The White Water Tavern on Friday, August 1. 8 p.m. $15.
Plenty of songwriters think of themselves as poets, but Lee Bains III who hails from Birmingham, Alabama, and has been published in The New Yorker has the credentials to prove it. If placement in the company of the literary elite suggests a stuffiness, though, think again. The Bitter Southerner referred to 2014 s Dereconstructed, the sophomore album by Lee Bains & the Glory Fires (his band), as without a single doubt or qualifier, the most important record to address the Southern thing in 13 years, since Drive-By Truckers 2001 Southern Rock Opera. And it may be the most important record about the South ever released. The band s 2022 album, Old-Time Folks, so captivated the Oxford American with its radical politics that the publication characterized Bains like this: If Jason Isbell could be described as country music s AOC, Bains is its antifa. Get tickets for this solo show at whitewatertavern.com .
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