Crystal Brown's Profile

If you have not yet experienced The Harmed Brothers, this up and coming, head-turning, hard-working, and dedicated band must be your next adventure. I had my first encounter last year at The Whispering Beard Festival and was instantly addicted. Traveling all the way across the nation from Oregon,...

It is that time of year again!  It is Beard-thirty time!  Dust off those beards, air out those tents, and clean out your coolers.  It is time to get ready for another grand old time at the annual Whispering Beard Folk Festival in Friendship, Indiana.  Bring your beards or borrow a friend’s...

Out of the sweaty and mosquito filled summers of Mobile, Alabama, Perry siblings, Kimberly (lead vocals/guitar/piano), Reid (bass/vocals), and Neil (mandolin/drums/accordion/vocals) make up The Band Perry. Put to bed with the Rolling Stones and woken up to Loretta Lynn, they inherited the love of a...

Who sold more records than any other artist of the ‘80s?  Who had 21 straight number one singles?  Who had ten multi-platinum albums?  Alabama is arguably one of the most popular country groups in history.  Formed in Fort Payne, Alabama in 1969, cousins, Randy Owen (lead vocals, rhythm...

The husband and wife duo Keifer and Shawna Thompson make up Thompson Square. Keifer, from Oklahoma, and Shawna, from Alabama, both growing up in rural small towns, moved to Nashville the exact same week, met at a singing competition, and have been inseparable since.  In 2010, they released their...

Before there was the infamous haunted Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder, there was Robert Randall Mackey, the country music singer.  Otherwise known as “Bobby,” Mackey was born in Lewis County, Kentucky in 1948, instantly cherishing music of Hank Williams on the Jukebox and the Grand Ole...

If you are a fan of Jake Owen’s Barefoot Blue Jean Night or Eli Young Band’s Even If It Breaks Your Heart, then you are already a fan of Eric Paslay’s work – he co-wrote them all.  Growing up in Texas, with plenty on the radio such as the influences of Rich Mullins, Rodney Crowell, and...

Leave behind the fast-paced, busy today, and travel to a time when people played music on their back porches for the simple love of music, and family and friends entertained each other through sing-alongs.  Since 2007, the Tillers have been doing just that.  Beginning on Ludlow Street in Clifton,...

Reining out of Denmark, traversing an ocean, trading their home continent for ours, David Boyd and Soren Hansen made their music dreams become their reality.  Picking up Louis Vecchio here in the U.S., the trio makes up New Politics.  With much talent and a bit of luck, in just a few short years,...

Straight out of the streets of Wilmette, just north of Chicago, Fall Out Boy emerged from the underground hardcore punk scene with vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist/lyricist Pete Wentz, drummer Andrew Hurley, and guitarist Joe Trohman in 2001, with their melody-soaked pop-punk.  Two years...

If you are looking for a remedy to ail your music needs, Old Crow Medicine Show is the answer.  The quintet (Critter Fuqua, Keven Hayes, Morgan Jahnig, Ketch Secor, and Willie Watson), all from different states, formed in New York fifteen years ago.  After busking on the streets of New York and...

Kids of all of ages grow up wanting to be one of the greats like Michael Jordan.  That’s exactly the same goal of the Cincinnati rock band, Foxy Shazam.  They want to be the greatest band of all time.  In 2004, straight out of the streets of Cincinnati, Eric Sean Nally (lead vocals), Loren...