Two Doors Down goodness …
If you’ve never stopped by Two Doors Down, 118 E. Broadway Ave. in downtown Maryville, you’re missing out on a rowdy good time. The folks who run the place book live music at least three times a week and sometimes more often, and they’ve got some good stuff coming up:
- Friday, April 16, Texas bluesman Wes Jeans will rock the house. According to his online bio, he was ranked as one of the “Top Young Gun Guitar Players by Guitar Player Magazine in 2004, and back in 1996, he entered the International Jimi Hendrix Competition in Austin, placing second out of roughly 1,500 other guitarists. His bio states that “Al Hendrix, father of Jimi Hendrix, told Wes, ‘In my eyes, you won because you played straight from the heart like Jimi!’” The best part about it — that’s gonna be a free show. It starts at 9 p.m.
- Coming up at the end of April — April 29 and 30, to be exact — local Southern rock/country outfit The Dixie Highway Band will be shooting a video at the bar. Co-owner Jeff Breazeale tells us that the band has contracted with a Knoxville production company (still working on figuring out which one) is coming in to shoot the extravaganza, which will be part documentary, part live show. It’ll be called “Two Nights at Two Doors,” and the band is trying to get as many fans as possible to pack the joint. There will be a $5 cover, and merchandise touting participation in the video shoot will be sold. In addition, several guests will sit in with the band, including Breazeale (who fronts his own outfit, Dixie Werewolves), local harp man Doug Harris and Dale T. Sharp. Local actors David Dwyer and Bruce McKinnon will also be a part of the night’s events, and the video will splice interviews with band members into its shots of the crowd and the show. “We want to have a big crowd with everybody dancing and raising hell for that,” Breazeale says.
- Finally, Breazeale’s annual “Boogie on Broadway” (formerly “Boogie on the Bridge”) concert is set for Sunday, May 30. It’s an all-day event, and tickets are $10 — but that gets you all the barbecue you can eat and 10 bands performing throughout the day, including the Werewolves, Dixie Highway, The Reigns Band, Nuthin’ Fancy, Phillip and Valerie Sharp and others to be named later.