02/18/2024
and to be a part of this story...this Music City story! Thank you and all the individuals and sponsors that helped make this project happen! The first 20 years of Lovenoise flew by. Excited about the next 20 years!
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Last week, we introduced you to Lovenoise. Now we’re zooming in on exactly how they pushed through barriers that had long existed in Nashville. We’re also going to travel further back in time, to the heyday of Nashville’s Black music scene, and the role the city played in unraveling it. Then we’ll meet the first generation of R&B players, hip-hop MCs and neo-soul singer-songwriters who found what they’d been looking for at those Lovenoise Sunday nights.
Slide 1-2: The five Lovenoise founders, Antoine Nunn (aka Moe), Eric Holt, LaSalle Chapman, Chip Hockett and Bryce Page, hadn’t gotten together to look at their old photos and flyers in forever... until they convened in WNXP’s Sonic Cathedral last year.
Slide 3: Edward Kindall is a storehouse of stories about the history of community, commerce and the once-thriving music scene on Jefferson Street. He literally wrote the book on it.
Slide 4: Elijah (aka D.D.) and Rick Holt were instrumental in Audiofonix, the band that helped set the tone of freewheeling experimentation and expression in the early days of Lovenoise’s Sunday night hangs at the Bar Car. The long-shuttered venue now serves as office space.
Slide 5: Kyle Whalum is a bassist who’s backed Katy Perry in Vegas, Kelly Clarkson on TV, Miley Cyrus on the Grammys and a slew of other artists on big stages. Twenty years ago, when he was just getting started, he played in the live, improvisational hip-hop band Audiofonix at Lovenoise Sunday nights. (And he and Jewly have run several trail races together, including one in L.A. last year.)
Slide 6: Kenny Smoov starting running the show at Nashville R&B station 92Q in the early days of Lovenoise, and teamed up with them to start the Lovenoise Radio Hour, which regularly put local artists on the air.
Catch up on the first two episodes at wpln.org/makingnoise or wherever you get your podcasts.
