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Jammin' at Hippie Jack's TV Taping at Tennessee State Museum featuring Peter Karp and Sue Foley

Presented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum

March 27, 2009

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Join the Tennessee State Museum Foundation for a festive evening and musical showcase and television taping for the PBS series, Jammin’ at Hippie Jack’s which is filmed and produced by noted Cumberland Plateau photographer Jack Stoddart. The show highlights the real-life journeymen of the music industry who typically play back-up, tour or write for some of today’s top-charting pop/country luminaries. Through live concerts and interviews, Stoddart’s program features these music professionals in the spotlight, where they perform and reminisce about their personal experiences with their iconic mentors.

The March taping features Peter Karp, the undisputed king of rootsy Americana blues, a soulful storyteller somewhere between James Taylor and Bob Dylan. Blues Review Magazine describes Karp as “an underground genius…like Jackson Browne and John Prine, mixed with a healthy dose of guitar-based blues, who embodies music of the heartland.” 

Karp's unique playing style attracted a simple email and letter correspondence with Canadian-born blues sensation Sue Foley. The letters between this female Juno Award (Canada’s Music Award) winner and Karp turned into songs - and the result is music that is both intimate and authentic, played with acoustic instruments telling a story from both the male and female perspective. This straightforward communication has evolved into the He Said – She Said project, which has had an overwhelming response wherever these two have performed together. 

The evening’s festivities are presented in part by Piedmont Natural Gas of Nashville and by a grant from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee to showcase original Americana musicians and songwriters to audiences in our Volunteer State.