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Doors 5:30 PM / Show 7:00 PM
Tickets $12 Advance / $15 Day of Show
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Drunken Prayer’s newest album, Thy Burdens, is an homage to the intense, sublime music of the church that means so much to the musicians who worked on it. Musically it’s snarling country-soul with horns, shouting and a lot of groove. The songs vary between the evergreen and the obscure. Represented here are tributes across the landscape: Thomas Dorsey, Martha Carson, Snooks Eaglin, Ralph Stanley, The Zion Travelers, Leon Payne, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Hank Williams, Odetta, Dylan, and traditionals that are too old to credit.
The project was spearheaded by Drive-By Truckers’ bassist Bobby Matt Patton who cut his teeth playing in fiery Pentecostal church bands around north Alabama, and Morgan Geer (Drunken Prayer) who learned most of the hymns they recorded from his great grandmother in Mobile, AL.
"If it's been left up to guys like us to spread the good news, something has gone wrong."
This started when Bobby Matt met Morgan at a shared gig in Chapel Hill, NC, where they found themselves instant friends and kindred spirits. After talking for a while the idea for this album was born. The inspiration, other than purely rocking the hell out, was a pull to get to the core values of the old songs. The incontrovertibly true and inconceivably vast principles of kindness, right and wrong, and social justice: Cosmic Gospel.
Fred LeBlanc is the lead singer/drummer for the New Orleans-based rock band Cowboy Mouth and a freelance songwriter, record producer, short story author, and acoustic performer. LeBlanc has been called one of the more instantly recognizable figures in contemporary Louisiana music and has had 35 years experience fronting Cowboy Mouth. This special event will be an up close, personal experience with a unique blend of story telling and energetic acoustic performance not to be missed.
TICKETS $12 ADVANCE / $15 DAY OF SHOW
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Equal parts bayou funk, back-alley soul, front-yard Southern grit and a hell of a good time. This band from Oxford, MS is not to be missed.
Tickets $8advance / $10 day of show.
BLEU COLLAR TOASTIES KITCHEN OPEN 5:30-9:00 PM
DOORS 5:30 PM / SHOW 7:00 PM (21+)
Tickets $12 advance / $15 day of show
BLEU COLLAR TOASTIES KITCHEN OPEN 5:30-9:00 PM
"I'm burning down the interstate," Rob Leines sings halfway through Headcase, an album that finds the road warrior occupying the intersection of blue-collar rock & roll and outlaw country. Pulling triple duty as a songwriter, southern storyteller, and modern-day guitar hero, Leines fills his third album with tales from the fast lane, punctuating each song with amplified riffs and a voice sharpened by a heavy touring schedule. The result is a record for dive bars and dance halls, for highways and honky-tonks, for wheels that spin and horizons that linger just out of reach.
Doors 5:30 PM / Show 7:00 PM
Tickets: $5 advance / $8 day of show
Ages 21+
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Gritty Flyright is a Charleston-based singer/songwriter whose authentic roots-driven country and Americana style is presented with a rotating group of talented musicians — collectively known as “The Music Family.”
$22 Advance / $25 Day of Show
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J. Roddy Walston is a force of nature. If his hits like Heavy Bells is are a war cry, then the deep cuts like Boys Can Never Tell are a tactical cosmic retreat. For some, his music is a form of religion, psychedelic in its intensity, transformative in its grip on the body, shaking loose something primal that’s been buried too long. It’s not about thinking,It’s about moving, feeling, surrendering. His influences are a riot of contradictions: Kurt Cobain’s fury, Nilsson’s fractured sweetness, Zeppelin’s power, and somewhere in there a perverted nod to William Onyeabor’s lonely calculator funk. Critics try to box him in, but Walston can’t be contained—he does chaos, and his live shows do damage, but fortunately his songs can pay the tab. Catch him and his band before he burns it all down again.
For nearly two decades, American Aquarium have pushed toward that rare form of rock-and-roll that’s revelatory in every sense. “For us the sweet spot is when you’ve got a rock band that makes you scream along to every word, and it’s not until you’re coming down at three a.m. that you realize those words are saying something real about your life,” says front-man BJ Barham. “That’s what made us fall in love with music in the first place, and that’s the goal in everything we do.” On their new album The Fear of Standing Still, the North Carolina-bred band embody that dynamic with more intensity than ever before, endlessly matching their gritty breed of country-rock with Barham’s bravest and most incisive songwriting to date. As he reflects on matters both personal and sociocultural—e.g., the complexity of Southern identity, the intersection of generational trauma and the dismantling of reproductive rights—American Aquarium instill every moment of The Fear of Standing Still with equal parts unbridled spirit and illuminating empathy.
Tickets $22 Advance / $25 Day of Show
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DOORS 5:30 PM / SHOW 7:00 PM
Tickets $27 advance / $30 day of show (21+) www.backlinemusichall.com
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In 1985 Drivin N Cryin played their first show at Atlanta’s famed 688 Club. Recent inductees to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Wisconsin Music Hall of Fame, founding members Kevn Kinney,Tim Nielsen and longtime drummer Dave V Johnson find themselves enjoying a continued legacy, having survived the pressures of fame, a shifting musical landscape, multiple lineup changes, traveling miles of back roads and highways to arrive here.
Latest projects include a re-release of Mystery Road on Island Records (Universal), aDarius Rucker cover of the band’s beloved anthem “Straight To Hell”, a remastered 1997 eponymous album re-released as Too Late To Turn Back Now followed by the latest studio album Live The Love Beautiful and the ongoing 100+ song tribute series to the songwriting of Kevn Kinney
Recent dates with Hootie & The Blowfish, The Black Crowes, Blackberry Smoke, Marshall Tucker Band and Jason Isbell amid touring the US and abroad on their own including repeat appearances on Rock Boat, Outlaw Country Cruise, Moon Crush and other specialty events.
Comfortable in their past and confident in their future, Drivin N Cryin are armed with an arsenal of songs, a full tank of gas and no intention of stopping any time soon.
www.drivinncryin.com