Sound and a thousand beloved local records, the band also includes — or has, in the past — Jesse Aycock and Jeff Matika and Eric Ardnt and Dylan Turner and Dave Easley. Here’s a great preview of their forthcoming album, “Skies Are Grey,” which you can expect sometime this spring.
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Friday To-Do: Steve Howell and The Mighty Men
Steve Howell performs at The Afterthought Friday.