Band Spotlight

Jason Boland & The Stragglers These guys hail from Stillwater, Okla., and play what has become known as “Red Dirt” country music. The name comes from the color of earth you find in Oklahoma, and the band’s style lives in old-school country with a slight rock edge and excellent lyrical sensibility. With Jason on guitar, […]

Guts Club PHOTO BY DEVIN BREWSTER Lindsay Baker, a former child beauty queen and inventor of incredibly adventurous and artistic videos with songs attached, is Guts Club, all by her lonesome. For a look into the life and times of this gifted and gallant singer and songwriter, check out the YouTube video of “Marine Biologist” […]

A real rock-country music band that’s having chart success while claiming influences from a “hybrid of English rock, country, American rock, soul and blues.” Michael Hobby (lead vocals), Bill Satcher (lead guitar), Zach Brown (guitar, vocals) and Graham Deloach (bass, vocals) hail from South Carolina and came together as a group in 2010. Now based […]

Hot off a Southern California run and in between a southern Missouri romp, the very busy and very talented blues guitarist, singer and bandleader from Chicagoland makes his way to the Illinois Central Blues Club Blue Monday show at The Alamo. RJB is on the move in more ways than geographical tours. His latest CD […]

Based out of Nashville, Tenn., this wandering troubadour keeps mostly on the road. He has a lot to say, mostly about social issues that need to be addressed from the progressive side. Steely James (also known as Jim Stealy) sings songs by some of the great thinkers of our lyrical music, such as Bob Marley, […]

Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones play Oct. 11 at Casey’s Pub-Knights of Columbus as part of Bedrock 66. PHOTO BY JEFF FASANO Starting in the late 70s, brothers Phil Alvin and Dave Alvin started an adventure in American roots music called The Blasters. The band kicked off lifelong adventures for both […]

Here’s a record with a story to tell, not only in the songs recorded but in the recording of the songs. After Brian Zilm finished tracking his latest album in Springfield at Frequincy Recording with owner-operator Quincy Watson, the local singer-songwriter decided to call in a long shot. Zilm had made a social media connection […]

With a carefree and can-do motto of “music frees your mind and boogies your soul” this spirited, six-piece combo makes a debut performance at the Hut on Friday. Nate Cozadd (guitar, vocals) and Casey Cantrall (guitar, vocals), the songwriting, driving force behind the band, have played together as friends and pickers for over ten years. […]