Asheville N.C's Valorie Miller will open the evening.
Miller has plenty of accolades in the world of songwriting: top finalist in the 2007 Great 
American Song Contest, a recent invitation to play at New York City's renowned folk club, The Bitter End, and even fan mail from Lucinda Williams herself. But to Valorie, the hallmark of personal success is the intensity with which her fans become attached to her songs.
One fan recently had his favorite of her songs played at his mother's memorial service. Another sustained a life threatening injury while hiking in the wilderness alone, and later wrote her to say that playing her songs over and over in his head gave him the strength to get himself out alive. To her fans, Miller's songs are more than entertainment, they are vitally important touchstones.
This phenomenon inspires her to keep touring, writing and recording. Her current release, “Autumn Eyes”, masterfully delivers her newest material with the trademarks that everyone who loves her music has come to expect: beautiful guitar picking, a genuine and singular voice, and heart-wrenching lyrics. This woman is a songwriter's songwriter, and she inhabits the Americana music scene like a true native.
Praise for Valorie Miller's 2006 release “Folk Star” “the North Carolina based Blue Ridge mountain girl composes sweet tea southern songs with a street busking ragged-n-ruggedness. (her song) 'One Little Moon' delivers a would-be cabaret hit that sounds as good as most people look in candle light” -Glide Magazine Sept 2007
CATTLETRUCK
Bound by a love for the sounds of Townes Van Zandt, Slobberbone, James McMurtry, Lucero, and the Drive 
By Truckers, these boys decided it was time to wake up the cover band sated denizens of the Queen City with some original music that would exhilarate, challenge, and, yes, even offend, the staid mindsets of the financial district.
Armed with a cache of original material that covered such topics as murder, suicide, self-destruction, and various other forms and consequences of bad decisions, they unleashed themselves on an unsuspecting public.
The punk rock scene was the first to embrace Cattletruck's hard-edged take on Outlaw country, and, not soon after, the singer/songwriter crowd caught on to the literate, gallows humor infused tales of things gone wrong. Such luminaries as David Childers and Bill Noonan have become supporters of Cattletruck's Southern Gothic Rock and Roll.
In a short period of time, Cattletruck has built a loyal and very vocal fan base that runs the social gamut from motorcycle clubs to academes, and has created a stir in Charlotte's original music scene with a style that been described as everything from "Goth Country" to "Outlaw Americana."
"Few ever venture into the darkness of the persona that these guys do. their style has been called Outlaw Americana, to Outlaw Country, to Goth Country. Call it what you want, jump in, listen, and be prepared for a wild and sometimes dark ride! Getting the lyrics, at least hearing them is required. Cattletruck is a crisp new $100 dollar bill, belting out original songs in a sea of the cover tune laden, wrinkled-up dollar bill Charlotte music scene...Their songs let the listener know that they have been around the block (no pun intended). They reveal the "Dark Side" of life that a lot of folks have seen and fear discussing.
These songs are written by folks like us. Those of us who dream and sometimes make questionable choices in life. They cover topics from lost love, to dreams of success, to Nebraska family values. Their lyrics are bold, provacative; enticing one to think."
