Alejandro Escovedo Band!
Escovedo's music can range from full force rock'n'roll to the subtle delicacy heard from a string quartet, sometimes in the same song. Fricke describes him well as "a folk-blues classicist with a gritty, plaintive voice and an equal fondness for dirty boogie and spectral balladry." That approach has distinguished Escovedo as one of contemporary music's truly original and unique artists, earning him consistent critical hosannas. The breadth and depth of his creativity prompted No Depression magazine to name him its Artist of the Decade even before the close of the 1990s. 

Kevin Gordon & Band
" . . . easily one of Nashville's best, most literate and incisive songwriters(killer performer onstage, too). --The Tennessean

" . . . f**king bloody William Shakespeare "--Keith Richards

"With a blues-based sound that veers into Chuck Berry-styled rock 'n roll, Kevin Gordon remains one of Nashville's best performers, hands down." --The Tennessean

"Writing with the poetry and economy of Dave Alvin and Lucinda Williams . . . the Louisiana roots-rocker returns with more gritty portraits of the down-and-out who can't go home again. He evokes the scorching guitar intensity of Springsteen, an obvious influence on his songs of drunks, highway shootings, and the rusted rails of abandoned towns.(B+)" --Entertainment Weekly