Macon Road Show Comes To North Little Rock

The Oxford American is excited to present a special concert at Four Quarter Bar on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 7:00 pm featuring music by Greg Spradlin & the Delta Soul Singers and Macon Music Revue.

Greg Spradlin has been a professional musician since before he could legally drive. He used a fake driver’s license to play in bars and learn from his mentors, and he traveled to the Delta to search for the homes and graves of his music idols. From a young age, he played honky-tonks with legendary Sun Records rockabilly artists and played blues clubs and juke joints with the likes of Frank Frost and Sam Carr. Greg’s love of the Delta and its music has led to his work on projects, such as relocating Levon Helm’s boyhood home into downtown Marvell, AR, as well as fundraising and commissioning the bust of Helm that now resides in the house and museum. In addition, Greg helped introduce legislation to designate memorial highways in the Delta named for local residents, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Louis Jordan, Levon Helm, Johnny Cash, and the Americana Music Highway.

Joining Greg will be the Delta Soul Singers—a collection of some of Central Arkansas’s finest voices, featuring Crystal Hayes, Michael Dotson, and Zetoria Curry.

Paying tribute to its city's musical inheritance, Macon Music Revue proudly calls itself a "preservation band." The five-piece group takes the stage at historic Grant's Lounge every Wednesday night to mine the catalogs of hometown heroes Little Richard, Otis Redding, and The Allman Brothers Band, while also digging deep into the songs of Capricorn Records. The Revue also puts its spin on cuts by James Brown, whose career was kick-started in Macon, by Atlanta Rhythm Section, whose lead singer—the late Ronnie Hammond—was a native Maconite, and by R.E.M.

The undeniable power of Macon's soul-and-Southern Rock bloodline radiates through the gospel-soaked vocals of Charles Davis, the attention-holding solos and slide work of guitarist Dustin McCook, and the organ and piano of Ethan Hamlin, the 24-year-old following in the footsteps of his Macon keyboard predecessors, Gregg Allman and Chuck Leavell. The Revue is anchored by drummer Caleb Melvin and bassist Evan Bentzel, who embrace the laid back lineage of Macon's groove and keep it firmly fastened in the pocket.

Thank you to Visit Macon, Argenta Arts District, and North Little Rock Tourism for making this event possible.

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