LOCAL NEWS — Clark Crew BBQ won top honors last night at the 31st annual Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue. It’s their fifth time to compete and first Grand Champion win. They traveled all the way from Yukon, Oklahoma to earn $25,000, braggin’ right for the year, and a guaranteed invitation to defend their...
By Tabitha Evans Moore | Editor & Publisher It’s early … before 8 a.m. as I walk through soggy Wiseman Park on the day of the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue. It’s not my first journalistic rodeo in Lynchburg. I know it’s good to get out here early to chat with teams. It’s casual...
It’s no secret that tiny Lynchburg will swell by around 40,000 visitors and nearly 150 barbecue teams this Saturday, but a couple of these teams don’t have too far to travel. Both Black Label Smokers and the Swine Time Boys from Lynchburg and Barking Pig BBQ from nearby Shebyville will most compete in the Shade...