Charlie Robison.
Giving you the music a day early:
Texas country singer/songwriter Charlie Robison’s newest album is the summer 2009 release Beautiful Day, a 10-tune collection of rocking country such as “She’s So Fine,” slower-paced ballads such as “Reconsider” and the Bruce Springsteen cover “Racing in the Streets.” Influenced by Texas greats such as Guy Clark and Steve Earle, Robison is also responsible for writing the instantly recognizable road anthem “My Hometown,” from his 1998 release Life of the Party. Expect Robison to run through his dozen-plus years of tunes during a stop at Revolution Music Room. The opening act is Mississippi native Jason Eady with his gothic-flavored Southern soul country, and the music will start at 8:30 p.m. with tickets $10 advance and $12 day of show for the 18-and-up concert.
With influences ranging from Neil Young to Widespread Panic to Lucinda Williams, the Fayetteville folk rocking Sarah Hughes Band plays Sticky Fingerz. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. with a $5 early admission for the 21-and-up show. No word on the opening act. Hughes delivers a rocking version of folk music that has earned her several awards in northwest Arkansas, including Northwest Arkansas Music Awards’ 2008 Female Singer/Songwriter of the Year and Roots/Americana Band of the Year along with a 2009 Northwest Arkansas Music Awards Hall Of Fame induction. Born in Memphis, raised in Forrest City, with time spent in Conway and a brief sojourn in New York City, Hughes now calls Fayetteville home, playing her version of folk, rock and country along with her full electric band.
Missouri Ozark Stomp outfit The Ben Miller Band, a trio who employ slide guitar, foot drums, washtub bass, drums, washboard and trumpet to cover musical ground that dips its toes in bluegrass, zydeco, folk and rock teams up with Conway’s electric folk boogie outfit Damn Bullets for a White Water Tavern show. The Bullets — consisting of Paul Morphis, Joe Sundell, DJ Bennett and Graeme Higgins — are working on a sophomore album to add to their hip-shaking catalogue of music that melds folk, rock ‘n’ roll, blues, bluegrass and country, and tales dealing with love, death, the afterlife, friends and characters such as Georgia Brown and “Good Time Charlie.”
The four members of guitar-driven, alternative rockers pmtoday signed with Rise Records in May 2009 and entered the studio in September to record their follow-up to their 2007 self-released debut And Then The Hurricane. On April 6, the Jacksonville quartet will release their newest, the 10-track In Medias Res, an album showcasing the band’s appreciation of heavy guitar riffs, high-energy rhythms, harmony vocals and catchy verses. To celebrate, pmtoday is hosting a CD release party at The Village with Oklahoma pop rockers Progress In Color, newly reformed Little Rock indie rockers Plu and Little Rock alternative rockers Siversa also on the bill. The ticket price is to be announced, but the music will start at 7 p.m.
Here’s Charlie Robison with a live rendition of his “Beautiful Day”:
