Ten years ago in a small bar with corrugated aluminum sheets for siding called The Alley, the Sangamon Valley Roots Revival was born. Call it what you will...honky-tonk, rockabilly, hillbilly, alt.country, roots rock or just good American music, the SVRR has made Springfield a regular stop for traveling troubadors. Inspired by the likes of BR549, Wayne Hancock and the legendary Big Sandy, we wanted to do our part to pass along and preserve the roots of American music. The SVRR, built on the punk rock spirit of DIY (Do It Yourself), owes its success and longevity to the thousands of roots music fans of the Sangamon Valley.
So if the good lord's willing and the creeks don't rise, join us at the Hoogland Center for the Arts on September 24. You'll be dazzled by Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, Two Tons of Steel, Caffeine Patrol, plenty of friends and fellow music lovers dancing to the bop. Come one, come all, sinners and the saved alike. It's music man, it's the beat, the beat, the beat. It get's in your soul and you have no choice but to get real gone!
Artists that have graced a SVRR stage:
Johnny Dilks
Ray Condo and his Riccochets
Ryan Adams
Deke Dickerson and his Ecco-fonics
The Lucky Stars
Dave Stuckey and his Rhythm Gang
The Ranch Girls
Junior Brown
Southern Culture on the Skids
Big Al Downing
Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys
The Bellfuries
Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
Wanda Jackson
Link Wray
Charlie Louvin
Marti Brom
The Four Charms
BR549
Mandy Barnett
Del McCoury Band
Robbie Fulks
Kim Richey
The Woggles
The Cynics
The Black Diamond Heavies
Nick Curran and the Nitelifes
Cigar Store Indians
Infamous Stringdusters
The Romantics
Sarah Borges
The Shazam
The Boss Martians
Los Straitjackets
The Forty-fives
Dale Watson
Charlie Robison
Bare Jr.
Rosie Flores
Hot Club of Cowtown
Crazy Joe and his Mad River Outlaws
Carl "Sonny" Leyland
The Honeybees
The Sprague Brothers
Chris Scruggs
Dallas Wayne
Wayne Hancock
Justin Townes Earle
The Bottle Rockets
The Deadstring Brothers
Jason Ringenberg
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Little Rachel
Sonny Landreth
1 comment:
I remember going to my first SVRR show when was about 3 shows in when Deke Dickerson came through Springfield for the first time. I remember that show as if it was yesterday. I remember thinking that I was finally met my own kind. I've been to many more SVRR shows and I must say after moving away almost 9 years ago, I do still miss it. Great job, Sean & Jamie! Keep rockin'!
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