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Indie Spotlight reviews of Doug Hoekstra, Steve Almaas, June Star and more Author: By Lee Zimmerman Doug Hoekstranever settles for the ordinary, but his new album The Day Deserved may be his most ambitious project yet.. With songs that veer from the cajoling (“Seaside Town”) to the caressing (“Late Night Ramble,” Grace”) to the carousing (“Keeper of the Word”) and even the quirky (“Wintertime”), it is, by Hoekstra’s own description, a record “intended to be a marker of t...

Actor, writer, producer, director, motivational speaker and voice-over artist Nashville’s theater community lost a big, brilliant voice this year — both literally and figuratively. William Barry Scott — the veteran actor, writer, producer, director, motivational speaker and voice-over artist — died Sept. 10 at the age of 65. The Nashville native was the founder and producing artistic director of the American Negro Playwright Theatre at Tennessee State University, the same insti...