A promotional press photograph by Shelby Merry showing country musician Nick Shoulders. Captured in a centered medium shot in an open grassy field, country artist Nick Shoulders stands smiling while holding a fiddle and bow tucked under his chin. He wears a wide-brimmed straw hat with a chin strap, a short-sleeved light-tan button-down work shirt showing prominent sleeve tattoos on his forearms, and a dark mustache, set against a background of dry winter grass, bare trees, and a wooden post fence under soft, clear daylight.
Nick Shoulders Credit: Shelby Merry / Nick Shoulders EPK

Tampa gets a dose of shithole country this weekend thanks to Nick Shoulders.

The mustachioed Arkansan songwriter released his fifth studio LP Refugia Blues almost a year ago and continues to support the rootsy collection of Americana that addresses the social issues prevalent in past releases (Home On The Rage, All Bad) while bringing the 37-year-old back to his solo roots (before the arrival of his ace band, Okay Crawdad).

U.K. folkie Leonie Evans, whose 2016 covers LP Time Capsule Of Songs From Nola is a dose of Southern hospitality, opens the show.

Tickets to see Nick Shoulders and Leonie Evans at Orpheum in Tampa on Sunday, Nov. 1 are still available and start at $28.69.

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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...