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Date/Time
Date(s) - August 11, 2022
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Address
Tennessee Riverboat Company
300 Neyland Dr
Knoxville, TN
37902
United States


SPECIAL EVENING BLUES CRUISE

www.tnriverboat.com

(865) 525-7827

The Smoky Mountain Blues Society will present live music on the River Cruise with this Special Evening Event, Selwyn Birchwood Band on the Tennessee Riverboat on Thursday night, August 11th at 7 pm – 10 pm. Boarding starts at 6, come spend the evening watching the sunset and listening to this fabulous young blues visionary.

Selwyn Birchwood

 Groundbreaking blues visionary Selwyn Birchwood released his highly anticipated third Alligator album, 

Living In A Burning House. The rising guitar and lap steel player calls his original music “electric swamp funkin’ blues,” defined by raw and soulful musicianship played with fire-and-brimstone fervor. His gritty, unvarnished vocals draw his audience deep inside his unforgettable tales of love, passion, pain and pleasure. No other band on the current blues scene is built quite like Birchwood’s. In addition to Selwyn’s electrifying guitar and lap steel playing, the other featured instrument is Regi Oliver’s driving baritone sax. The group is rounded out by bass, drums and, for the first time, keyboards.

According to Birchwood, “I tell my stories in my own way, with my own voice. You won’t ever hear me on stage telling someone else’s story. Muddy Waters, B.B. King and John Lee Hooker all told their own stories. That’s what I’m doing.”

Since the 2014 release of his Alligator Records debut, Don’t Call No Ambulance, Birchwood’s meteoric rise from playing small Florida clubs to headlining international festival stages is nothing short of phenomenal. The album received the Blues Music Award and Living Blues Critics’ Award for Best Debut Album Of 2014, and he won the 2015 Blues Blast Rising Star Award. Rave reviews ran in publications from Rolling Stone to The Wall Street Journal, from The Chicago Tribune to The San Francisco Chronicle. He followed in 2016 with Pick Your Poison. DownBeat said, “There’s a deep-seated power about Birchwood’s singing and six string/lap steel guitar work…and there’s an unmistakable emotion and honesty linking him to forebears like Muddy Waters. Thoughtful, persuasive and rugged.”

“I write and sing what I know,” says Birchwood, whose musical innovations are as expansive as his influences are deep. With Living In A Burning House, Selwyn Birchwood is looking forward to winning over thousands of new fans. “They say everything is better when it’s made with love,” says Birchwood. “That’s how we play our music and that’s how we made the new album. I want my audience to say, ‘I know exactly what that feels like,’ when a song hits them. Because that’s when it stops just being music and starts being medicine. After all, we are all stricken with the condition of being human.”

Check out one of Selwyn Birchwood Videos here:


Tickets are available through the Tennessee Riverboat Company’s website, (
tnriverboat.com) and by calling (865) 525-7827.  Tickets are just $25 for members in advance and $30 for non-members. SMBS Members should call to claim their discount (865) 525-7827.

Boarding begins at 6 pm.

Each voyage will also have full bar and limited food menu available onboard to buy.

For press inquiries, please contact Alisa B. Cherry, alisabcherry@gmail.com