About this Event
Refugia Blues, the fifth album from songwriter Nick Shoulders, is a record of big ideas and small, intimate moments.
Rooted in the acoustic stylings of Southern traditional music, it finds the Arkansas native turning off his amp and stepping up to a ribbon microphone as a solo performer, singing in a voice that's equal parts country croon, Appalachian yodel, and high lonesome field holler.
Shoulders' interpretation of American roots music has always been more progressive and punky than the trucks and beers conservatism that passes for modern-day country, and Refugia Blues offers songs about climate collapse, radical anthropology, and generative disruption. It balances the macro with the micro, too, making room for love songs and personal topics, packaging humor alongside heavy insights.
At once academic and accessible, Refugia Blues isn't just a deep dive into southernness, but also into Shoulders himself.
This is a raw, resolute version of American country music, stacked high with songs that go down easy but linger in the minds of those willing to invest the time.
TENNESSEE STIFFLEGS BIO
Where classic twang shakes hands with defiant yet friendly non-country or western influences.
At one moment, between the bite of snappy telecaster turnarounds and fiddle kick-offs, you could easily blur your ears and be somewhere in the late 1950's. Blink your eyes and you may find yourself dripping out of your snap-shirt amidst a full-scale exploratory psychedelic break up that have earned the band such depictions as "Earnest Tubb playing on a flying saucer", "Hank Floyd", boot-gaze" and "out-country swing".
Event venue & nearby stays
Victory North Savannah, 2603 Whitaker Street, Savannah, United States
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