My First Time

I am creating this blog to compliment my new column in Sideline's, Middle Tennessee State University's student body newspaper, called Band of the Week. So far I have interviewed two local bands, Ribbonpigeon and THB. They were both fun interviews and I learned alot, both professionally and personally, about the guys and their music. Ribbonpigeon is a great band with an original sound. They are full of good looking, educated men, all from MTSU -ladies-eat your heart out. They were last week's Band of the Week. THB, who I just wrote the article about yesterday-and hasn't even hit the press yet- was very interesting. Brothers Lenny and Mike (or as older brother Lenny affectionately calls him, Mikey) grew up with close friend Glen on The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. For those of you who didn't know-like myself- The Farm is a community of hippies from the 70's that decided to live together and are still there today. The PC term for these places is 'intentional communities.' The name "The Homegrown Band" is so appropriate and was actually given to the band by friends and family in their community. This band has traveled all over the American south and to Amsterdam to play with big names like Redman. Both these bands deserve a tremendous thanks for taking time out of their busy lives to talk to me.