Its state roots run deep, with Jack Daniel’s former master distiller Jeff Arnett holding the same duties and title as part of the team behind the new site, which is Company’s second location since its founding in 2020. The trail’s newest location is Company Distilling, which had its grand opening in Townsend in early July. Perhaps the most visible sign of the industry’s evolution, other an ongoing, successful push beginning in 2009 to rewrite pre-Prohibition era of state laws that forbade their existence in most of the state (see sidebar) is the Tennessee Whiskey Trail, which was established in 2017 and now numbers more than 30 distillery stops across the state.

These days, instead of being underground operators living in fear of the “Revenuers” breaking up their equipment, Tennessee’s distillers have become a cohesive group of entrepreneurs working to drive economic development and tourism across the state. No matter whats chillin’ in your mason jar, sour mash or sweet tea, come on out for a live show where the Whiskey Bent Valley Boys will be pounding out the swing dancing, foot stompin, hard=driving tunes that are guaranteed to tickle your innards.The foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains have long played host to distilleries, though their grand openings weren’t always accompanied by a news release. Going even more down earth, they are taking their cd packaging “green.” Their upcoming new, full-length cd sleeve is industrial hemp paper and recycled cardboard with environmentally-friendly, vegetable-based inks. Often times the boy bring a delicious yield of their summer crops to gigs in bushel baskets for the taking. Each member’s family performs and enjoys the indigenous music of the appalachian foothills and pastures of Kentucky.Īppearances on a wide range of radio and tiv programs, state fairs and festivals have brought them an active fan base for this region. Band founder Mason Dixon hails from a long line of musicians and will tell you it’s not so much in the whiskey as it is the DNA. The boys take cues from parents and grandparents who have tapped into folk country and bluegrass through festivals, radio and endless collections of vinyl recrodings.

Audiences from children on their parent’s knee to packed saloons past midnight and finding favor with the older generation as well makes for a wide range of appeal. Incorporatin time-honored treasures from such icons as Roscoe Holcomb, The Stanley Brothers, and fiddle legend Tommy Jarrell, or a roster of original compositions including crowd-pleasers “Whiskey Train and “Shady River” the band puts on a timeless, energiezed show Playing everything from ballads, breakdowns, sea shanties, and swamp stomps. From overalls to string ties, straw hats to silk vests, along with a turbo-charged performance, their approach breathes fire into this vintage genre.īlending their instrumental and vocal talents are JR on the barnyard fiddle: the bands founder, Mason Dixon, is behind his unique style of claw hammer and three-finger style banjo, guitar, harmonica, standing tall with his doghouse bass is the bands youngest member, Leroy Jones and on mandolin and once in a blue moon-spoons, Johnny Whippermule. With their divers fashion sense and stage. Hailing from the back woods of Pee-Wee Valley, Kentucky, The Whiskey Bent Valley Boys pay homage to their southern king- songs from the tobacco fields to the rivers, iron skillets to moonshine stills, upbeat and professional, the band posesses the skill to honor history and preserve the instruments, their style and every authentic, nuance of the day. Hailing from the back woods of Pee-Wee Valley, Kentucky, The Whiskey Bent Valley Boys pay homage to their southern king- songs from the tobacco fields to the rivers, iron skillets to moonshine stills, upbeat and professional, the band posesses the skill Read More This old-time band delivers with an intensity that would knock the sock right off of their forefathers feet. Now these boy will take you through the hills of ol’ kentucky, bearing the stores, traditions and liqour that date back a century.

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