This funk-driven band out of Asheville has been making music since 2008, but a new EP they're officially unveiling on Friday night is introducing them to a wider audience. Bassist Tyler Mack, guitarists Mikey Domanico and Josh Bertram, keyboardist Matt Powers, drummer Kent Spillman, and percussionist Bizkit bring us the funk for your Friday afternoon.

Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore are partners in life and in music, and in addition to their own work (including a great new one Transient Lullaby), they back up Steve Earle as "The Dukes". They (including Earle) are currently on tour, with a show at The Orange Peel in Asheville on Tuesday night.

The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games are taking place this weekend! Slainte! The games are popular throughout the world. The four day event has been held at Grandfather Mountain's MacRae Meadow for more than half a century. Each July, thousands of people from all over the world attend the games, located in Linville, North Carolina, to celebrate Scottish heritage with traditional music, games, food and friendship.

From June of 2009, we'll hear the Mississippi-meets-the-slightly twisted Nashville sound of Webb Wilder and the Beatnecks in our studio showcasing tunes from the album “More Like Me." And, from this past June, a band that has broken out of the regional pack in a big way and is just about to embark on their first European tour: Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters, from Asheville, who were here on the day that their new self-titled disc was officially released.

We're all about the rhythm this week on Studio B Rewind. We'll get down with the afro-psycho-beat blend of Polyrhythmics, who were in Studio B last month just before a show in Charlotte. Also, roots reggae band Bambu Station, from the Virgin Islands, who were here in 2008, plus a 2009 Studio B session featuring the multi-cultural music of multi-instrumentalists Free Planet Radio, from Asheville. Join Host Kim Clark with another look back on incredible Studio B Sessions.  

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“The manic revelation is the state where artists create,” says Pokey. “I got to the point in writing these songs where I felt like a house on fire that just kept burning.” Manic Revelations is the name of his new album, a new direction in many ways, but really a culmination of where he's been headed this last decade of working hard at his craft. Get to know this great artist more when he stops by to speak with Martin Anderson on Monday morning, following his Sunday night show at The Grey Eagle in Asheville.