Genre: Country

Dan Lepien, Frank Martin Busch and The Names, & Michael Mikrut Band

Dan Lepien, Frank Martin Busch and The Names, & Michael Mikrut Band

 

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Outlaw Night<br>A Tribute to Willie, Waylon, Johnny and the Hanks

Outlaw Night
A Tribute to Willie, Waylon, Johnny and the Hanks

 

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Levi Hummon

Levi Hummon

 

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Known for his high-energy songs and live performances, Jonas Group Entertainment and Red Van Records singer-songwriter Levi Hummon announces his 15-city headline “Another Shot” Tour. With more than 175 million global streams, Levi Hummon is a genre-bending artist and songwriter who continues to grow his audience on tour, through his social platforms, playlisting and craft-songwriting. A Nashville native, Hummon has written songs for Steven Tyler, Tim McGraw, and many more including his recent global No. 1, “Somebody,” recorded by K-Pop superstar D.O. from the group EXO. Along with those, his own catalog, including the multi-million streamed “Good Riddance,” “Stupid” and “Paying For It” featuring Walker Hayes, have earned Hummon wide-spread acclaim. For more information visit https://www.levihummon.com

Church of Cash

Church of Cash

 

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“If there is anyone truer to the music and spirit of Johnny Cash, you’d have to prove it to me.” – Jamie Winpenny – Honolulu Weekly

In 2010, amidst the sunny shores of Honolulu, Jay Ernest established the Church of Cash. Drawing from his extensive experience touring across the United States, Europe, and Asia, Jay has now returned to his Minnesota roots, driven to spread the gospel of one of the world’s most influential and timeless songwriters.

The Church of Cash remains steadfast in their devotion to the music of Johnny Cash. Led by Jay’s resounding baritone voice, their performances echo the gentle breeze of the prairie and resonate with the commanding stomp of a boot heel. Far from being a typical country band, the Church of Cash stands as a tribute band with a clear mission: to honor the lasting legacy of Johnny Cash. They have traversed the roads, tested their mettle, and stand ever-ready to celebrate the very soul of American music.

Whether you are a seasoned individual who grew up listening to Mr. Cash in the seat of your tractor or a young soldier navigating the deserts of the Middle East with the Man in Black’s melodies in your headphones, the Church of Cash promises to deliver his music to fans everywhere, infused with their own unique style and vibrant energy.

What sets the Church of Cash apart from the rest is their unwavering loyalty to the songs and the messages that Johnny left behind for all of us. With a youthful spirit, they breathe life into his words, ensuring that audiences are entertained and captivated by his enduring legacy.

Jaime Wyatt

Jaime Wyatt

 

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Jaime Wyatt

Hailed by Pitchfork as one of the “most exciting and skillful storytellers” working today, Jaime Wyatt is the kind of generational talent whose raw, honest lyricism is matched only by the power of her huge, unmistakable voice. A West Coast native, Wyatt first began turning heads with her breakout 2017 debut, Felony Blues, which chronicled her now much-publicized battle with addiction and transformative journey through the criminal justice system. Her 2020 follow-up, Neon Cross, tackled even more profoundly personal revelations and arrived to similar acclaim, with NPR praising Wyatt’s “remarkable voice” and Rolling Stone lauding her “lush, layered, and complex” performances. With Feel Good, her third and most ambitious album yet, Wyatt pushes her sound to new sonic and emotional heights, blurring the lines between classic roots, southern soul, and vintage R&B.

“I wanted to make music you could move to,” Wyatt explains, “but I still wanted it to have heart and integrity.”

Recorded with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, the album is bold and ecstatic, built on tight, intoxicating grooves that belie the songs’ substantial emotional stakes. Wyatt’s writing is unguarded and intuitive here, tapping into the deep recesses of her subconscious as she reckons with grief and growth, and her delivery is visceral to match, cutting straight to the bone with equal parts sensitivity and swagger. Taken as a whole, the collection stands as a radical act of creative liberation from an artist already known for pushing limits, a genre-defying work of healing and self-love that tips its cap to everything from Al Green and Otis Redding to Waylon Jennings and Bobbie Gentry in its relentless pursuit of peace and pleasure.

Joshua Quimby

Hailing from the quiet woods & countryside of Eastern Connecticut, the now Nashville, TN-based artist combines his powerful voice, expressively raw lyricism, and explosive guitar picking to produce distinctly unique and genuine material. Equipped with a sound that is rustic and righteous; tried and true – Joshua has many stories to tell.

MadCountry Jamboree

MadCountry Jamboree

 

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High Noon Saloon’s MadCountry Jamboree showcases five of southern Wisconsin’s hottest country acts. This is a rare opportunity to catch all of these whiskey shootin’, boot scootin’, shit kickin’ bands together. You don’t want to miss this hell raisin’, barn burnin’, beer guzzin’ heck of a show!

2PM-2:50 The Spine Stealers (patio)
2:50-3:40 The Ramble (indoors)
3:40-4:30 Pupy Costello and The New Hiram Kings (patio)
4:30-5:30 Dan Lepien Band (indoors)
5:45-7PM Driveway Thriftdwellers (indoors)
7PM-7:20 All Band Country Jam

The Spine Stealers
This two-gal duo, with band accompaniment, make spooky folk that is heavily influenced by the northwood pines, 24/7 truck stops, heartbreak and dark lakes. This quickly emerging group were the Blue Ox Festival’s Virtual Band Competition Winning Artist in 2023.
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The Ramble
This 6-piece traditional country band shot onto the scene this year and is burning up stages throughout the State, including taking 2nd place in the Hodag Festival’s Best WI Country Band this past summer. If 90’s-00’s country is your jam, The Ramble is your band.
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Pupy Costello and The New Hiram Kings
Wisconsin’s hardest honky tonking classic country and western swing crooner has resurfaced with a hot new band of ace players ripping off classic juke joint country and western swing tunes. If you like your honky tonk fully basted, then this is the band for you.
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Dan Lepien Band
Original. Wisconsin. Country. That sums up this rising star in traditional country music. Hailing from the heartland of Wisconsin, where the rolling farmlands and picturesque woods and lakes deeply influenced his musical journey, Dan Lepien’s strong connection to his rural roots echoes through his authenticity and soulful sound.
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Driveway Thriftdwellers
This Milwaukee based country band was described by the Isthmus as “a vintage yard sale that Merle Haggard might have thrown.” Straightforward country music storytelling and songwriting paired with uber-talented musicians equals one thing…a kick ass headlining act.
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[SOLD OUT] Dirtwire

[SOLD OUT] Dirtwire

 

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Dirtwire

Dirtwire stands poised between ancient Mother Earth and modern technology, a blend of ethnomusicology and the psychedelic trance state, gut-bucket delta blues and what the band variously dubs “back-porch space cowboy blues, swamptronica, and electro-twang.” It’s a sound informed by Dirtwire’s travels and performances around the globe, where East meets West and North joins South. From the favelas in Brazil, Femi Kuti’s Shrine in Lagos, Tokyo’s bluegrass clubs, Ayahuasca ceremonies in Central America, Gamelan performances in Bali, desert festivals in the Australian Outback, and the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s modernized new capital Astana, the band spreads its message by building bridges across musical cultures in their own unique way.

Dirtwire plays an array of instruments both ancient and modern, including West African kamale ngonis, jaw harps, space fiddles, whamola basses, Rickenbacher electric 12 string guitars, bowed Banjos and mouth harps from around the globe, all interwoven into modern laptop beat creation. Hailing from the underground west coast electronic bass music scene Dirtwire finds itself at the forefront of experimental electronic music production mixing in their wide array of world instruments with sampled beats and 808’s. Dirtwire’s live shows are a communal psychedelic journey, ranging from down home boot stomping get downs, to bass and blues electronic mashups, to ethereal cinematic beat driven soundscapes. Woven into each is the exploration of where live instruments meet computer production, and where tradition meets experimentation.

Dale Watson

Dale Watson

 

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In the late 19th century, a budding young musician by the name of Huddie William Ledbetter left his home in Harrison County, TX after his father sought to discourage the boy’s artistic ambitions by referring to Huddie’s guitar as a “starvation box,” cursed to bring only poverty and famine. That young man would go on to have an unimaginably profound impact on music, becoming internationally recognized as folk blues pioneer Lead Belly. Over a hundred years later, Lead Belly’s musical lineage continues, and his story still provides inspiration for artists, including country outlaw and fellow Texan Dale Watson who is set to release a new acoustic album that puts Watson’s own starvation box front and center.

Starvation Box begins with the captivating title track, which Watson co-wrote with CMA award-winning songwriter Mike Henderson, of Chris Stapleton’s “Broken Halos” fame. The song rides
a bluesy 12-string guitar riff backed by a sparse rhythm track that gives ample room for Watson’s leathery baritone voice. As Watson explains, “Living in Marshall, TX, the area so influential to Lead Belly, I went down the Lead Belly rabbit hole. It led me to a 1957 Stella 12- string guitar just like the one Lead Belly had, which his father called a ‘starvation box.’ I knew I
had to write that song as an ode to Lead Belly. What I wrote was ok but with Mike Henderson’s additions and of course, his slide guitar and harmonica, I think we came up with a fitting tribute that I hope people like.”

There’s plenty more bluesy, folk and roots rock in store on Starvation Box, the album, including an ode to Elvis Presley’s mechanic, “Billy Strawn,” a fantastic cover of Percy Mayfield’s “Like
A Stranger In My Own Hometown,” and the superb closer, a gospel rave-up called “Ain’t Nobody Eveybody Loved.” Catch it on CD and digital available everywhere July 7!

Cash In Hand<br>A Johnny Cash Tribute

Cash In Hand
A Johnny Cash Tribute

 

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MIPSO

MIPSO

 

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“Book of Fools” is the new Mipso album. Some of the songs feel pretty rock and roll. There’s a looseness and an energy to the 11-song batch, with electric guitars and barroom piano and a good groove on the kit. It has some nice harmonies, too, the tight kind you’d expect from four friends who’ve been singing together for a decade. The songs are really good ones. You’ll want to keep singing them loud in the car and in your head while you walk around the supermarket. They may stick with you for a while.

The album came to life in the North Carolina mountains in the fall along with some long hikes along cold creeks. Then the band (aka Jacob, Joseph, Libby, and Wood) gathered in Oakland, California’s cherished Tiny Telephone Studio and stayed relaxed about the process. They invited long-time buddy Shane Leonard to play drums and produce, turned up the amps, and did a lot of it live to tape. On their sixth record–and after 1100 shows together– it felt fun to try some new sounds on the vibraphone, farfisa, mellotron, moog. Mostly they did what they do best: sing great and play great and write good songs. Maybe it’s better to think of Mipso as an American band, rather than an Americana band. Their attitude toward tradition could remind you of The Dead–or if we leave America, The Band and Fairport Convention. You have to absorb a lot of folk music to feel comfortable messing around with it. “Book of Fools” feels cozy and familiar but also strange, its songs sparkling with hand-me-down melodies and odd sounds and unanswered questions. Unanswerable questions. What would be the point in trying?

Mipso formed in 2012 as an excuse to play together between classes in Chapel Hill. Joseph Terrell came from a family of banjo-playing uncles and a guitarist grandma, and he’d gotten curious again about the string band music he’d heard as a kid. Jacob Sharp was raised on equal parts Doc Watson and Avett Brothers in the mountains of North Carolina and he was hunting for a chance to sing some harmonies. Wood Robinson added a Charlie Haden-esque interest in bridging jazz and grass sensibilities on the double bass, and Libby Rodenbough soon joined on fiddle, unsatisfied by her classical violin training but drawn like a moth toward the glow of old, weird Americana.

Their first album, “Dark Holler Pop,” produced by Andrew Marlin (Watchhouse), included Terrell-penned fan favorites “Louise” and “Couple Acres Greener” and turned recent-grads Mipso (“let’s try this for a year,” etc.) into a full-blown touring band. Although it hung out on the Billboard Bluegrass top 10, its sonic mission statement was in the name: “Dark Holler Pop” was groovier and catchier than its string band contemporaries; its unabashed poppiness belied the songs’ durability and depth.

2015’s “Old Time Reverie” earned them an invitation to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade wherein they rolled down 5th Avenue on a 12 foot bucket of fried chicken. They got to have breakfast on the green room bus with Pat Benatar and Questlove, but in hindsight the whole experience was a little beside the point. They doubled down on touring, playing upwards of 175 shows a year, honing a telepathic, sibling-esque connection onstage.

2017’s “Coming Down The Mountain,” produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee) added drums and pedal steel and put the band on bigger stages with an expanded Americana sound, including the Rodenbough-fronted title track, another streaming hit and live staple.

Mipso considered hanging up their hats in 2018 while recording “Edges Run” with Todd Sickafoose (Ani DiFranco, Anais Mitchell). After five years of near-constant touring, they had started to wake up in hotel rooms wondering what state they were in; they’d never had pets. The album took off. Sharp’s intimate vocal on “People Change” floated into dorm rooms and coffee shops across America, cementing Mipso as a bona fide streaming success across four albums and placing them in that rarefied strata of bands with three distinct lead singers: The Band, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Sonic Youth, The Wailers, The B-52’s, Phish, Mipso. 2020’s self-titled start-fresh album on Rounder Records brought experimental Canadian producer Sandro Perri into the mix and minted a collection with moodier landscapes and unexpected textures such as “Hey, Coyote” and “Big Star”.

Post-pandemic Mipso is starting fresh again with “Book of Fools”. The songs might be their best yet: “Carolina Rolling By” shows Terrell at his most relaxed and confident while the band turns a story of a pill-popping truck driver into a meditative cosmic country-tinged head bopper. “The Numbers” flirts with 60s surf rock while Rodenbough winks and wags a finger at our market-obsessed culture, and “Broken Heart/Open Heart” features Sharp at his most heart-wrenching and earnest. Other standouts “East” and “Radio Hell” will infect you with earworms made of guitar riffs, Robinson’s pretzel-twisted upright bass lines, and saturated “ooohs” drifting in as if on AM radio waves.

Rock, country, indie-Americana: genre descriptors try but miss the point, which is that these four people and only these four people could’ve made this album. Only a decade in the van could’ve made this album. Only four personalities held in sustained, frictional balance could’ve made this album with its sizzling energy and unlikely cohesion. Mipso did it again. These are searching, driving songs from a band that’s still trying to say something different, still going somewhere new.