BLUE MOUNTAIN

9 p.m., Sticky Fingerz. $10.

 

Where, oh where, have all the first-generation roots rockers gone?
Uncle Tupelo? Long gone. Wilco? Surely you haven’t been asleep that
long. Jayhawks? Splitsville. Even Jay Farrar, long the torchbearer for
dusty-road anthems, is putting horns and beeps and glitches in new Son
Volt material. For those still lamenting the end of No Depression — the
magazine and the genre — a flicker of light: Blue Mountain is back
together. After six years apart, the seminal Oxford, Miss., act
launched a tour last year (it included a Little Rock date) to see if
reuniting would take. There were reasons to think it might be
contentious. Lead singer Cary Hudson and bassist Laurie Stirratt
essentially got married on the road and then divorced on the road, and
drummer Matt Brennan had retired from music. But so far, it’s been
smooth sailing. So smooth, in fact, that Blue Mountain has recorded a
new album, to be released in July. Local roots outfit the Good Time
Ramblers, which includes most of the members of the Munks, opens the
show.

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