River City Sessions will be held Thursday, Jan. 12, at Granfalloon. It will feature the Bluegrass Band Connection 27, Webb Baringer and Corrie White. Admission is $5. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.
Review for the performers:
Connection 27 was formed in June of 2014. Its founding members are Jimmy Redden, John Shook, Tim Smith, and Jeff Graves. Doug Barron joined the band playing fiddle and adding vocals in December of 2015. Their inspirations are bands that have a “drive” and a “feel” that make you want to move in your seat, bands like Lonesome River Band, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, and Sideline. They strive to achieve a sound that is mainly a hard driving mix of traditional and progressive bluegrass and bluegrass gospel without going too far away from the roots of bluegrass. Three of the five members have been in professional touring bands in the past and they use that experience to arrange their music a certain way.
Stir up a pot of blues, folk and rock, top it off with homegrown lyrics, season it with a bit of harmonica and you have Webb Baringer. A talent from Chattanooga, he has blasted on the scene.
Poet Corrie White was on the show a few months ago and has been picked up by the Chattahatchie Review. She will do a reading, act as co-host and has a surprise cooked up.
RCS at The Hunter will be held Jan. 26 with Spirits of the Forest featuring Robin Burke, Holli Richey, and Michael Gray.