CalendarNashville Shows
September 2018
01 September
06 September
Ben Danaher – 3rd & Lindsley (Nashville)
After wrapping up a summer on the road with Lori McKenna, Bruce Robison and Lindi Ortega, Danaher and his band host the album-release show for his debut LP, Still Feel Lucky (9/7 via Soundly Music). The performance will feature “Hell or Highwater,” written with Maren Morris, and his mix of character studies and inward revelations inspired by fellow troubadours Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell and Townes Van Zandt.
09 September
MC50 — Exit/In (Nashville)
Wayne Kramer, leader of Detroit’s proto-punk/hard rock band MC5, celebrates the landmark anniversary of the group’s incendiary debut album with ‘Kick Out The Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour.’ Kramer has assembled the supergroup MC50, featuring Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Dug Pinnick (King’s X) and 6 ’7" frontman Marcus Durant (Zen Guerrilla).
12 September
Alejandro Escovedo – AmericanaFest (Nashville)
The Mexican-American punk veteran brings his international tour to the US to preview his upcoming LP The Crossing (9/14 via Yep Roc), a concept album about the American immigrant experience mirroring Escovedo’s own journey. Escovedo performs with Don Antonio, the all-instrumental Italian group that also played on the record alongside MC5’s Wayne Kramer, The Stooges’ James Williamson, Joe Ely, The Only Ones and more.
13 September
Alejandro Escovedo – AmericanaFest (Nashville)
The Mexican-American punk veteran brings his international tour to the US to preview his upcoming LP The Crossing (9/14 via Yep Roc), a concept album about the American immigrant experience mirroring Escovedo’s own journey. Escovedo performs with Don Antonio, the all-instrumental Italian group that also played on the record alongside MC5’s Wayne Kramer, The Stooges’ James Williamson, Joe Ely, The Only Ones and more.
22 September
Heather Morgan – Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (Nashville)
The songwriter behind 2015’s BMI Country Song of the Year (Brett Eldredge’s “Beat of the Music”), several No. 1 singles and music by Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Maren Morris and more supports Scotty McCreery on the winter ‘Seasons Change Tour.’ The Nashville by way of Richardson, TX “creative force” (TIME) makes a name for herself as she plays music from her debut album, Borrowed Heart (10/5), including lead single “Your Hurricane.”
25 September
Donovan Woods – High Watt (Nashville)
The JUNO Award and Polaris Music Prize nominee and current Nashville songwriter (Tim McGraw, Billy Currington, Charles Kelley) embarks on a headlining fall US tour with his band, The Opposition. On stage, Woods brings to life music from his literary, pensive new album Both Ways (Meant Well), including the quietly powerful “Next Year,” which Rolling Stone Country calls “a straightforward, urgent message about the myriad ways we tend to put things off until it’s too late.”
30 September
Emily Kinney – 3rd & Lindsley (Nashville)
The songwriter, actor and “double-threat musician you need to know” (Esquire) headlines her intimate 'Same Mistakes' tour highlighting new music from Oh, Jonathan (8/24). On stage, Kinney performs with her touring band to flesh out her minimalist pop musings on nostalgia, stability and adulthood.