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On Sunday, Have Gun, Will Travel will be outside Amalie Arena to welcome the Tampa Bay Lightning back home for Game 3 of the team’s first round Stanley Cup Playoff series, but on Thursday—just one mile away—the Bay area Americana mainstay headlines downtown Tampa’s long-running monthly free concert series, Rock the Park.

Expect to hear Have Gun’s new single (“Buyer’s Remorse”) in the headlining slot, but bring your boogie shoes because Tampa funk outfit BadCameo is also on the bill and arriving on a “Funk Train” in advance of the band’s forthcoming sophomore album, Friday Night Time Warp, due in August. 

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Rounding out a super solid bill is Tampa rapper Scxtt Aye.

This article appears in Apr 28 – May 4, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...