Mic Harrison and the High Score

Local singer/songwriter/beer-drinking champion Mic Harrison kicks of the promotional push for his new album, Great Commotion, with a busy week of free (!) and early-hour (!!!) performances, solo and with his backing band, the High Score. The long haul starts with a Blue Plate Special set on Thursday at the WDVX studio in the Knoxville Visitors Center on the corner of Gay Street and Summit Hill, along with the Ohio rockabilly/string-band quartet the Lewis Brothers. Mic’s on the road with the band after that but he gets a couple of days off afterward, and he’ll need it; Wednesday, July 21, might be about as busy a day as any local musician could schedule, with Harrison and the High Score starting the day in the Knox ivi studio on Market Square for the 11 O’Clock Rock show at 11 a.m.—you can drop by the studio or watch online—and ending with an in-store set at the Disc Exchange on Chapman Highway. That show’s part of the Homegrown series of in-store performances that are broadcast on WFIV 105.3 FM. In between, they’ll be guests on Live at Five at Four, giving a big TV audience a taste of their boot-stompin’ honky-tonk rock. The official CD release show follows on Friday, July 23, at Patrick Sullivan’s ($8 in advance, $10 at the door). That’s five chances to see the band in eight days, three of them free and four of them available in your own living room, so you really don’t have any excuses. (Matthew Everett)

Photo by Annie Clark Rankin