The Handlebar: A Listening Room

17/10/2024

Will Hoge, one of our favorite, most popular performers at The Handlebar: A Listening Room, plays the incredibly cool venue, The 720 Room, upstairs from Smoking Butt Heads BBQ. (The food is amazing, it's on Southern Living's list!)
The show is tomorrow night! Get tickets now.

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02/09/2024

Andy, I haven't posted because I don't know what to say. I can see you giving me side-eye as you walk past. I never know whether you are keeping a secret, reading my mind -- or if you think I'm keeping a secret or reading your mind. Or was it a game? Probably just a way to keep me guessing.

This is what you wrote for Kevin:

"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

Kevin, Don, Herb, Gene, Rob, you ... Andy ... (too many others from our Handlebar family) ... I know you're laughing in the stars. Swapping stories about bands, listening to music, remembering the good times - only the good times - with healthy bodies, without pain, without regret.

We're remembering only the good times, too. (Kathy)

23/06/2024

On the eve of the 30th anniversary of The Handlebar: A Listening Room's opening, we finally discovered the Wayback Machine (h/t Katherine Jeter!).

Warning: You will spend hours, days, weeks going down this music-history rabbit hole, perusing hundreds, if not a 1,000-plus shows -- at least as far back as 2000, when we moved to Stone Ave. (The site even has links to our MySpace page!)
Plus! We're in the planning stages of a very special Handlebar event. Stay tuned.

31/05/2024

Here's a story about Macon, Georgia -- a mind-blowing laboratory for how to make a music city (and one that definitely is NOT Nashville). One of the funnest magazine assignments, I ever got.

Take in the sights and sounds of Macon, Georgia with this guide that dives into the town's musical history.

18/04/2024

Thanks for the music, Dickey Betts.
That was one helluva show he played at The Handlebar: A Listening Room. What a thrill to be able to get a larger-than-life legend like him.
Now the "Ramblin' Man" has rambled on to his next gig. Rip it as you RIP.

Dickey Betts, the singer, songwriter and guitarist who played a crucial role in the Allman Brothers Band, has died at age 80.

07/04/2024

Thrilled for our National champions, South Carolina Women's Basketball!
Who teaches at University of South Carolina - University of South Carolina Upstate? That's right. I do!
So proud of our heroes!

25/03/2024

So honored to be invited to the Trueline GVL dinner with special guest Dick Vermeil, nicest guy to ever win a Super Bowl.
Thank you, Michael Grozier, for including me in the entire Trueline experience and The Handlebar: A Listening Room in the project!
And thanks to TALK Greenville for the photo in the lower right corner of the page here. Especially stunning.

Y'all, this whole Trueline venue venture is epic.
(If you want to invest in and/or become part of Trueline, DM me!)