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The Red Horse Inn, 45 Winstons Chase Ct, Landrum, SC 29356 US
Wine on the Terrace is a relaxed, adults-only wine experience held at The Red Horse Inn, featuring Hurt & Skip live outdoors with sweeping views of the Blue Ridge foothills. Guests are invited to slow down, sip, and take in the scenery from the terrace, creating an easygoing evening that blends fine wine, fresh air, and mountain atmosphere.
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The Town Pump Tavern is located in the heart of the historic district of downtown Black Mountain, North Carolina is a great place to grab a drink and listen to live music. The Town Pump Tavern has been featured in films including scenes from the 2015 film “The World Made Straight,” and most recently, the award-winning “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
FR8yard is South Carolina's first totally open-air biergarten & restaurant. Boasting 16 taps, numerous craft & domestic options, wine, and craft cocktails, FR8yard is an all-occasion space for families to come together for a killer time. Boasting an array of houseground sausages (and more), a 20 ft jumbotron, and the best stage around for live music.
Hurt & Skip has been breaking the mold over and over again, blowing minds with a sound that blends a respect for the blues innovators of the past with modern energy and the art of compelling and live performances that tug on the heart and feel like an emotional rollercoaster. This blues trio is nothing short of ground breaking with their introduction of a new genre they call “Tribal Blues”. Since the band's inception in 2019, Hurt & Skip has been presenting their art to crowds all over the southeastern United States. Guitarist Shane Pruitt brings a range of textures to the band's sound by switching effortlessly from acoustic guitar to traditional open tuning styles on dobro pulling brass and glass slides over the nickel bound strings to create a haunting yet sweet emotional push and pull that only a veteran of the blues like himself can tame. Percussionist Jason “Slice” Phillips is a groove hurricane and keeps the kick drum driving forcing any hips to sway and swing when infected with his ability to do what sounds like fifteen things at once. Singer Joe Power brings an array of vocal styles that soar over the band taking big risks and always landing on his feet whether it's a tender ballad or a scorching buzz saw. Hurt & Skip has graced the airwaves with many of their songs on regular rotation at WNCW 88.7 as well as on air performances on “Live From Studio B”. Hurt & Skip has self recorded, produced and released 3 albums as well as a live album. Hurt & Skip has collaborated, performed and recorded with legends of the industry including Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle of which their original song “Old Man” was tracked live and released on iTunes and video is available on YouTube. Hurt & Skip has performed at venues ranging from the Fall For Greenville Music and Arts Festival to the legendary Grant's Lounge in Macon GA as well as GABBA Fest hosted by members of the Georgia Alman Brothers Band Association.
Listen to the first track from Hurt & Skip's second album.
Listen to "Send Me To Hell" from Hurt & Skip's third album "The People's Album"
Enjoy Hurt & Skip's most requested ballad to date.
The sound of Hurt & Skip is primal, primitive and propulsive. It’s deep hill country blues with a twist. Shane Pruitt’s red-hot Dobro and slide guitar come straight from the blues tradition, but it’s mixed with percussionist Jason Phillips’ polyrhythms and singer Joe Power’s Southern rock twang. The band calls it “outlaw tribal blues,” and it’s difficult to think of a better way to classify it.
On their new release, “The People’s Album,” the trio sounds surprisingly full; Pruitt is a riff-happy powerhouse, Phillips can seemingly fill any space with percussive rhythms and Power’s vocals are alternately full of bluster and buried deep in heartbroken blues.
“The minute he started hitting the one (beat) with his foot and adding his rolls with percussion stuff on top, we almost had a heart attack,” Power says with a laugh.
“The People’s Album” is actually the band’s third release in the last three years, and they’ve perfected their no-frills sound since first forming in 2019. As the name suggests, Hurt & Skip were originally a duo of Power and Pruitt, who bonded over their love of classic bluesmen like Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James.
Long before forming The Consumers, a Spartanburg-based band that began churning out edgy pop-rock in the mid-2000s, Joe Power was a serious student of early 20th century blues.
“I must have been 11 years old when I heard Skip James’ ‘Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues,’ and it scared me to death,” Power said. “I had never heard anything like it. That was the song that made me pick up my dad’s guitar — his acoustic — and actually start to learn how to play it.”
The hauntingly melodic tune was also the first song Power and Spartanburg guitar whiz Shane Pruitt played together when, a few months ago, they started collaborating as musical partners.
Billed as Hurt & Skip, a reference to seminal bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt and the aforementioned James, the duo was set to make its public debut in late March at Delaney’s Irish Pub in Spartanburg. Of course, social distancing measures related to the coronavirus pandemic canceled those plans.
Now, having since added Greenville-based percussion Jason “Slice” Phillips to the fold, Hurt & Skip will instead be officially launched to the public via a livestream concert to be broadcast at 7 p.m. Friday, April 17...
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Watch the full Fall For Greenville Performance
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