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Mike Gibson, Author at The Knoxville Mercury
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Liberal Andre Block and conservative Jonathan Williams are biking a 3,200-mile Unity Ride across America

In Cover Stories, Outdoors by Mike GibsonJune 21, 2017leave a COMMENT

It stands as probably the most awkward moment to date on Andre Block’s cross-country Unity Ride bicycle trek. He and fellow cyclist Jonathan Williams had stopped at an old ranch …

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Texas Power Trio Mothership Prepares for a Rock ‘n’ Roll Revolution

In Music Stories by Mike GibsonApril 26, 2017leave a COMMENT

Texas-based power trio Mothership inhabits a world where rock ’n’ roll is still a larger-than-life proposition—a world of black-velvet sci-fi posters and psychedelics, where willowy rock stars wander arena stages …

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Local Developer Tim Hill Promises Big Changes in the Old City

In News, Program Notes by Mike GibsonMarch 29, 2017leave a COMMENT

Change is afoot in the Old City. Local developer Tim Hill recently confirmed that he has purchased the NV Nightclub building at 125 E. Jackson Ave. from longtime downtown nightclub …

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Local Music Review: Mic Harrison and the High Score, ‘Vanishing South’

In Music Reviews, Music Stories by Mike GibsonMarch 8, 2017leave a COMMENT

Knoxville’s Mic Harrison and the High Score are best known for plying a muscular brand of Americana—its primary roots in honky-tonk and trad county, crossbred in later generations with Alex …

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The Hard-Rockin’ Supersuckers Just Won’t Quit, Even After 28 Years

In Music Stories by Mike GibsonNovember 9, 2016leave a COMMENT

If Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti was indeed born with a tail—as suggested by the title of one of the band’s better-known songs—then he keeps said appendage carefully tucked between his …

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