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Music Video Monday: Myla Smith

Music Video Monday’s got those working blues. 

At last month’s Indie Memphis MicroCinema Club meeting, which was dedicated to music videos, New School Media’s Brad Ellis and Sean Faust recalled the meeting that led to Myla Smith‘s music video “Can’t Say No”. They ran several ideas past the artist, none of which met with her approval. Finally, Faust, digging a half-forgotten idea out of his brain, said “What about jookin’ in a Jack Pirtle’s Chicken?” 

Boom. The artist loved the idea, Jack Pirtle’s agreed immediately, and an instant classic Memphis music video was born. Let this escapist pop ditty cheer up your Monday. 

Music Video Monday: Myla Smith

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Moon River Music Fest at the Levitt Shell

Drew Holcomb plays the Levitt Shell this Saturday.

This Saturday the Levitt Shell will host the Moon River Festival, a one-day only event featuring acts like Switchfoot, Drew Holcomb, and NEEDTOBREATHE. The festival has sold out of general admission tickets, but VIP tickets can be purchased for $75.00. Check out the complete schedule below, along with music videos from a few of the acts. Click here to purchase tickets. 

11:30 a.m. VIP Gates Open

12:00 p.m. GENERAL ADMISSION GATES OPEN

12:30 p.m. DREW & ELLIE HOLCOMB

1:00 p.m. MYLA SMITH

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1:40 p.m. CEREUS BRIGHT

2:20 p.m. STEPHEN KELLOGG

3:15 p.m. COLONY HOUSE

4:20 p.m. JUDAH & THE LION

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5:35 p.m. SWITCHFOOT

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7:00 p.m. NEEDTOBREATHE

8:30 p.m. DREW HOLCOMB & THE NEIGHBORS

Moon River Music Fest at the Levitt Shell

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Myla Smith’s Christmas Show @ Otherlands Friday

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  • Myla Smith

Myla Smith has been singing her whole life: She sang the kids’ parts on Barney back in the day. She is a native of Shake Rag, an area north of Millington. Smith was also a workaday banking analyst for consulting powerhouse KPMG. Her work life and her faith inform a solid set of original songs on her latest album Hiding Places. Smith is clearly not cut from the typical Memphis music mold. She is unconflicted, positive, and honest. She is also smart, talented, and motivated to an extent that she’s someone to watch in 2014. And not just because she shot ber video at Jack Pirtle’s. Myla Smith’s annual Christmas show comes is at Otherlands on Friday, December 13th.

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New Sounds: North Mississippi Allstars, Oblivians, Myla Smith

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New music to stream or watch from three Memphis artists:

The North Mississippi Allstars‘ new album, World Boogie is Coming, will be released next Tuesday, September 3rd, and the band is sneak-previewing it this week via the Wall Street Journal. The album was self-produced at the brothers Dickinson’s Zebra Ranch Studio and is being released via the band’s own Songs of the South imprint. You can check it out here.

The Oblivians performed a four-song live set for the music site Daytrotter, running through tracks from their new reunion album Desperation such as “Pinball King” and “War Child.” You can listen here.

Local roots-pop singer Myla Smith will release her album Hiding Places on Tuesday, September 10th and will celebrate it with a release show at Minglewood Hall’s 1884 Lounge on Friday, September 13th. For a sneak preview of the album, recorded in Nashville with producer Brad Jones (Josh Rouse, Over the Rhine, Hayes Carll), check out the video to the album’s first single, “Can’t Say No,” which was produced by the local company New School Media: