The 2021 Middle of Somewhere Hemp Fest at Bert Driver’s Burlap Room and Nursery, a celebration spotlighting the Tennessee hemp industry, will feature special musical guest The Weeks, bringing its swaggering, sludgy and slightly Southern indie-rock.
The very productive rock group got its start in 2006 while all four members—twin brothers Cyle and Cain Barnes along with Samuel Williams and Damien Bone—were still in high school.
The boys’ Southern hearts are still pumping blood.
The Weeks’ latest project, Inside the Covers, pays tribute to a variety of artists who have inspired The Weeks. Here the band moves from “Do You Believe in Magic” and “Gimme Three Steps” to The Hold Steady’s “Your Little Hoodrat Friend,” Billie Eilish’s “bad guy” and Saul Williams’ “List of Demands (Reparations).”
These guys enjoy playing energetic, bluesy, raucous rock ’n’ roll, it seems.
We’d like to play one more, they sing on the 2017 release, Easy.
The Middle of Somewhere Hemp Fest will be Saturday, Aug. 21. Bert Driver’s Burlap Room and Nursery is located at 175 Hurricane Ridge Rd., Smithville.
“Since we launched Hemp Fest three years ago, we’ve watched hemp and CBD move from the fringes into the mainstream,” says Bert Driver, a fifth-generation nurseryman, hemp grower and host of Hemp Fest. “This will be a celebration of all things hemp in every sense of the word, with live music, events, activities and plenty of refreshments.”
For more information, visit bertdriver.com.
