Preview This Week's City of Greenville Sound Check Virtual Concert Series - iOnGreenville: Your Guide to Greenville South Carolina

Music from near and not so far – this week’s Sound Check: A Virtual Concert series features The Abbey Elmore Band on Thursday and Mac Leaphart on Friday. Tune-in to these sounds at 5:30 PM EST, right here on the Greenville Events facebook page.

Abbey Elmore Band

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Mac Leaphart

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Splintered from the foundations of The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, and John Prine, Mac Leaphart is an artist who puts the song first. Leaphart’s live band, My Ragged Company, takes an austere and bare bones approach to performing; guitar, bass, and drums, with Leaphart handling all the lead guitar work.

Leaphart’s live sound was developed over years of playing in bars around the Southeast; the kind of honky tonks and dives where if the crowd gets bored, bands don’t get asked back. Leaphart has sweated through his share of marathon sets, often performing over three hours without a break. Along the way, Leaphart has shared the stage with some of his biggest influences, as well as some contemporary troubadours, including Billy Joe Shaver, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Hayes Carll and Ryan Bingham.

Leaphart released his first solo record, “Line, Rope, Etc,” in 2008. It was named one of the best albums of the year by the Charleston City Paper. In November of 2011, Leaphart was sidelined from performing for 6 months, after neurosurgery to remove a brain tumor. He began playing again in the summer of 2012, and in November of that year, he moved to Nashville, where he hosts a songwriters night, “Southpaw Supper Club.” Leaphart released his sophomore album, “Low in the Saddle, Long in the Tooth,” in February 2015.