Corinth native Jimbo Mathus makes a return trip home to Trailhead Yard Friday.
The concert will serve as a benefit for Andy Madden. Admission is free. In case of rain, the concert will move to the Corinth Coliseum.
Madden, a Corinth native, and 1983 CHS graduate, has been undergoing treatment for brain cancer.
“I got a really gnarly diagnosis of a brain tumor,” he said. “I was getting treatment in Memphis initially. The chemo and radiation treatment is being done here at West Cancer. My friends decided they wanted to help. I feel good. I have been fortunate.”
Madden is between treatments for neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer.
He is set to undergo further treatment with a device called Optune that is designed to keep the cancer cells apart.
“Only about two percent of the people who get it will make it to two years,” said Madden. “I feel pretty good and optimistic that the outcome is going to be good.”
Sugar and Smoke food truck out of Booneville will be selling barbecue sandwiches, barbecue nachos, smoked chicken salad sandwiches, barbecue parfait, sweets, specials and sides.
Kenny Little opens the music at 5 p.m. and Blue Day at 6 p.m. Little plays a mix of music influenced by musicians like Chris Stapleton and Turnpike Troubadours.
Blue Day is a bluegrass band that features Corinth native Ernie Welch (banjo). Steve Craig (bass), Tony Branham (guitar) and Rick Crenshaw (mandolin) round out the Collierville, Tenn.-based group.
Mathus will play with local band 7 Mile Creek from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
The Corinth-based bluegrass band consists of members Craig and Welch as well as Chris Bagley (guitar), Victor McInire (fiddle) and Bill Morris (mandolin).
Mathus, a Corinth native and CHS graduate, started his music career in high school with Johnny Vomit and the Dry Heaves. He earned gold and platinum albums during the 1990s swing revival as singer and guitarist for the Squirrel Nut Zippers. The Zippers played during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics as well as Bill Clinton’s inauguration.
Mathus has also played in Knock Down Society and the Tri-State Coalition.
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