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Though Blackfoot is primarily known for their harder rock sound, members of Blackfoot did play for a time with Lynyrd Skynyrd and other well known southern rockers. native angels Home HealtH inc. ���He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee.��� Home Health ��� Personal Care ��� Hospice Care All providers are licensed and bonded Proudly serving our military and veterans One agency can provide all your needs Make us yOur trusted chOice Private Insurance ��� Private Pay Options Tricare ��� VA ��� Champus Accepted Medicaid/Medicare certified Referrals/Admissions 910-323-3628 Toll Free 1-866-483-0694 www.nativeangels.biz Bring an angel into YoUr Home! 44 | April ��� 2013 Friday Local favorite Erik Smallwood kicks off the festival at 7 p.m. With a sound reminiscent of The Zac Brown Band, Keith Urban and John Mayer, Smallwood���s music is catchy and has roots in both country and soul. He grew up in the musical hotbed of Muscle Shoals, Ala., playing drums and guitar in church, and then moved to Fayetteville in 2006. He���s worked with musicians linked to Bonnie Raitt, The Grateful Dead and the Driveby Truckers, among others. Friday night���s headliner, scheduled to take the stage around 9 p.m., is country music star Joe Diffie. Between 1990 and 2004, Diffie charted 35 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart, including mega-hits ���Home���, ���If the Devil Danced (in Empty Pockets)���, ���Third Rock from the Sun���, ���Pickup Man��� and ���Bigger Than the Beatles���. He also co-wrote songs for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw and Jo Dee Messina and has recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones and Marty Stuart. In 2010, he released, ���Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album���, a return to his roots, musically. Fans will likely hear Diffie���s well-known hits, as well as being treated to some of his bluegrass songs, sounds that will surely be right at home bouncing off the buildings downtown. Saturday The party starts on Saturday with Fayetteville favorite Fahrenheit. The band���s five members, Greg Adair on drums and vocals; Les Williams on guitar; Mike Grady on keyboards and vocals; Richard Honeycutt on lead guitar and vocals; and Rick Lewis on bass guitar, play songs from classic rock to country, whatever it takes to get the crowd moving. In the early 1970s a new form of music was being created in Jacksonville, Fla. Blending country, rock n��� roll and the blues, Southern Rock, as it came to be called, took over the Jacksonville music scene, spawning mega-artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd, .38 Special, the Allman Brothers, and two artists who will perform at this year���s Dogwood Festival: Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet. Rock n��� rollers Blackfoot will take the

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