Charles Walston, who plays The Hub in Tampa, Florida on March 15, 2025. Credit: Photo via charleswalsto/Bandcamp

Don’t expect to cut any onions at the gig, but one of Atlanta’s OG purveyors of ‘90s alt-country is playing a no-cover dive bar show.

Together with his Vidalias bandmates, Charles Walston cooked up a satisfying brand of rock that married rockabilly to the blues and even swing. Now based in St. Petersburg, Walston still goes hard—just listen to 2023’s Before I Call it a Day, where he went back to the Peach State and worked with Jonny Daly (plus a handful of Atlanta friends Spencer L Kirkpatrick, Paul Barrie, Phil Skipper, and Martin Kearns) to record nine tracks of Southern-fried, groove-heavy tunes just waiting to be played loud in the barroom.

There’s no cover to see Charles Walston play The Hub in Tampa on Saturday, March 15.

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This article appears in Mar 13-19, 2025.