Author: mclouse@livewire-chatt.com
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Where We Got Our Flavor On This Week: Mah Kin
By Lori Kyle Sometimes the best meals happen because two friends have had a DAMN DAY and need food STAT. My friend Darin and I had been running around, recovering from a long day and picking up a few Halloween treasures, including my new favorite decorative raven, Rowena. Anyway, back to the topic…by the time…
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Where We Got Our Flavor On This Week: Wako Japanese Restaurant
By Lori Kyle After a stressful workday, my work wife and friend, Tashanika and I decided there was only one reasonable solution: eat our feelings with all you can eat sushi at Wako. First, Wako is stunning with blue and coral colors, floating butterfly lights, beautiful art installations, and a sleek bar make the space…
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Lillian Album Review
By Jim Tanner Over the past several years, Chattanooga’s Lillian has become the go-to band for vampires, vampire-adjacent and the vampire-curious. According to the band’s guitarist/keyboardist Graham Courter, the trio even got their start two decades ago performing live accompaniment for a local screening of the classic 1922 silent horror film “Nosfaratu.” These guys know…
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Diamond Dogs
By Jim Tanner The subject of cover bands has caused angst in Chattanooga this year, with lots of online criticism of the Riverfront Nights concert series, which features a headline lineup composed exclusively of touring tribute acts. This lineup has caused more than a small amount of vitriol from local music fans on social media,…
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LILLIAN
New Wave in an Old World By: Douglas Bales The band Lillian defies definition in a lot of ways. Their sound is modern and also retrospective. They float through an atmosphere of thick mixes and songs that bring to mind groups like The Cure, The Church, Radiohead, Wire and New Order. But, they have a…
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Hidden Gem in a Coffee Shop: A Folk Art Museum
In an unexpected coffee shop called Caffeine Addicts in historic downtown Ringgold lies hidden a collection of folk art that rivals that of any gallery or museum. The collection belongs to local attorney McCracken Posten and illustrates his relationships with two eccentric men: legendary folk artist Reverend Howard Finster and local legend TV repairman Alvin…
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James Leg
The Rhodes Warrior By Douglas Bales James Leg is an enigma. He is arguably the most widely known artist to emerge from the Chattanooga music scene in the last couple of decades, but James Leg isn’t really his name. John Wesley Myers was born in Port Arthur, Texas. His father was a Baptist preacher, and…
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Gig City Customs
Soldering On By: Douglas Bales In 2017, Chattanooga native Greg Hembree left the world of suits, ties and office buildings to start his own business. With a lifelong love of woodworking and music, he decided to combine his passions into crafting custom guitars and started a boutique company called Hembree Guitars. A few years later…
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NO SURRENDER
THE STORY OF THE UNSATISFIED By: Douglas Bales Eric Scealf was born into the nether-regions of Chattanooga, TN and grew up in a duplex on the side of Highway 58. Like most kids in the 1970’s and ‘80’s, his head was filled with comic books, monster mags, and a never-ending stream of FM radio. Record…
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BOHANNONS
SIBLING REVELRY By: Douglas Bales Brothers, Marty and Matt Bohannon, both began learning to play guitar at fairly young ages. Luckily, for us music-lovers, the two decided to form a band. The Bohannons played their first show as a four-piece in 2006. Since then, they have become one of Chattanooga’s most popular and most prolific…