Tennessee Concerts' own Pat Adams

Pat Adams - photo courtesy of Gary Allen

Since 1970, Pat Adams, the editor and founder of the Tennessee Concerts website, has been documenting the concerts and musical events of Middle Tennessee. His website is chock full of photos, exclusive videos, artist and tour information and is even your source for concert tickets. Every time you visit the site, there is something new. Recently added, were links for those who are looking to buy one of the top 25 downloaded songs from iTunes.

Pat's great website, is a treasure-trove of memorabilia dating back almost fifty years. He has been around Nashville a long time and his website features the Nashville appearances of music greats such as Elvis, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Southern all-stars such as Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker and many, many more.

Success has not spoiled Pat Adams, who is still a laid back, soft-spoken country gentleman. When Pat is filming at the Play It Again Jam (which Tennessee Concerts has been sponsoring since it's beginnings), he is nearly invisible. That is a great trick for any videographer who can pull it off, and he succeeds in doing it as well as anyone I've ever seen. Many of his videos are up on YouTube, and you can easily tell that the artists are not distracted by the camera.

Lately, Pat and Tennessee Concerts have been featuring the Gary Allen Sonic Bids Song Of The Month winners. Gary's song evaluation and competition has been running since 2007, and winners, runners-up and honorable mentions are posted on the site. (Gary is a life-long Nashville resident, who has played with such musical greats as Charlie Daniels, JJ Cale and Opry star Stonewall Jackson) The competition is not without rewards, and winners not only receive prizes, but their songs are passed on to other music industry people. The song evaluation is really only one of a number of collaborations between Pat Adams and Gary Allen.

With an online store (offering everything from hats and caps to little Tennessee Concerts shirts for your dog), photos, articles, memorabilia dating back to the 1960's, videos, a good-sized links page and a large database containing information on the musical stars of today and yesterday, Tennessee Concerts appears to be a kind of 'one-stop shopping' site for music lovers in Nashville and everywhere else.