Redd & The Paper Flowers

Redd Daugherty inherited Rush's Music, a Knoxville instrument shop, after his friend Jason Cooper was killed by gun violence, and that loss sits at the center of the newest record from Redd & The Paper Flowers, which the band carries to Fogartyville. The Knoxville four-piece, whose members met at local open mics, calls its sound living-room folk: Daugherty on guitar, Katie Adams on upright bass, Colleen d'Alelio on cello and Gavin Gregg on mandolin, with all four singing. Their debut, Appalachian Bell Jar, looked hard at East Tennessee and the wider mountain region. The band runs itself as a do-it-yourself independent outfit, and some listeners have called the result Appalachian jazz.