BARRY COURTER: Lisa, one of my favorite funny songs is called “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues” by Todd Snider. It’s about a band that moves to Seattle during the grunge era and becomes a national sensation by going onstage and refusing to play a note or sing a word.
There’s a great verse about the band going on MTV’s “Unplugged” and refusing to do “acoustical versions of the electrical songs we had refused to record in the first place.”
Anyway, Snider himself will be at Track 29 on Friday, and as if seeing him wasn’t enough, he’ll be joined by Justin Townes Earle. That’s a great night of music by two great songwriters.
LISA DENTON: This is one of only two stops where Snider and Earle are co-headlining (the other is Saturday at the Ryman in Nashville), so that $20 advance ticket price may be the best bargain of the week.
The show starts at 9 p.m., so you could even catch the Honey Island Swamp Band at Nightfall before heading down Market Street.