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OCTOBER 17-23, 2021 WHAT'S UP! 7 FYI AMP Wrapup The Walmart AMP's season begins to wind down as the nights turn cool. A few more shows welcome music lovers to the Rogers venue before the end of the season, and a few artists are already dotting the 2022 season, with tickets avail- able now. Walmart AMP 2021 Schedule Oct. 19 — NEED- TOBREATHE, "Into The Mystery Tour" Oct. 21 — Jonas Brothers, "Remember This Tour" Oct. 22 — Dierks Bentley, "Beers on Me Tour" Oct. 23 — Gary Clark, Jr. Oct. 26 — Slipknot, "Knotfest Roadshow 2021" for KING + COUNTRY "What Are We Waiting For? Tour" — May 21, 2022 Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band "Life on the Flip Side Tour" — June 9, 2022 Steely Dan — Rescheduled for June 10, 2022 Backstreet Boys "DNA World Tour" — Rescheduled for June 17, 2022 Matchbox Twenty — Rescheduled for June 24, 2022 INFO — 443-5600, waltonartscenter.org/AMP (Pictured: Dierks Bentley/Courtesy Photo) FEATURE them. Their songwriting is fantastic." A series conceived to highlight the art of the songwriting craft in "an atmosphere reminiscent of neighborhood listening rooms and nightclubs," West Street Live's intimate setting and celebration of storytellers is right up Doug and Telisha's alley. On songwriting: T: We love talking about songwriting; we're actually doing a really fun thing with our Patreon (a membership platform for content creators) folks later this month. We have shared with our Patreon subscribers [this exercise] of object writing for songwriting. We're inviting them all to participate, live, in an object write with us, and then we're all going to write a song together. We love involving our fans and friends in things like that. It's really fun. D: We write old-time songs. No matter how we play them and no matter what they sound like, we write old-time songs. And that can be about modern things, and that can be played with electric instruments, drums and loud, but when you break down the structure of the things that we write, we write old-time songs, just like that existed before we were born and before our grandparents were born. That's just part of who we are and part of what we do. On calling Rainbow Terrace, in Madison, Tenn., home: D: It's a part of town where the songwriters who are writing because they want to write good songs, not because they want to write hits, live. So has that had an impact on our writing? I definitely think so. I hope so. I mean, we've met some of our heroes; we've gotten to write songs with people that we've loved their work for years. … talked about what makes a good song with those people, and traded songs and traded ideas. I love being a part of that community. I love other people that think about songs the way we do. T: I do feel like that's a big part of East Nashville and moving into Madison: singer/songwriters are kind of getting pushed out of East Nashville into Madison right now, but it's just a beautiful time and space that is full of creativity — all kinds of creativity. We have some amazing visual artists, we have murals everywhere and a killer number of instrumentalists that are just top, top notch. The best of the best. And creativity just moves, it's part of the air and water here. On those deep Southwest Virginia roots: D: The Ozarks and Appalachians, there's a lot of similarities. Definitely in the way we're both characterized in national media, and so forth. And then the reality is also different. I didn't necessarily want to play that kind of music, but it's just what you did. I learned it from my grandfather and from those [other music heroes of mine], but I wanted to play other things. I wanted to play rock 'n' roll and — T: — you still want to play rock 'n' roll! D: And we do! When we come to the show, we're bringing drums and electric guitars, and we're going to rock out a little bit. But still at the root of it, that song structure and subject matter, it is passed on. And it's not just passed on through the playing, while you're sitting around in the circle playing. Although, that's a lot of it. It's passed on around the table, and when you're cooking with your grandparents and learning those traditions as well. All of that, to me, bakes in to who you are, and I'm really grateful for it. T: That's such an interesting way to describe it — that attention to detail that comes through in the cooking and the observation in the songwriting, and the cooking and the sharing and all of that. D: I'm proud of who my grandparents were; I'm proud of who we are. FYI West Street Live Lineup Wild Ponies open the West Street Live series Oct. 21. The full lineup for the 2021-22 season is below: Ray Bonneville Dec. 9 Canadian-born, U.S.-raised folk artist Ray Bonne- ville came up from Louisiana in 2011 to meet some fellow artists, and ended up performing in and winning the Ozark Blues Challenge at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, earning him a spot at the 2012 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tenn. He won the solo/duo competi- tion representing the Ozarks, and now he's back in Fayetteville Dec. 9. American Patchwork Quartet Feb. 19, 2022 "They're on a mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American roots music," Ross begins of American Patchwork Quartet. "It's fantastic music because what they do is they take traditional songs like 'Shenandoah,' and [vocalist] Falu Shah, as she's singing, she will incorporate some of those Indian sounds and vocalizations into traditional music. … And it is haunting and gorgeous, and reminds you that we are a country of immigrants. It's just fantastic and fun, and their musicianship is off the charts." Darrell Scott March 4, 2022 Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Darrell Scott has written songs recorded by more than 70 artists. He is an ASCAP and Nashville Songwriters Association Song- writer of the Year-winner, among other songwriting competitions. "So I cannot wait to hear him," Ross says, "because he's got so many songs that we will recognize that other people put to music and recorded." Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem May 5, 2022 The only group on this year's lineup returning to the WAC is Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem (pictured). From bluegrass barnstormers to sultry swing, old-time gospel to bluesy folk-rock, this group consistently turns in lush arrangements with stylish, unex- pected choices. The foursome has been part of the Artosphere Arts+Nature Festival in the past and returns to the festival's crown jewel event, Trail Mix, ahead of their WSL performance. COST — Packages are for the entire series are still available at $155-$265; tickets for individual shows are $33-$53.