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Americana Carnival: Dave Gleason and Gary Bennett

Presented by Americana Carnival and WSM at Robert's Western World

December 12, 2010

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Americana Carnival is one hour of the best in Americana, Alt-Country, Roots, Honky Tonk, Hillbilly, Outlaw and Twang Music. Tony Doolin, The Professor of Honky Tonk Music, explores the lost highway of the music genre known as Americana, from Hank Sr. to Hank III. The Second Sunday of every month Americana Carnival takes it's show on the road to Robert's Western World on Lower Broadway in Nashville, to showcase live performances.

This month's Americana Carnival features live music from Dave Gleason and Gary Bennett.  From the get-go Dave Gleason has crafted songs and executed them in a way that hums timelessly, country rock that'd fit in fine on a scratchy old turntable at Merle Travis’ house, blasting from an 8-track player in Waylon Jennings' pickup truck or serenading crowds during intermission at a Tom Petty show today. Gleason strikes down to country's hard beating heart and draws out the stuff that's made folks turn to this music for comfort and delight since it wandered out of the Appalachias in the 1930s.

Gary Bennett co-fronted and was a founding member of the critically acclaimed country music band BR549, who recorded five well-received albums (four with Arista and one with Sony), received three Grammy nominations and was hailed by music industry trade magazine Billboard as having single-handedly revived the soul of country music in Nashville. During Gary's tenure, the band sold over 500,000 albums and toured the world, headlining shows as well as opening for such artists as Bob Dylan, George Jones, Merle Haggard, the Black Crowes and Brian Setzer. BR549 was also voted "Best Country Group" in 1996 by Rolling Stone magazine.

UPDATE: Nora Jane Struthers ADDED to the lineup.