IF YOU GOWhat: Yarn at Riverfront Nights.When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday.Where: Chattanooga Green at Ross’s Landing.Admission: Free.Phone: 756-2211.Website: www.riverfrontnights.com.THE OPENERSteel String Session plays “cosmic rockin’ blues boogie grass.” Members are Lisa Jacobi (vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, upright bass, composer), Pete Dasher (vocals, resonator guitar), Jarrod “JRod” Payne (vocals, banjo, guitar, composer), Denny Mixon (vocals, upright bass, guitar, composer) and John Ferguson (vocals, rockabilly guitar, fiddle, composer). Their website is www.steelstringsession.com.
What you hear isn’t always what you get.
Take the music of Yarn, for example.
Lyrics like, “I hope you’re broken baby, I hope you’re beat down, I hope your pain is here to stay,” might conjure up a pretty bitter songwriter, but Yarn frontman Blake Christiana swears he wasn’t directing the band’s anthem “Down on Your Luck” toward anyone in particular.
“I couldn’t pinpoint when I felt like that, but I know I’ve had that feeling before,” he said. “That feeling is familiar, that ‘I’m not going to be here for you anymore’ stuff. That gets to people.”