On Sounds Good, Tracy Ross and Ted Franklin Belue preview the Roots 7 concert happening November 15th at 7:30 p.m. in Lovett Auditorium.
Murray State University’s Department of History hosts their seventh ROOTS concert featuring Derek Hoke performing a fusion of country, blues, and swing.
“He needs to be better known, I think he will be known. The people in Nashville that make a lot of the business decisions hold him in very high regard,” Belue said. “He’s just a real road warrior out there playing all the time and honing his chops, kind of a throw back to the old days when you really just had to get a U-Haul trailer and a PA and just start playing. And that’s what he does.”
The Kenny and Amanda Smith Band will perform bluegrass. Kenny has won the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitarist of the Year Award three times and his wife Amanda has won IBMA’s Female Vocalist of the year twice, Belue says.
Admission is free with a suggested donation of canned goods for Needline.