Just in case the title alone wasn't a dead give away, Amanda Shires' Down Fell the Doves is not a record for the faint of heart, faith or spirit. Not that anyone who heard her last album would have expected such. Carrying Lighting, the critically acclaimed 2011 breakthrough that put Shires on the map as one of Americana music's most arresting new voices (and Texas Music magazine's 2011 Artist of the Year), was a kudzu-tangled web of frayed heartstrings and combustible desire that revealed the one-time "little fiddle player from Lubbock" to be a grown woman unafraid to "get wrecked in love" and dish out the same with keen poetic insight and unnervingly mature, femme-fatale conviction. But as striking as Lightning was, Down Fell the Doves (Shires' debut for Lightning Rod Records) is where the gloves really come off.

Andrew Combs is a Texas songwriter, guitarist, and singer who lives in Nashville. His brand of country-folk looks back to Guy Clark and Mickey Newbury's heyday in Nashville. Following the success of the self-released 2010 EP, Tennessee Time, Coin Records released the 7-inch "Big Bad Love" in April 2012. While the EP displayed a decidedly Nashville sound, "Big Bad Love" and b-side "Take It From Me" reveal a ballsier side—a folk-rock sound with nods to rough-and-tumble Chicago blues and Planet Waves-era Dylan. Combs' live show was once described as a cross between the stripped-down country-rock of Merle Haggard and the tightly wound garage-punk of Detroit's MC5. They call it country soul swag, and you should too.

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm (event ends at 11:59 pm)
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