IF YOU GOWhat: Nightfall concert series featuring Van Hunt.When: 8 p.m. today; Rick Rushing & The Blues Strangers opens at 7.Where: Miller Plaza, corner of M.L. King Boulevard, Cherry and Market streets.Admission: Free.Phone: 265-0771.Website: www.nightfallchattanooga.com.THE OPENERRick Rushing is a local blues rock/jazz singer and guitarist. His backing band is The Blues Strangers, featuring Adam Russell on bass and Steve Muse on drums. For more information, visit www.reverbnation.com/rickrushingthebluesstrangers.
Singer/songwriter and producer Van Hunt is at his most comfortable in the studio, but in the wake of 2008’s economic collapse, it was on the streets of Los Angeles that he found his latest creative inspiration.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Hunt left home at 18 to move to Atlanta, where he remained until 2007, when he relocated to L.A.
An amateur photographer, Hunt said his latest album, “What Were You Hoping For?”, was inspired by pictures he took during his first year of the city’s swelling homeless population and the abandoned furniture littering its sidewalks.
After a friend pointed out that he was essentially documenting “castoff objects,” Hunt began to write around that theme.