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TUESDAY
Ryan Bingham
Texas troubadour Bingham has the kind of voice — and songwriting chops — that should take years of hard living to achieve. He isn’t yet 30, but years on the rodeo circuit helped put some of those miles on Bingham. His music vibrates with the hard, brittle heat of the West Texas border country. It would make a fine soundtrack for reading Cormac McCarthy. And speaking of soundtracks, Bingham provided two songs for the film “Crazy Heart,” and one of them, “The Weary Kind,” won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar.
8 p.m. May 11. $15 advance. Smith’s Olde Bar, 1578 Piedmont Road, Atlanta. 404-875-1522.
WEDNESDAY
David Bromberg and Jorma Kaukonen
Back in the ’60s, Kaukonen was the Jefferson Airplane’s guitarist. He contributed some of the psychedelic era’s most stunning and beautifully textured guitar work (see the gorgeous “Good Shepherd”), giving the band a depth that many of its contemporaries lacked. Of late, he’s been exploring acoustic country blues. That’s just one of the many styles in multi-instrumentalist Bromberg’s arsenal. Over the course of more than 40 years, Bromberg has collaborated with Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan and George Harrison, among others.
8 p.m. May 12. $27.50; $25 advance. Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave., Atlanta. 404-524-7354.
THURSDAY
Ray Wylie Hubbard
He’s one of the pillars of Texas music, but Ray Wylie Hubbard is more like a hidden support than an exposed beam. There’s both yin and yang in his observational songs, where the sacred exists alongside the profane. He’s probably best known for the song “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother,” most successfully recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker in 1973. Hubbard was part of the outlaw country movement of the ’70s, but his recent work is drenched in the blues.
8 p.m. May 13. $15 advance. Smith’s Olde Bar, 1578 Piedmont Road, Atlanta. 404-875-1522.
THURSDAY
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
This diminutive soul dynamo sang with various groups and did some session work in the ’70s, but she didn’t make much impact until she hooked up with a bunch of much younger New York musicians in the late ’90s. The 54-year-old Jones was born in Augusta but moved to New York soon after her birth, though she still spent a lot of time in her early years here in the South. She’s now released four albums of retro-soul goodness with the Dap-Kings, in between stints on the road playing to packed venues in the United States and Europe.
8:30 p.m. May 13. $25. Center Stage, 1374 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta. 404-885-1365. |