Bill Gentry Headlines the Jug Tavern Festival & BBQ Cook-Off on Sat., Sept. 13

The Jug Tavern Festival & BBQ Cook-Off returns to Winder, Ga., and Bill Gentry returns to perform at the event, as a headliner, on Sat., Sept. 13, at 9:15 p.m. Daniel Lee and Ashley Rivera also play that day. Admission to the cook-off and entertainment is free to the public.

Bill Gentry is a lot of things that don’t seem, at first glance, to fit together. A businessman. A club owner. A preacher’s kid. A former politician. And a country artist who will not be denied. http://www.billgentrynation.com/

If those descriptions sound like an odd assortment of current and past lives – well, they are. But they’re also accurate fragments of Gentry, a complicated, driven soul whose personal contrasts are nicely summed up in Baptized In Temptation. The 10-track debut album captures both the rowdy party boy and the thoughtful mate, the country stylist and the blues-rocker.

Produced by Grammy-winner Chad Carlson (Taylor Swift, Trisha Yearwood, Chris Isaak, Sugarland, Cold Mountain soundtrack, Walk the Line soundtrack, etc), the project represents the first studio music that successfully captures the sonic thump of Gentry’s pulsing, high-energy country shows. Those concerts have already seen him play to more than 1 million ticket holders and become something of a Georgia mini-legend, a romp-‘em, stomp-‘em, take-no-prisoners performer who got that way through relentless hard work and study of his concert craft.

In addition to Bill Gentry’s performance and the BBQ cook-off, the festival features a carnival, the Winder Fire Department 5K, Dixie Cruisers Car Show and live entertainment performances throughout the weekend by the Swingin’ Medallions, Bill Gentry, The Daniel Lee Band, Joe Hall Band, Samantha Stroh and others! http://www.jugtavernfestival.com/