Saturday, May 10th @ 9:00pm
The Coal Men w/ Possum Jenkins
Tickets: $10

*** This show has been canceled by the artist. ***

Sunday, May 11th @ 7:00pm
Charlie Louvin w/ Swingin' Johnsons
Tickets: $15 Advance / $18 Day Of Show
Mother's Day Special - Mom's get in FREE w/ 2 Paid Tickets

The term "living legend" gets thrown around quite a bit, but it actually applies to Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin.

The magical harmonies and depth of feeling found on Louvin Brothers recordings of the 50's and 60's inspired a new generation of musicians, firmly establishing the Louvins' stature as one of the most influential duos in country music history.

Charlie's solo career began in 1964 with the top five hit "I Don't Love You Anymore," and he followed it with six Billboard-charting singles from 12 Capitol LPs. By the late 60's, a renewed interest in the music of the Louvin Brothers began to take shape.

In 2006, the Tompkins Square label reached out to Charlie about making his first new studio album in over ten years. They enlisted Mark Nevers, who engineered sessions for many top country artists, and produced Calexico, Lambchop, Candi Staton among others. Guests on the album include Elvis Costello, George Jones, Jeff Tweedy, Will Oldham, Tom T. Hall, Tift Merritt, Marty Stuart, Bobby Bare Sr., David Kilgour, members of Bright Eyes, Lambchop, Clem Snide, Superchunk and more.

The Louvins' continued legacy is at least partly attributed to Gram Parsons, who, according to legend, paid people to scour LA record shops looking for their out-of-print sides. His versions of Louvins classics "The Christian Life" from the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, or "Cash on the Barrelhead" from Grevious Angel, serve as the blueprint for so much "alt-country" that was to follow. Emmylou Harris' first hit was the Louvins' "If I Could Only Win Your Love." Uncle Tupelo covered "Great Atomic Power" on their third album, March 16-20, 1992. "The Christian Life" has been worked into The Raconteurs' live set recently.

The Louvin Brothers were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October 2001.

About the Swingin' Johnsons, legendary LA singer/songwriter Randy Weeks said they sounded like a cross between "Johnny Cash and the Killer!" The Independent said they could have "done without the name." They're Raleigh's own Swingin' Johnsons and if you ain't seen 'em, well... don't you think you should?! They'll perform their staple fare of JR Cash, DAC, Hank Jr and Merle Haggard covers, mix in a few Old 97s and Mike Ness tunes and their own original (soon-to-be) hits "You Ain't Johnny Cash", "One Little Three Way", and "I Wanna Girl with a Big Texas Spread."

Friday, May 16th @ 9:00pm
Tinsley Ellis w/ The Gentleman Jack Blues Band
Tickets: $12 Advance / $15 Day Of Show

Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tinsley Ellis ranks among the top blues/rock guitarists working today. Ellis sings and plays with the energy and soul of all the great Southern musicians who have come before him. He attacks his music with rock power and blues feeling, in the same tradition as Deep South musical heroes Duane Allman, Freddie King and Warren Haynes. Atlanta Magazine declared Ellis "the most significant blues artist to emerge from Atlanta since Blind Willie McTell." Since first hitting the national scene with his Alligator Records debut GEORGIA BLUE in 1988, Ellis has toured non-stop and continued to release one critically acclaimed album after another. Tinsley’s hometown paper, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, calls his music, "a potent, amazing trip through electric blues-rock." Rolling Stone said, "feral blues guitar...non-stop gigging has sharpened his six-string to a razor’s edge...his eloquence dazzles...he achieves pyrotechnics that rival Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton."

And now, following up on the success of his 2005 CD, LIVE-HIGHWAYMAN, Ellis returns with MOMENT OF TRUTH. Produced by Ellis, MOMENT OF TRUTH is a giant leap forward in his career. Capturing all the power and energy of his legendary live performances, the new CD is the most guitar-driven, aggressive studio recording he has ever made. His vocals reach new heights of soulfulness and expressiveness; his guitar playing is ferocious and relentless, but when the mood calls for it, gentle and moving. But what really sets the album apart is the depth of Ellis’ songwriting. The material deals in matters both personal and universal and runs the gamut of human emotions. MOMENT OF TRUTH is Ellis’ most wide-ranging and inspired recording.

Gentleman Jack is an exciting new band from the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. The group plays a gritty mix of straight blues, hard country and organic rock. There’s no jazz in Gentleman Jack’s setlist, but their core sound is blues classics such as "Before You Accuse Me," "Crossroads" and "Hoochie Coochie Man"; gutbucket rock like "Sympathy for the Devil," "Hey Joe" and "Keep Your Hands To Yourself"; and hard-bitten country such as "Folsom Prison Blues." The Gentleman Jack Blues Band aims for that place in your soul where the blues and bluesy music lives.

Sunday, May 18th @ 6:00pm
Jim White (Trio with Ollabelle's Fiona McBain and Pat Hargon)
Tickets: $12 Advance / $15 Day Of Show

Jim White is a traveler, a Renaissance man, and a candid musical chronicler of the South. At various points in his life, he’s been a Pentacostal, fashion model, New York taxi driver, drifter, pro-surfer, photographer, and filmmaker. All this wandering finds its way into his intriguing music. Categorized as "outer-space alternative country," White's first few albums, including Wrong-Eyed Jesus and No Such Place, were all critically acclaimed. PopMatters says his latest album, Transnormal Skiperoo, "resonates with themes of traveling, becoming lost, and maybe just finding your way home again, and not just in the physical sense." White also starred in the award-winning road-movie, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.

Jim White traveled many a junkyard road to get to Transnormal Skiperoo. Raised in Pensacola, Florida, a town crushed between the church and heroin, Jim’s songs reach deep into the underbelly of the South. Now living in an old farmhouse in the backwoods of Georgia, Jim White may have finally reached a place called home, but his other search, for what he calls 'the gold tooth in God’s crooked smile’ continues in this new set of backyard tales.

Transnormal Skiperoo was produced by Joe Pernice and Michael Deming and recorded with the band Ollabelle. One of Ollabelle's vocalists, the lovely Fiona McBain, is touring with Jim, as is gifted guitarist/ songwriter Pat Hargon from Athens, Georgia.

Tuesday, May 27th @ 8:00pm
James McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards
Tickets: $15

As a young boy growing up in Texas, James McMurtry wanted to be Johnny Cash. His mother taught him to play a few chords on the guitar and he started writing songs around the age of 18.

Seven albums later, Childish Things was named Best Album of 2006 at the American Music Awards. "We Can't Make it Here," a grim lament about economic conditions in the United States, was also named Best Song. (And when you listen to it, you can hear Johnny Cash's influence in every intonation.)

On his new record, Just Us Kids, James McMurty follows up his critically acclaimed Childish Things with a dozen new, sharply drawn illuminations as he continues to hone and expand his considerable gifts. And the self-produced opus (James’ fourth venture pulling strings on both sides of the glass) unquestionably represents his most ambitious, accomplished and ass-kicking presentation to date.

These recent years have found James McMurtry’s many skills steadily coalescing into an increasingly substantial, formidable whole: the voice, the tunes, the stories and the musicianship have become elementally interwoven to create the inimitable fabric of a distinct, singular artist who’s determined to get to the heart of the matter, shake things up and do whatever it takes to make a difference.

In his regular column for Entertainment Weekly, noted author (and passionate rock ’n’ roll enthusiast) Stephen King cited McMurtry as "the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation."

Thursday, May 29th @ 8:00pm
The Wiyos
Tickets: $10 Advance / $12 Day Of Show

Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, The Wiyos will blow your musical mind. Think of the [Asylum Street] Spankers crossed with vaudeville performers, plus a dash of Reverend Gary Davis and Skip James thrown in for good measure. The trio has developed a sound and performance reminiscent of the early '20s and '30s with a completely contemporary feel. From covering songs by Louis Armstrong, the Memphis Jug Band, Blind Boy Fuller, the Washboard Wonders (and many others) to creating their own unique originals, the Wiyos are bringing an almost lost generation of music into a new era complete with old-time souls to truly expand anyone's musical experience."

"Pure old-fashioned entertainment. Looking suitably wacky, every song elicited whoops and hollers and cheers from the audience, who thoroughly enjoyed themselves from start to finish. Their in-between song patter was funny, their hat juggling accomplished, but most of all their musicianship was outstanding. " -Americana, UK

"Dazzling musicianship and mind blowing shows.... Supremely accomplished musicians and overwhelmingly entertaining." -Mark Schaffer, Storynsong.com

"The Wiyos are way too good to open for my band ever again. Those guys kick more ass than should be allowed." -Wammo, Asylum Street Spankers

Saturday, May 31st @ 9:00pm
Fred Eaglesmith & The Flying Squirrels w/ Sally Spring
Tickets: $18 Advance / $20 Day Of Show

Award-winning singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith inspires comparisons to icons like Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen, tops the roots music charts, and boasts devoted fans that include a slew of his fellow songwriters. High-profile tastemakers in the know — fellow musicians like Toby Keith and The Cowboy Junkies as well as film folks like Martin Scorsese and James Caan, to name a few — consider him one of the stellar musical and lyrical talents of our day. Though a decidedly grassroots artist in the thematic focus of his songs and how he pursues his career, playing some 180 shows a year across North America as well as Europe and Australia and releasing his own records under his cheekily-titled A Major Label imprint, Eaglesmith boasts an impact that far better known musical acts can only dream of. Eaglesmith writes "songs that rattle around in your head like empty beer bottles in the back of a pickup," as one critic puts it. He has won a Juno Award — the Canadian Grammy — for Best Roots & Traditional Album and a Canadian Independent Music Award for Folk/Roots Album of the Year. Eaglemsith's music has been described by reviewers as a "blend of aching country and barroom rock" and a "mixture of hard-edged honky-tonk balanced between rock'n'roll and early '60s country music." His dynamic live shows are "exactly like the sort of music you dream of hearing in some crowded, hot, beery bar near closing time... a truly timeless brand of primitive rock'n'roll," says Amazon.com. Eaglesmith is also known as a between-song raconteur whose pointed and illuminating storytelling and comedic skills are as sharp as his songwriting. Hailed by Variety as "a captivating performer," and a "show stopper" by Sing Out, "Veteran folk-rocker Sally Spring performs with the likes of Gene Parsons and Marshall Crenshaw as well as local luminaries Tift Merritt and Caitlin Cary. But Sally's stunning voice and captivating songwriting make her the heartbeat that keeps the whole enterprise pumping," The Independent notes. Sally casts a mesmerizing spell on both record and the stage and weaves into her own tapestry English folk-rock, bluegrass, old time music, country-rock of yore and today's alternative country along with touches of everything from New York rock to classic folk to pop. If you like Sandy Denny, Rosanne Cash, or Gillian Welch you’ll love Sally’s music.

Sunday, June 1st @ 7:00pm
The Gougers
Tickets: $8

For The Gougers, it is more important that audiences hear the lyrics of the songs created by the singing/writing team of Shane Walker and Jamie Wilson — poems of vivid imagery, human struggle, subtle social comment, truth — than be concerned with what sort of genre the band’s music fits into.

That’s because The Gougers’ sound takes in most genres, constantly moving in and out of country, rock, folk, roots, or mixing them up, as Walker and Wilson experiment and evolve as songwriters. They’re playing with rhythm and instrumental effects, too, along the lines of influences and music mavericks Ryan Adams, Emmylou Harris and Bright Eyes and premier musical partners David Rawlings and Gillian Welch.When the four put their talented heads together, what results is an eclectic blend of new music and lyrics refined to the basics — as stark yet as loaded with meaning as the band’s logo and band members' tattoos: a crying bird ready to fly from its perch atop a broken heart.

Thursday, June 5th @ 8:00pm
Wrinkle Neck Mules
Tickets: $8

The five piece Wrinkle Neck Mules temper the roots racket of US forebearers Go to Blazes and The Bottlerockets with the more studious demands of bluegrass. Frontman Andy Stepanian has the throat tones of Steve Earle, shading these songs of old hounds, ditch weed and arsenic in the veins with the darkness they demand. And while there are traces of classic Bakersfield in "Ringing in the Days", it's the mandolin and banjo-picking that truly shine, particularly on "The Whistler Knows Best". "Swagger & Honesty" meanwhile sounds like a Southern anthem fit for Skynryd.

It’s easy to appraise the Wrinkle Neck Mules as a less mature Drive-By Truckers, owing to the multi-guitar, multi-singer/songwriter, multi-harmony approach that both bands share. And, of course, there are the dusty shadowings of Uncle Tupelo in this Mule’s DNA. But these observations aren’t detractions—this is a band that is proud of its roots, and welcomes the proud traditions and conventions of countr music. This is country music for country music fans.

Sunday, June 8th @ 7:00pm
The Two Man Gentlemen Band
Tickets: $8

Free kazoos, impeccably tailored outfits, rowdy sing-alongs, furious banjo strumming, and a set full of quirky, clever, sometimes-naughty original tunes. That’s The Two Man Gentlemen Band’s formula for a good, old-fashioned musical spectacle.

Hailing from New York City, The Two Man Gentlemen Band combines hot jazz, old-time country, tin pan alley, and vaudevillian swing to create a joyous two-man sound that is all their own. Performing with plectrum banjo, string bass, kazoos, and foot percussion, The Gentlemen whip themselves into a frenzy that is unlike any acoustic duo on the road today. With the energy of a band two or three times their numbers, The Two Man Gentlemen Band concocts a ruckus that is lively, danceable, and insanely fun.

The music provides a perfect foundation for The Gentlemen’s wry, idiosyncratic lyrics, which vary in subject from the historical, to the romantic, to the bawdy, to the inane. On their latest album alone, (Heavy Petting, Serious Business Records) The Gentlemen sing an ode to William Howard Taft, compare true love to the square root of two, celebrate the skills of a female kazooist, challenge each other to a badminton duel, and extol the virtues of, you guessed it, heavy petting. Though they pepper many of their tunes with playful innuendo, The Gentlemen – being Gentlemen, after all - never utter a vulgar word. The unifying element in their music is not the occasional naughty insinuation, but rather the clever, good-natured wit that shines through in each of their songs – especially when they are performed live on stage.

Beginning with the ritual distribution of free kazoos (provided by the band’s sponsor, Kazoos.com) and ending with a camp-revival-like shout-along about our fattest president, a live performance by The Two Man Gentlemen Band is a non-stop festival of interactive, old-fashioned entertainment. Banjoist Andy Bean serves as master of ceremonies and scarcely allows the band or the audience to take a breath. Equal parts vaudevillian comic, depression-era huckster, and society gentleman, Bean cajoles the audience to participate; scolding them playfully when they cannot answer one of his trivia questions ("What’s the difference between a blimp and a zeppelin?") and offering constructive critiques of their performance during one of the show’s many kazoo-alongs ("You sound like a swarm of locusts!"). Bassist Fuller Condon plays the silent straight-man, stoically accepting the antics of his partner with the mild disdain of an older sibling.

Two years of full-time street-performing in New York City’s Central Park taught the gentlemen this: when the band slows down, the audience takes a hike. So, The Two Man Gentlemen Band never slows down. And the audience never stops smiling.

"One of the most entertaining shows I’ve ever seen and most certainly the funniest! I was in stitches all night long!" –Matt Morelock, WDVX-FM, Knoxville, TN

Tuesday, June 10th @ 8:00pm
Amy LaVere
Tickets: $8

If you haven't been fortunate enough to hear Amy LaVere, chances are you've at least seen her. LaVere, a singer, songwriter and bassist who draws on influences as varied as Billie Holliday, Leonard Cohen and Dolly Parton, played rockabilly pioneer Wanda Jackson in the highly successful Johnny Cash biopic, "Walk the Line." She followed that performance with heavy screen time in "Black Snake Moan" starring Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Ricci – though let's be frank, movie roles are only well and good if that's your primary job. Born in a small Texas-Louisiana border town, LaVere was schooled in the ways of traditional country by her parents before landing in Detroit where she fronted a punk band while in her teens. She eventually moved to Memphis, where her roots in "classic country, jazz and gypsy blues" came into its own during studio work for latest release "Anchors & Anvils" with the legendary Jim Dickinson, whose fingerprints are on classics like Big Star's "Third/Sister Lovers" and The Replacements' "Pleased To Meet Me." The Chicago Tribune described LaVere as a "Southern girl thumping a doghouse bass bigger than she is and singing in a woozy, whispery voice that casts an intoxicating spell." Jim Dickinson said "she triple slaps the bass like Willie Dixon on steroids."

Thursday, June 12 @ 8:00pm
Enter The Haggis
Tickets: $12 Advance / $15 Day Of Show

There aren't many groups in North America who could lay claim to possibly 18 different genres of music, but Toronto's Enter The Haggis is one of them. To engage this quintet is to indulge rock, fusion, bluegrass, traditional Celtic fare, agitpop, folk, even Latin flavors. Sounds awfully confused, right? Wrong. ETH is one of those rare jewels that actually pulls it all off as if to own everything.

Back in the mid-nineties, the band was but a glimmer in the eye of piper Craig Downie. Busking on the streets of Toronto, Downie's original intention was to get reacquainted with the bagpipes he'd put down while trying to make a go of it as an actor and create a job for himself. At the time, Craig was listening to a few things that had hinted at the fusion of rock and Celtic music. He saw the future. By the end of the decade, the formative Enter The Haggis lineup was in full effect and by the release of Enter The Haggis Live! in 2002, the band would become quite a larger animal, amassing fans from coast to coast.

The Celtic influence remains palpably intact, which is likely the reason why core fans have stayed so loyal over the past decade. Still, Enter The Haggis continues to break new ground with every offering, and the power of the music is only made more significant by their socio-political conviction. 2004's Casualties Of Retail meshed the aforementioned musical synthesis with lyrics that grab a hold of pertinent issues and cut right to the chase. Standout tracks like "Gasoline" and "Congress" shone a light on a well-established social consciousness and channeled it through a sense of musical experimentation arguably unmatched by other groups with their origins.

ETH's live show is a musical feast- viscerally dynamic, emotionally uplifting and intellectually stimulating. The band's oeuvre darts effortlessly from the trad strains of, say, The Chieftains and the Pogues to the frenetic pop of early Elvis Costello and even to the Latin-tinged spirit of the Buena Vista Social Club and beyond, complete with Lewington's deft guitar playing, the reeling of Brian Buchanan's flawless fiddle, the diverse rhythmic machinations of bassist Mark Abraham and drummer James Campbell, and Downie's transporting pipes, not to mention the near-perfect vocal harmonies. In fact, if you're game, the group's undeniable power is documented in Live at Lanigan's Ball, a film chronicling an Enter The Haggis performance at Plattsburgh, New York's Hartman Theatre in December of 2003, originally taped for a PBS special, and now available on DVD.

Friday, June 13th @ 9:00pm
Don Dixon & The Jump Rabbits
Tickets: $15

Don Dixon has devoted his entire life to the popular song. Whether working as a singer, songwriter, musician or producer, he has always tried to capture the essence of his life in the moment.

He began playing and recording in his mid-teens, co-founding ARROGANCE, a band that helped forge the North Carolina scene which brought the world Let's Active and The dBs, along with dozens of other bands that followed in their wake. Dixon went solo in 1983 and has released nine cds. He is currently at work on a new recording with his long-time touring band, Jamie Hoover and Jim Brock. After twenty years, Jamie has named the group "Don Dixon & the Jump Rabbits". The new platter is called "The Nu-Look" and is due in 2008.

Dixon's writing, production and session credits include Chris Allen, astroPuppees, Baby Shaker, Richard Barone, Jim Brock, Mark Bryan, Kim Carnes, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Caitlin Cary, Joe Cocker, The Connells, Counting Crows, Marshall Crenshaw, Pat DiNizio, The Edison Project, Dip Ferrell & the Truetones, Fetchin Bones, GB Leighton, The Golden Palominos, Guadalcanal Diary, Hootie and the Blowfish, In Tua Nua, Billy Jeffords, Marti Jones, Tommy Keene, Let's Active, James McMurtry, Moxy Fruvous, REM, The Red Clay Ramblers, The Smithereens, Snagglepuss, Ronnie Spector, The Spongetones, Chris Stamey, Matthew Sweet, Volatile Baby, The X-Teens and dozens more.

Sunday, June 15th @ 7:00pm
The Bluerunners
Tickets: $10

"Lafayette Cajun rock band The Bluerunners have always excelled onstage, revving up an electric fusion of Cajun music and roots rock like a Lafayette-based Replacements." - Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Mark Meaux formed The Bluerunners in 1987, an especially inventive musical era, even by South Louisiana's high standards. Lafayette and environs were cresting a heady wave of cultural resurgence that began swelling in the late 1970s. They blended Cajun music and zydeco with a wealth of far-flung contemporary styles to invent a vital new sound that evolved constantly. All genres were fair play for this creative process, and Mark Meaux chose to meld his Cajun roots with punk rock.

In 1991 The Bluerunners leapt from Lafayette, Louisiana into the white-hot glare of the national limelight. Propelled by a seamless (if seemingly unlikely) blend of frenetic cowpunk originals and traditional Cajun music, The Bluerunners' self-titled major label album earned the group rave reviews in rock circles and an important niche in the rich musical history of South Louisiana. Critics praised The Bluerunners' making favorable comparisons to the likes of The Band, and Los Lobos. Years on the road, and four studio albums later, The Bluerunners shine radiant once again, thanks to their glowing new album, LIVE at The Triple Door. As always, The Bluerunners remain rooted in the Cajun music and Creole zydeco of their home turf, as well as the gutbucket blues and country that form the musical language of the South. The edgy punk sensibility of their early years is still evident as well.

Tuesday, June 17th @ 8:00pm
Chuck Prophet
Tickets: $10 Advance / $12 Day Of Show

Chuck Prophet hit the road in the '80s with the psychedelic-roots band Green on Red straight out of high school and never looked back. In addition to working as a singer/songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and musical collaborator with artists diverse as Cake, Kim Carnes and Solomon Burke, Prophet's deepening solo catalog of self-produced "sideways" roots rock has steadily becoming his calling card.

Born in the Southern California suburb of Whittier, the San Francisco-based Prophet made his debut as a solo artist in 1990 with Brother Aldo (Fire Records); one U.K. music paper called its collision of lo-fi and country "As close to the genuine article as a white boy can get." Developing his style over the course of seven albums, including Balinese Dancer (1993) and Feast of Hearts (1995), Prophet hit his stride with his gritty meditation on suburbia, Homemade Blood (Hightone, 1997) followed by the studio tweaked and poetic The Hurting Business (Hightone, 1998) and the streetwise epic No Other Love (New West, 2002) which sparked a radio hit, "Summertime Thing" (the title track was covered by Heart). His 2004 release, Age of Miracles (New West), marries vintage with state-of-the art studio technique while consistently never compromising its raw, roots foundation. Soap and Water (Yep Roc, 2007) barges through rock's barriers with a helping of swamp and hip-hop. Between albums, Kelly Willis and Boz Scaggs, among others, have laid down versions of Prophet's songs while his guitar tracks show up on recordings from Warren Zevon and Lucinda Williams to Jewel. In 2005-2006, Green on Red reunited for a series of shows. Prophet continues to perform as a solo artist and with his band, the Mission Express, featuring his wife, Stephanie Finch, on keyboards and vocals.

Friday, June 27th @ 9:00pm
Drunk Stuntmen
Tickets: $8

This Spring will see the release of State Fair, the fifth studio album from veteran Northampton rockers Drunk Stuntmen. State Fair contains 11 new songs recorded and mixed by Mitch Easter (REM, Let's Active). The album is being issued via their own Drunk Stuntmen imprint. Members of Drunk Stuntmen's "virtual" fan club will have the chance to download the entire CD in advance of its street date and at a discounted price. Access to the fan club is acquired by activating the enhanced portion of previously released Drunk Stuntmen CDs which links to the upcoming album's music and artwork.

State Fair is a mature, reflective, and energetic follow up to 2005's rollicking Trailer Life. The new album is loaded with the kind of smart, catchy, guitar-driven rock that is the band's trademark.The Drunk Stuntmen's music occupies a common ground between Americana, good time rock 'n' roll, and improvisatory stretching-out. Drunk Stuntmen's collective influences include the likes of Neil Young, Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Led Zeppelin, and Gram Parsons as well as David Bowie, The Pixies, and XTC. Over the past 15 years, Drunk Stuntmen have thoroughly cooked these ingredients up into a style uniquely their own.

Drunk Stuntmen originally formed in 1992 under the since shelved moniker "Soup." These Massachusetts boys started off performing experimental noise-jams, more due to instrumental expertise than an active choice of genre. By 1996, they were writing cohesive country-tinged pop songs and changed their name to Drunk Stuntmen. By 1997, they had borrowed enough equipment to record a first album in their basement with indie-guru Mike Flood. Over the next ten years Drunk Stuntmen released five critically-acclaimed studio albums and a multitude of EPs.

By 2001, they'd developed into a much-demand live act playing in excess of 250 shows a year from Holland to San Francisco. They were covered in Time Magazine, had a major feature in No Depression and garnered positive press from all corners of the globe

2004 saw them joining forces with infamous octogenarian rockers the Young at Heart Chorus and delighting fans all across Europe. After the first joint tour, Stuntmen Steve Sanderson and guitarist F. Alex Johnson stayed with the Chorus as featured performers on stage and in the orchestra pit. Over the last four years this magical collaboration has performed to sell out crowds in nine countries and counting. Fox Searchlight films will be releasing a documentary titled "Young at Heart" focusing the oldsters but giving Drunk Stuntmen plenty of screen time as well.

Friday, July 18th @ 9:00pm
Unkown Hinson w/ The Bo Stevens
Tickets: $12 Advance / $15 Day Of Show

Looking somewhat like Dracula's nasty little brother who spent some hard years drinking and working as a carnival barker for a second-rate freak show, Unknown Hinson translates that vibe to his style of country and western-tinged psychobilly. Hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, this red-necked crooner gained regional popularity with a self-produced television show in 1992 and soon was touring nationwide, wowing audiences with his outrageous and campy, white-trash persona and freewheeling, sleazy tone. Hinson's most recent CD release, "Target Practice", melds weepy twang and searing guitar riffs and lyrics that speak of love-gone-bad and the dark side of the honky-tonk lifestyle. Raucous, theatrical and over-the-top, Unknown Hinson isn't just for the trailer park set anymore!

He's toured with Hank3 and Rev. Horton Heat. Billy Bob Thornton names Unknown as one of his favorite songwriters and a genius picker. Matt Groening (the Simpsons) labels Unknown as a guitar maniac (and funny as hell to boot!) Hank3 has Unknown's face tatooed on his bicep! Marty Stuart introduced him as his illegitimate brother at the Ryman in Nashville, and is placing Unknown on the front cover of his upcoming book of personal photographs. Tom Petty came backstage at a Hollywood event to ask Unknown how he gets his "sound". The Rolling Stones invited him to participate in the soundcheck session for their latest show in Charlotte, NC.

Unknown is also gaining notoriety (and fans) as the voice of lead character "Early Cuyler" in the popular new show from Cartoon Network "The Squidbillies". The first season was so well-received that an immediate green light was given to two more seasons.

Rockabilly was born in 1953 at the Saturday Night Jamboree in Memphis, but thanks to the stalwart enthusiasts of the genre like The Bo-Stevens, it continues to thrive across the country and North Carolina is certainly no exception. Richard Boyd picked up the honky tonk torch a long time ago and hasn't put it down since. He's recruited talented musicians to bring his favorite music to the masses: Greg Bell, Jeff Shu, Mark Peurifoy, and most recently Billie Feather (with whom the band seems to have found it's balance and stride). Pure love for a type of music shows up as pure joy on stage and pure enjoyment for any crowd smart enough to seek out and watch The Bo-Stevens perform live.