Cody Parson and the Heavy Change "THE DAY TOM PETTY DIED" LikethedayTomPettyDied
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With her heart on her wrists she got tired of my slips
She packed up and went on her way Too many strings of bad luck it was jus too much she couldn’t take it no another
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But my story went on I started singing new songs meet me a fine girl that treated me right But sometimes boy I get caught up thinkin bout the day Tom Petty Died
And so years they went by we moved on with our lives but sometimes I’m caught in those days Jus a boy and a girl wrapped up in rock n roll songs makin magic ‘for we parted ways But now our planets on fire you know people are dying but one thing crosses my mind A lot of things changed the world ain't the same since the day Tom
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TB & The Fuzz is a local band consisting of front man/bassist Tyler “TB” Baxter, guitarist Matt “The Fuzz” Robertson, and drummer Zach Sharp.
The bio on TB & The Fuzz’s social media reads “Alternative Rock for the new lost generation,” a phrase that Tyler was eager to explain.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. In the mid-to-late 1920s, in the lost generation- writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald mostly wrote about their angst, their pain, all of it. There are things that are happening today that echo those sentiments, and I feel like writing songs that combat that angst is really important.”
TB & The Fuzz started as a solo endeavor, but Tyler struggled to find the right person to create the sound he was looking for. “I knew that Matt was the best person to do it, so I just had him hop on,” says Tyler, about his musical relationship with Matt Robertson, “and I haven’t had anybody play with me since.”
A Conversation with Tyler Baxter of “TB & The Fuzz”
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When asked which artists most closely influenced the sound of the band, Tyler noted the influence of Rush, Alice in Chains, and Queens of the Stone Age. Tyler also mentioned the other members’ influences- Zach drawing inspiration from Dave Matthews Band and Blue October, and Matt preferring the genres of indie rock and metal. “In all music, there’s always this sort of ‘a-ha!’ moment where you figure out why a song clicks with people,” says Tyler, “but I try to pick the things that click with those bands and emulate them in what we do.”
Currently, the band is working to create a social media presence for themselves, mostly making content about themselves on YouTube. Videos can be found of the band on the TB & The Fuzz YouTube channel, both concerning their music (music videos, lyric videos, etc.) as well as videos introducing the members.
“If I had to give advice for every single creative out there,” says Tyler, “it would be this: don’t wait. Do it. Fail at it, and then fail better the next time. Because, if you don’t do it, no one’s gonna know. No one’s going to get to see that. And worse, you’ll just torture yourself with the thought of what could have been. So don’t wait.”
You can find TB & The Fuzz’s singles “Know your worth” and “Stitched up” on Spotify and Youtube, and all of their links through the QR code on the page.
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When musician Lillicat says she thinks about music all the time, she’s not exaggerating. She thinks in a language that is not made of words but made instead of music. “The weirdest thing is I always, always hear music. It doesn't stop,” said Lillicat, a 26-year-old Clarksvilleraised singer, songwriter and guitarist. “My brain is constantly like a radio that doesn't shut off.” But this “radio” plays only brand-new music: music Lillicat is composing in real time. “It might not be lyrics but a beat that I have. And I'll put it in my voice notes, and I'll be like, ‘Oh, that sounds really cool. I like that! Hold on,’” she said. “That's actually how I wrote a lot of my songs.”
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“Generally, an artist will come to me with some lyrics and melodies and maybe an acoustic guitar, piano, and from there we'll build,” Layne Robertson, her producer said. and. ”Do they want a ton of harmonies, or do they want it stripped down and intimate?
Huge production? And from there we'll just start creating. I'll play the bass and guitar and keys and then if we need to hire nine people, we'll do that as well. It's just as it happened, Lillicat’s entry point to making music was not a musical instrument, but a phone.
“When I was a kid, I had this really bad flip phone and I was really excited because I'm like, ‘I can sing in it!’ I was humbled really quickly, because you're not used to hearing your voice, especially singing,” she said. “After that I was like oh well, I want to get better. So, all I did was just continue to record myself on every phone I've ever gotten. That's how I taught myself.”
When she was still a child, Lillicat performed on some daunting stages She auditioned for “America’s Got Talent” as well as “The Voice” several times, with positive feedback, but no callbacks. As a young adult she performed at The Gilroy’s open mic, later Revel House’s Tap the Mic, then Tour de Ville. She worked with sound engineer, songwriter and videographer Layne Robertson of Clarksville’s own Contra Coda Media, and he saw something special in her right away But Lillicat resisted going further with her music, flirting instead with giving up music entirely.
Layne reopened the door by convincing her to revive a series of projects they had once begun, making music videos of Lillicat performing songs by her favorite musicians, like Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish “They're both very inspirational to me,” Lillicat said But Layne was really interested in pursuing Lillicat’s original work.
“I told her, ‘Hey, let's just do it. Let's do it. I really believe in you,’” Layne said. “And she's really hesitant for a long time I just kept bothering her and telling her ‘No, you need to get this out in the world. Yeah, you need to create. This is what you're here for.’ And eventually she gave in. And here we are today!”
Where they are today is sitting pretty atop a stack of stunning original music that Lillicat and Layne have brought into being together. At Contra Coda, Layne helps musicians turn ideas into songs.
Jim Kaufman then does the mixing and mastering, and plans for a music video may follow.
Lillicat will release a full album of new music over the course of 2023, one delicious song at a time.
Look for the addictive “Happy” and “American Prophet” among the tasty releases coming soon...
“I love these songs so much, so I really hope that everyone else loves them, too,” she said. “They're just thoroughly special to me. Every song I write is really special to me.”
Layne sees Lillicat possessing a skill even more important than singing or incisive songwriting. “Her drive.Is insane. She is writing constantly. Every moment of her life Is based around her music. And that's something that I don't think enough people have. I just think she's an incredible singer. And her performances are awesome. She has so much energy and she interacts with the crowd. It's really cool. But I definitely think her drive sets her apart. There are over 100,000 songs released every day on Spotify… but not everyone has the follow through. She does.”
Lillicat further has a full-time job writing songs for other artists through Curation. She said she’s able to hand over her work to another musician because that song “wasn’t for me.” She and Layne just returned from their most recent trip to LA, where collaboration with other artists was the prime directive.
“All musicians should really start writing with each other. Yes, write for yourself, but don't close that opportunity,” Lillicat said. “Share your knowledge with people. People have so much knowledge that they can share. And it just makes you a better artist.”
Fortunate for locals, Clarksville is already rocking a scene of collaboration and band-to-band support.
“I think what’s really cool about Clarksville is the community is just so supportive. We really do try to uplift each other." Lillicat said. “It’s a big thriving community. I’m really thankful for everyone in it that puts stuff together to keep it going. Cody (Parson) does a really good job just trying to create shows for everybody and I’m thankful for him. Yeah, Cody’s awesome. I'm thankful for Dawn (owner of Revel House). There are so many people that I'm genuinely thankful for in Clarksville, if you look, you'll find it. You know, you'll find your people”
Lillicat embodies magnetic energy. Her vocal style pulls listeners in with a warmth that feels familiar, while also awakening their excitement with an edge of confident invention: Lillicat’s voice is wholly her own She is experimenting with ways to make her already thrilling live show even more unforgettable.
“I want to make it really different, unique,” she said.
She’s working with Sam Isaacs and Darius Dawson to create the three-piece show. And, truly, there’s nothing she would rather do.
“Music is what makes life fun. If you don't have it, it's not the same. If you've ever been to a party, any party, and the speaker stops: it's a completely different vibe. It's not the same. But once you turn on the music, that allows people space for connection ”
Lillicat sees Clarksville as the perfect incubator to grow that space.
“We have this music scene where everyone goes and plays, and it creates this big bubble of connection I saw that especially at Possum Stock. Most of the people there are really good musicians, but man, was I under the tent hugging people and laying on them and making connections? Absolutely!”
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Lillicat recalled another local music festival that defies mediocrity by its very existence.
“Look at Tour de Ville. We're an army on bikes! How does that even happen? It blows my mind really: bikes, skateboards, scooters, even some people just drive, you know, and it's because music creates connection, and we all want connection. People that say they want to be alone. I don't believe that. I feel everyone wants some type of connection. Music creates that space where you can make so many friends. It's overwhelming, and it's just love.”
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When singer-songwriter Caleb Stevens, front man for the band OF WATER, steps on stage and strums the first chord on his guitar, plays the first bar on his harmonica, or sings the first note of a song, you might think he’s channeling the great Bob Dylan. Maybe it’s the harmonica. Maybe it’s the folk undertones permeating through his vocal cords. Or maybe that particular Travelling Wilbury is one of Caleb’s many musical influences.
Caleb is a melting pot of musical styles. In addition to channeling Dylan, Caleb proudly proclaims that he has The Beatles in his DNA, and that The Strokes have also shaped his sound over the years. If you listen closely, you can also hear modern Indie rock influences subtly making appearances. Listen close enough and you’ll hear undertones of Wilco, alt-J, Portugal. The Man, Band of Horses, and The National. These artists may have influenced Caleb, but he has created his own unique sound, and he owns that. “Music producer Rick Rubin said, ‘If you talk to any indie rap artist right now, they will tell you that they are bigger than Biggie and Tupac. But if you talk to any indie rock artists, they’ll never tell you they’re as good as the Beatles, or Led Zepplin, or Pink Floyd.’ And he’s right. If people don’t believe in their music 100 percent, if they really don’t believe they’re making something really important, then they won’t make it,” Caleb says of the music industry.
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Caleb’s wife Kayla recoginized and believed in his talent and unique sound early on in their relationship, and she has been his biggest fan and supporter ever since. Caleb recounts a particular story with a bit of a chuckle. “My wife says that on one of our first dates, when we went back to my apartment, I did the cheesy musician guy thing where a guitar is placed somewhere. She said she was ‘so cringe’ because she didn’t know how she was going to react.
But she says as soon as I played the first song, she knew I didn’t suck.” Sometimes Kayla brings up that not ‘so cringe’ date, but only to remind Caleb that he’s good at what he does and that she still believes in him, his music, and his talent. Not only is she supportive of his musical career, she’s also his business partner. She takes care of his social media and branding. “She’s always there with me,” Caleb says. Kayla is also the one who encouraged their move from Minnesota to Clarksville in December 2020. Not long after the family made the move, Caleb began performing at open-mic nights around Clarksville and Nashville. Before he knew it, he was playing shows at Revel House, The Thirsty Goat, Riverfest, and Possumstock. When he’s not playing in Clarksville, he can be found on stage in Nashville and Kentucky.
On each stage that Caleb performs on, he not only brings his distinctive sound, but he also brings an openness that only an authentic singer-songwriter can. His lyrics are the stories of his past, his former experiences, and causes that are meaningful to him. “I love that the gift of music is not having a visual that allows you to put a curtain in front of things. Of being able to write a song that sounds happy, but the lyrics are sad. You really have to listen because it is an extra dimension of a complicated piece.”
“PromisedBlankets”isoneofthesongsonhisEPbythesamename,anditmanifeststhatextra dimension.I’mnotthesamethatIamonmostdays/todayI’venoplaceintherain/butIcan’t complain/throughmywindowI’veheardtracesofsuchlovelyrefrain.“PromisedBlankets”lures thelistenerintoafalsesenseofcomfort.Maybeit’sthemusic.Maybeit’sthelyrics.Maybeit’s both.Whateveritis,itisdefinitelyafalsesenseofcomfort. ThoselyricsarebasedonhisreminiscentofthethreemonthshelivedinFrance.In2013,not longafterhebackpackedthroughEuropewithhisbestfriend,hepackedupandmovedto Francealonewithdreamsofwritinganovel.Perisianstreetsandmelancholydon’tseemtogo together,unlessyouexperienceFrancelikeCalebdid.
Hisapartmentwasn’treadywhenhearrived,sohehadtomovebetweenhostelsandhotels almosteverydayfortwoweeks.“Itrainedeverydaythosefirsttwoweeks,andIwaswalking aroundFrancecarryingallmystuffintherain.”Calebsayshewasmelancholythosefirsttwo weeksand“verymelancholy”duringthelastmonthhewasinFrance.“IwouldlistentoAbout Today[byTheNational]everydayforamonth.It’saspecialsongtome.IalwaysthinkofFrance whenIhearit,ofmebeingmelancholywhilewalkingdownaParisianstreetbymyself,not writingchapters,justkickingarock,”hehalf-jokinglysays.“Iwouldstumbleinachurchandthe priestswouldbesinginginLatinandthey’reallfour-partharmoniesanditwouldbemind blowingtohearthistypeofart,andjustlookingaroundatthebuildingsisenoughtoliftyour spirits.”ToCaleb,Franceisthesongthatsoundshappy,butthelyricsaresad.
Calebembodiesthetroubadoursofoldandnewwithhisuniquesoundcoupledwithdeep, meaningfulautobiograhpicallyrics.Heisarefreshingadditiontoanyplaylist.
Caleb,alongwithhisband,OFWATER,alreadyhavegigsbookedfor2023.Youcancatchthe performancesJanuary1atTheThirstyGoat,January12atTheCommodoreinNashville,andat TheThirstyGoatagainonMarch5.
FollowCalebandOFWATERonInstagram@calebdstevensand@ofwater_music.
Tohear“PromisedBlankets”andothersongswrittenandperformedbyCalebgoto https://ofwater.bandcamp.com/album/promised-blankets-ep
“It’s really like a zen thing for me, a meditation. I gotta be right THERE. And that’s not to say I take it too seriously, but I’m trying to contribute to something bigger than I am, you know?”
Sam Haines is describing how it feels to jam onstage with The Nightmasters, but he might as well be speaking about the decades he’s spent contributing to Clarksville’s music scene as a whole. At 62 years old, his shoulder-length mane of graying hair and bright blue eyes seem at once those of a seasoned sage and a mischievous teenager. Sarcastic yet kind, irreverent but loyal, Haines possesses a quick, razor-sharp sense of humor and a rockstar’s swagger. From the Ballistic Pintos to the Beagles, Sam Haines has played with a staggering amount of local talent over the last 40 years.
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“I was too short to play basketball and too scared to play football, and I wanted to get some attention!” deadpans Haines, recounting the start of his interest in guitar at age 14. “A friend of mine named Chris Bagwell, who I’m still friends with to this day, would sit out in his garage and play acoustic guitar in his garage and I’d go by and hear him. He lent me a guitar and showed me three or four chords. I blame him for every trainwreck in my life since. I’d go home after school with a friend of mine, Albert Hitchison, and we’d take turns dropping the needle on an LP and try to emulate the Eagles, you know, the Doobie Brothers, and of course Lynyrd Skynyrd. Southern rock and soul music, you know- like the Jackson Five. Since I was little, I thought they were the coolest damn thing in the world!”
Haines still carries those early impressions in his playing. “On electric guitar, there’s no denying the influence of southern rock on my playing, and I’m grateful for that! I found out later a lot of that stuff came from the blues. I grew up in a time where there were so many different types of music on the radio- you might hear an R&B song followed by a rocker, followed by an americana type song, you know, acoustic, and all that kinda went into the stew for me.”
As luck would have it, Haines soon made another decision that would take him further into music. “When I was about 16, I got a job at Collins Music downtown, and a guy named Ken Howell was working there. He and I made a deal- I would push my lawn mower down to his house and cut his lawn, and he’d show me some chords He was a huge early influence on me He was into songwriter stuff- John Prine, Guy Clark, Ann Fogelberg. To this day I have reverence for people who write songs There are people who can say so much with a few words. I’m not one of them obviously,” Haines says with a wry grin. “Working at Collins, musicians would come in and out all the time, and sometimes I’d get a call, ‘Hey, can you come play this square dance on Saturday night in Fredonia?’ I was probably a junior in high school by that time. I was just mostly playing rhythm then,” Haines says. “There’s a guy here in town named Edwin Merrero, and I walked into Collins one day and he’s sitting there playing a riff from an Edgar Winter song called Free Ride. My jaw dropped and I said, ‘How do you do that?’ I still use that riff! To have those people take a few minutes to show me things have been huge- and it still happens today!”
Soon after leaving high school, Haines met someone who would have a lifetime impact on him. “I met Ken Jolly when I was just out of high school. I think it was 1979. Ken had a six-night-aweek gig down at the Holiday Inn by Two Rivers Mall. He was very nice to me. I’d go in there and he’d ask me to sit in with him, and I learned a lot! Here we are after all these years, still paying together!”
By the mid 80’s, Haines was playing in a lot of cover bands on a frequent basis. It was during this time that Haines met Cindy Dee. “She’s just the loveliest of human beings. She was in a band called the Beagles, which was an institution in this part of the country. Ivan Colon, Bo Welsh, Kenny Copeland were in that band. I’d get a call every now and then from Rick Goodwin, their guitar player, to fill in for him, which was such an honor because they were so great, and so much fun to play with!” Working with Cindy gave Haines another creative outlet: creating original songs. “I don’t really consider myself a songwriter,” Haines explains. “I don’t write much on my own, but I have co-written quite a bit Of anything I’ve been involved in writing, I’m most proud of working with her!”
In 1993 Haines left Clarksville and moved to Paris Landing. “I was running the bars there, you know, and there were a couple bands out there that were basically blues bands, just guitar, bass, and drums- and these guys were just tearing it up! Really authentic, raw. I was really taken with it.” Haines had stopped playing out when he’d left Clarksville, but soon began again around the West Tennessee area. “It was mainly an economics thing- I needed to make some money! I dusted off the guitar, put some new strings on, worked up 20 or thirty songs and went to make some cash to pay the light bill!” Around 2009, Haines found himself back playing in his hometown. “I started playing back up in Clarksville with a band called Mystery, who had a female vocalist named Dee Miller. Absolutely incredible singer. After that Ken Jolly and I reconnected after all those years and started playing out as an acoustic duo. We were just playing stuff we loved- old blues and southern rock. By that time, Ken had really gotten taken by the blues!”
Around 2010, Haines had an experience that was especially significant for him and would change forever how he approached playing music. “I started playing with the Ballistic Pintos (Founded by songwriters Bobby Keel, Kenny Baggett and the late Wayne Brown). They were playing mostly their own original material. I played a couple of gigs with them, and,” Haines pauses for emphasis. “I’ll never forget this! After one of those gigs, I told one of them if you’ll give me recordings of these songs, I’ll work up leads for them the way you have them on the records. I think it was Bobby Keel who said, ‘No man, no. I want YOU to play it the way YOU play it!’ That was one of the most liberating moments in my entire career. It was a gift! I wasn’t trying to emulate somebody.”
That encouragement came at a perfect time- Haines was soon invited to play in a new group called The Nightmasters, a smoking hot blues and southern rock band. “We started in 2015. Ken Jolly on guitar, Tim Seay on drums, and myself on guitar as well. Alan Goines played bass in the beginning, and then later on Isaac Frost, along with Henry Rives on sax and John Hassell on keys and harmonica Those guys aren’t just great musicians, they’re a lot of fun to hang out with! We’re not trying to change the world, we're just having a good time and try to bring half the crowd with us, and it happens quite a bit! Lucky me, right? The Night Masters never rehearsed- we just played what came to us on the fly. The thing was with them that there was never a point where I had to think, ‘I need to play this exactly like so-and-so played it.’ We just let whatever happened happen.” That wasn’t the only impact playing with the Nightmasters had on Haines. “It was early on that Henry Rives started playing with us. Henry was like my favorite nephew, I loved him dearly He stood right next to me almost every gig we played And of course with him being a sax player- sax is a whole other world than playing guitars you know? Standing next to Henry had a HUGE impact on my playing. We had so much fun riffing on one another. When you’re playing guitar, you know, you look at the fretboard and you're looking at boxes (scale patterns). Sax players don’t think like that. They don’t think inside that limitation. They're all over the place! And that just really knocked my socks off! The way he would phrase and the way he would approach melodies- I’d play la-da-la-da-la, and he’d go la-la-da-la,” Haines sings a wordless scale; emulating Rives jazzy improvisations “I’d think about it pretty often after a show- you know if Henry hadn’t been there, I’d NEVER have played THAT part THAT way. He added a lot to me in terms of spontaneity. God, I miss Henry,” says Haines, the memory of losing his friend and bandmate in March of 2022 still fresh.
Sam lists Jamming in the Alley as one of his favorite events to play, an event where strawberry alley was blocked off and turned into an outdoor music festival prior to the Downtown Commons venue. He also lists Old Glory Distillery as one of his favorites: “It’s an all-ages show, a beautiful place, and the people that run it are awesome- they treat everyone top-notch. One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen was there,” Haines smiles at the thought “We were playing and there were like 10 or 20 kids out there dancing and playing in front of the stage I sat down on the edge of the stage, reached down, and let them come up and just beat the hell out of my guitar- it was neat man! Main Street Guthrie- we have a frickin’ ball up there. We played the Hot August Blues fest- it was unbelievable! There were some other, just stunning, bands playing up there with us too. One of the biggest audiences we ever played for was Picking on the Porch at MB Roland Distillery. I mean, you could NOT see the end of ‘em. It was a couple thousand people. I don’t get stage fright very much - but man…” Haines trails off, shaking his head. “But if i had to name a favorite, it would be the BWC Toy Run- and I’ll tell you why: the sound and lights are always great, the crowd is always fantastic, and that is one of the few times a year that a lot of the musicians from here are in the same place at the same time. You get to hang out and the fellowship is huge And they raise a TON of money for charity They don’t take a dime out of it either ” As someone who’s had over four decades of playing under his belt, Haines is optimistic about the future of the music in Clarksville. “I’m an old guy, so I don’t get out as much, but some of these younger acts that are around here just blow me away, like wow, you know? Lucian, i mean, what can you say? Daniel Ledbetter, Brit Dewey, and that bunch…such formidable songwriters. I heard Brit Dewey sing some of her songs at Poorman’s the other night, and I’m just standing there with my jaw on the floor. I’m not exposed to as much rock around here, but I heard JJ Hankins briefly a couple times and he’s good. Cody Parsons and his bunch- man I dig it!”
“The interesting thing about the music community in Clarksville, they support one another.
When something happens where they can do some good, they circle the wagons and make it happen. I think that’s different from a lot of other places, and I’ve been the beneficiary of that. I had a daughter that passed away in 2015 at 25 years old. Within hours of word getting out, its like all these people are making things happen and trying to help raise funds for the funeral. I’ve never been in a situation where I truly didn’t know what to do, and I didn’t even have to ask. If I’m ever having a bad day; I just think about that. There are people around here that do that, and a lot of them are musicians in Clarksville. When the phone rings now for something like that, you know, it’s an opportunity to give a little back.”
During the pandemic, Haines had the opportunity to pursue another milestone in his career “I started picking up an acoustic guitar and fleshing some stuff out. Just me on acoustic guitar. Kinda scary, actually,” Haines quips. “I ended up recording seven or eight original songs at Jeff Offutt’s Ravens Room studio in Hendersonville. Other than mixing it down it’s pretty much ready to go, we’ll probably have it ready to go in midFebruary. I’ll put out there on whatever platforms I can.
Some of this was influenced by stuff from way back in the early days- like Patrick Simmons, the Doobie Brothers guitar player. On almost every one of their albums there’s an instrumental song of just his guitar playing I always loved that stuff. That was some influence.”
The majority of the album’s influence, however, came from somewhere else: “A few years back Joan, my wife, lived in Hawaii. For Christmas one year, she gave me a compilation album of Hawaiian slack key guitar music. Slack key guitar is native to Hawaii- its straightforward guitar but they use all these really interesting different tunings. And I just fell in love with this stuff! It’s so pleasant to listen to. Like Jim Kimo West. He won a Grammy for slack key guitar. As a matter of fact at our wedding, when Joan walked down the aisle, we used a slack key guitar song. The artist was Keola Beamer It’s not complicated, not a bunch of trickery, you know, technically, it’s just…beautiful.”
On the tails of that project, Haines has another in the works “There’s a batch of material I always wanted to play with a band. It’s not stuff most people would be familiar with, so I never had the chance to play it with a group. I just thought it would be real cool to batch this stuff up and get a group of guys to record it with me. I’d love to get Heath Rives in on it. He’s got skills, man I could just tell him to put some horns on it and I know it would be incredible. There’s an old Faces song, some old James Gang songs that are really cool, and the J. Geils Band. The J.Geils Band was one of the coolest live acts ever, man. Stuff like that, from the 70’s. I think that would be really cool to do.”
When asked what advice he’d offer to a new musician or band looking to grow around Clarksville, Haines responds, “You know, me giving advice is a felony! You can practice but there comes a point that you gotta get out and play with people who can help you grow as a musician. Learn as much as you can, but a lot of the learning will come by doing. Get out and play, make plenty of mistakes- get it wrong man! But keep going.” Haines pauses and grins, using that dry humor to drive home his point: “Some people live and learn-and some people just keep living!”
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I’ve been playing drums since I was about 8, so nearly 15 years. I started off playing for the church I grew up in with my dad, who plays bass.
I mainly played drums in a church setting until I got into high school and decided to do band. Through marching band, I finally met people who had similar interests in wanting to start bands and jam out in each other's garages.
Two of those friends in particular were Canaan and Caleb, who still to this day I play with in Heads Against a Flower.
- My biggest influences as a drummer would be Stewart Copeland, Jimmy Chamberlin, Ronnie Vannucci Jr., Dave Grohl, Bill Stevenson, and Patrick Keeler.
- Right now, I use my Tama Imperialstar as my gigging kit, and I have a Yamaha Oak custom that I keep at home. I use a 20” koi series Wuhan China, a 20” Zildjian dark custom ride, 15” Sabian groove hi-hats, and an 18” Sabian crash. I use Stewart Copeland’s signature Tama snare drum, and my go to sticks are Vic Firth 5 a’s
- Currently I’m in three bands: Heads Against a Flower, Stray Nova, and Cody Parson and The Heavy Change
- My Favorite thing about the Clarksville music scene is the sense of community it has, and the amount of support that comes from the people who come out to shows when they could be doing literally anything else.
- My favorite shows to play are house shows. The vibes are always better when everyone is closer, and it allows the band and audience to feed off each other in a way that other shows can’t live up to.
- The bands Spotify told me I listened to the most this year were Deftones, the Strokes, Pedro the Lion, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Smashing Pumpkins
Josh is one of this music scene's most amazing drummers.
I'm hoping to add this as a regular feature, so I think this drummer is a great place to start! Who is Josh Lannom and what's going on with him as and his drums? Let's let him tell us...
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