If you go
› What: TJG & The 423s with Slim Pickins and Tone Harm.› When: 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6.› Where: Revelry Room, 41 E. 14th St.› Admission: $10.› Phone: 423-521-2929.› Website: revelryroom.co.
If you were to distill Chattanooga’s music scene into a single, Frankenstein-like amalgamation of different groups and styles, it would look and sound something like TJ Greever’s new project, TJG & The 423s.
Greever has served as the wild-haired, exuberant frontman of a slew of Scenic City bands in the past 20 years, including Up With the Joneses, Glowing Bordis and revolving-door tribute ensemble The Communicators. Drawing on that body of experience and his network of connections around town, Greever’s latest project is an eight-member – sometimes nine-member – ensemble with ties to a who’s who of local bands, including Decibella, Endelouz, The Iscariots, Nim Nims, Slim Pickins and Danimal Planet.
Formed in March, the 423s are a jangly, jovial troupe whose performances see fiddles and banjos rubbing strings alongside trumpets and saxophones to hip-hop production and the woeful electrified lament of a pedal steel.
“To me, it comes off sounding like a Southern rock-bluegrass-mariachi band, if that’s even a thing,” Greever laughs.