Desert Noises is, from left, Patrick Boyer (guitar), Kyle Henderson (vocals/guitar), Brennan Allen (drums) and Tyler Osmond (bass/backing vocals).IF YOU GO• What: Riverfront Nights concert series featuring Desert Noises• When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17; The Power Players Show Band opens at 7 p.m.• Where: Ross’s Landing, 200 Riverfront Parkway• Admission: Free• Phone: 423-756-2211• Website: www.riverfrontnights.com• Artist website: www.desertnoisesmusic.comTHE OPENERThe Power Players Show Band is an ensemble of musical transplants from Motown who cover blues, rock, funk and soul artists including The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Ohio Players and Parliament. For more information, visit www.thepowerplayersshowband.com.ON THE GREENCompanies who will have displays at Riverfront Nights this week include The Decosimo Co. and The North Chickamauga Creek Conservancy. Activities on the green include a bike parade (costumes, lights and bike decorations encouraged) and events associated with Tennessee American Water Co.’s Water Conservation Night.
When the members of Utah-based Desert Noises first began touring, some of them couldn’t even get in the doors of a bar. Closing in on three years later, the situation has changed significantly, says vocalist/guitarist Kyle Henderson.
“When we left home, we’d never been to a bar, really, and now we basically live in them,” Henderson, now 24, says, laughing.
But touring has affected them in more ways than making them more familiar with the layout of America’s watering holes. Hitting the road has been transformative and enlightening, he says.
“One of the things about being on the road is learning to be open to people,” he continues. “[There was] stuff we thought never would be able to happen in Utah, and now we’ve experienced that. That’s changed us a lot, changed the way we write and the way life works.”