A few very different shows happening on this Tue., Jan. 27. Take a look below.
Merle Haggard This year, country and Western music legend Haggard – the septuagenarian who helped further the roughly-hewn Fender guitar-twanged honky-tonk-influenced “Bakersfield sound” in the 1960s – celebrates five decades of music with his longtime band The Strangers. They’ll be drawing from Haggard’s vast repertoire, which encompasses 39 Number One hits – “Workin’ Man Blues,” “The Bottle Let Me Down” and “Okie From Muskogee” among them. (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg)
Alestorm with The Dread Crew Of Oddwood, Rainbowdragoneyes I bet you’ve never heard of ‘pirate-core’ before – and if you have, Scottish metal quintet Alestorm was likely involved. (They’ve also styled their power and folk-metal fused sounds as “true Scottish pirate metal.”) Alestorm’s preferred subject matter, as the name implies, is all related to those criminal swashbucklers of the sea ala 2014 fourth album Sunset on the Golden Age, which includes cuts like “Walk the Plank” “Surf Squid Warfare” and “Treasures from Hell.” (Orpheum, Ybor City)
ALSO TONIGHT
Trae Pierce and the T-Stone Band Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa
Cruel Hand w/Angel Du$t/The Beautiful Ones/Frameworks Epic Problem, Tampa
More concerts here.
This article appears in Jan 22-28, 2015.