Gig Guide
FRIDAY AT THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE
Generally, when there's a line in a country song like, "I shot a man in Texas," it's safe to assume that there's some hyperbole involved. Not so with Billy Joe Shaver. He's the real deal. Whether it's barroom gunfights, being abandoned by his parents shortly after birth, eschewing school to work on his uncle's farm or losing part of his fingers during a job at a sawmill, Shaver has lived the life of a country song. The country songs that he writes are beloved by many who will likely be singing along at the top of their lungs for this show. Doors 7 p.m./Show 8 p.m. $20-$25.
Susto with Kansas Bible Company
FRIDAY AT THE HUMMINGBIRD STAGE AND TAPROOM
The band Susto is named after a medical syndrome that's specific to Latin American culture that roughly translates to a panic attack. In Susto's case, that panic seems to stem largely from being born in the South and thinking too much about the centuries of social ills and general backwardness that's associated with the region. Frontman Justin Osborne writes incredibly smart songs that tackle many of those subjects, and the rest of the band musically matches that introspection. Kansas Bible Company, a psychedelic band with horns, opens the night. BONUS: If you miss Susto on Friday, they'll be back to kick off this season of Second Sunday on Coleman Hill. 10:30 p.m. $5.
Mobile Slim
SATURDAY AT THE LIBRARY BALLROOM
Macon folks sure do love the blues. Wire a Les Paul into a vintage Bassman and folks will come out of the woodwork to get down and soak up the overdriven notes high on the neck. Mobile Slim knows how to pull those notes out of a guitar, and throws in a little bit of soul and funk to boot. They even have a backstory worthy of blues mythology to back it up, including meetings with Jesus, panhandling and the mysterious appearance of tapes by the legend himself, Mobile Slim. 8 p.m. $10 per person, or two for $15.
Back City Woods with the Pollies
SATURDAY AT THE HUMMINGBIRD STAGE AND TAPROOM
Back City Woods combines fiddles, guitars and banjo to write "songs about heartbreak, small towns and all that Southern stuff." They're nostalgic, but they're still searching for the perfect peach cobbler recipe. Their music is rooted in tradition, but it looks to the future, just like Marty McFly. Most of all, it'll make ya wanna stomp those feet. They also have a new record out called "The Light. The Dark. The Dusk." Muscle Shoals/Nashville-based the Pollies will be there to get the party started. This show is also the official Magnolia Soapbox Derby after party. 10:30 p.m. $5.
Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
THURSDAY AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE
Rosanne Cash certainly doesn't need her famous last name to be instantly recognizable to an audience. During the course of 15 albums she's earned four Grammy Awards and nominations for 11 more, had 21 Top-40 hits, including 11 No. 1 singles, was awarded the SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement award for Sound Recordings in 2012 and received the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts. Her 2009 album, "The List," won the Americana Music Album of the Year award. Her latest record, "The River and the Thread," features collaborations with her equally talented husband John Leventhal, and has been a "kaleidoscopic examination of the geographic, emotional, musical and historic landscape of the American South." 7:30 p.m. $45-$61.
This story was originally published April 7, 2016 at 7:18 PM with the headline "Gig Guide ."