Brownsville Press • Wednesday, June 21, 2017 B9 Community Rain sends show inside, still a success no exception. The con- By Brooke McCain cert was relocated to the Staff writer Ann L. Marks Perform- Event planners were ing Arts Center where one step ahead of Moth- the sounds of country er Nature last Thurs- gospel flled the theatre day as the threat of rain as popular, family faith- loomed over College based band The Barnetts Hill. For weeks, Browns- took the stage. ville Haywood County This Thursday’s Live Arts Council’s free sum- on the Lawn perfor- mer concert series, Live mance features Soulful on the Lawn, has gone Sounds with Vonda Peet. without a hitch, and Rain or shine, the show Thursday, June 15, was starts at 7 p.m. PHOTO BY CHRIS MCCAIN Rotary Club swears in new president Backyard Bar-b-que. Brothers University in By Brooke McCain ton, president nomi- Also at the meeting, Memphis this fall and Staff writer nee Brannon Williams and new board mem- recent Haywood High majoring in computer The Brownsville ber Houston Cozart. School graduate Pablo science. Rotary Club 3797 in- Existing offcers are Marin was presented Rotary Club is an stalled its new off- secretary Kather- a $4,000 check as this international organi- cers Tuesday, June 20. ine Horn, treasurer year’s Brownsville zation that “brings The new president is George Tyree, ser- Rotary Club Scholar- together leaders to Anne Emery, pictured geant-in-arms Sonny ship recipient. “I real- exchange ideas and receiving the gavel Howse and directors ly want to thank you take action to help em- from outgoing pres- John Gorman III, Mi- guys. This check will power youth, enhance ident Andrea Bond chael Banks and Tom- help pay for my frst health, promote peace Johnson. Other new my Russell Sr. The year fully,” Marin said and eradicate polio.” designations are pres- Installation was held to the club. Marin will PHOTO BY CHRIS MCCAIN ident-elect Steve Hil- in the Delta Room at be attending Christian Red Hot celebrates kids, great music timeless legacy of the of Sam Phillips, the in- Valerie June (singing By Tommie Rowell tiny independent label augural Rock and Roll Carl Perkins’ “Sure to Managing editor that changed the face of Hall of Fame inductee Fall”), Arkansas-bred This part of the coun- American music.” who founded his Sun la- s i n g e r - s o n g w r i t e r try is no stranger to mu- Former Brownsvillian bel in 1952. Shawn Camp (“Lonely sic. Really great music, and singer-songwrit- Red Hot was record- Weekends”), for- mer in fact. And we’re cer- er Bryan Hayes, son of ed at the two legendary Squirrel Nut Zippers tainly not unaccustomed John and Linda Hayes, Memphis recording stu- front man Jimbo Mathus to exceptional children’s is the executive direc- dios operated by Phil- (Jerry Lee Lewis’ “High health care. So what do tor of AMS, a Memphis lips: the humble Sun School Confdential”) the two have in com- nonproft, founded to Studio and the larger, and Bluff City bluesman mon? One local non- foster and support the futuristic Sam Phillips Alvin Youngblood Hart proft group paired the creation, performance Recording Service. (Cash’s “Folsom Prison two, producing an epic and appreciation of A host of perform- Blues”). The album’s compilation of Ameri- Americana music. Ad- ers interpret a brace of wild card is 83-year-old cana music covers while ditionally, he is featured classic Sun recordings: blues singer and harp beneftting St. Jude Chil- on the album singing Keith, LaVere, and Lu- player Bobby Rush. dren’s Research Hospi- a soulful rendition of ther Dickinson take Critics have praised tal, the nation’s top pe- Johnny Cash’s “Ways of lead vocals on numbers the album, saying “You diatric care centers. a Woman in Love.” originally performed by can feel the respect According to a state- Red Hot was co-pro- Phillips’ artists – respec- from every artist here, more Magazine),” and, spirited and wonder- ment by album produc- duced by Luther Dick- tively, Warren Smith’s honoring Phillips’ leg- “Throughout, the focus fully anachronistic per- ers, Americana Music inson of the North Mis- “Red Cadillac and a acy, a man whose goal seems to be less on up- formances (The Morton Society (AMS), “Red sissippi All Stars and Black Moustache,” the was to fnd untried and dating these songs than Report).” Hot is a Memphis cele- Tamara Saviano, the Miller Sisters’ “Ten Cats unproven talent, both on conjuring up the Red Hot CDs and LPs bration of Sun Records, Nashville-based writ- Down,” and Howlin’ black and white. They original Sun magic— can be found locally at a jubilant homegrown er-producer and author, Wolf’s “Moanin’ at Mid- infuse new life into an effort that succeeds the West Tennessee Del- commemoration of the and celebrates the work night.” Memphis’ own these classic songs (El- completely, thanks to ta Heritage Center..