Have Gun, Will Travel, which plays Ella's Americana Folk Art Café in Tampa, Florida on January 1, 2018. Credit: Brian Mahar

Have Gun, Will Travel, which plays Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café in Tampa, Florida on January 1, 2018. Credit: Brian Mahar

✔️ = Critic's Pick

✔️ Have Gun, Will Travel w/Band of Sorrows Ella’s Soul Food Sunday on a Monday? After a night of drinking? Soundtracked by Bay area Americana giants Have Gun, Will Travel and fast-rising outlaw Americana group Band of Sorrows? Yes, yes, and hell yes. Guest bartenders from the Bourbon Barber will be mixing up some brown drink to help you recover, but we’re sure there will be bloody Mary’s on deck, too. (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa) INFO

DJ Blenda The Heights' new, hip spot to brunch-a-roo is welcoming one of Tampa's longest running purveyors of all tings funky to spin wax as vendors sling specials (and leftover champagne?) to help you ease into those unrealistic resolutions. (The Hall on Franklin, Tampa) INFO

This article appears in Dec 28, 2017 – Jan 4, 2018.

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...