Phonogenics 101: Blonde on Blonde If you were at Dolly Parton’s recent Tampa show, you could’ve looked up towards Amalie Arena’s Verizon loft and caught a glimpse of Jeremy Gloff with about 20 of his friends, new and old, singing the night away. The outspoken, über-posi Tampa songwriter has a way of of collecting comrades, and he does it again for his ongoing Phonogenics 101 music discussion series. On the table this time is Blonde on Blonde, the 1961 classic for which everybody’s favorite Nobel Prize winner ditched garage rock for a double LP of folk that dips its legs into country and blues. Bob Dylan wasn’t scared to get some brass and organ to accompany the witty wordplay on this album, and you shouldn’t be afraid to talk your way through one of history’s most important records. (The Disco Dolls Studio, Tampa) INFO

Andy Brey & Friends: A holiday BBqustic Tradition We’ve said it once, and we’ll say it again. Geologists rock, and Andy Brey continues to prove that with a set at one of our favorite venues. We’ll have our bibs on tonight as New World slings their famous smoked ‘cue while Brey & friends sling the twangy Americana we’ve come to expect from him. (New World Brewery, Ybor City) INFO

TC Carr & the Bolts of Blue He’s a regular at this St. Pete listening room, but TC Carr is also a regular on our Best of the Bay reader’s polls, so blues fans looking for a hump day fix can stop their search now. (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO

ALSO PLAYING

Wax Wednesdays (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO

Da Cypher Hip Hop League Draft (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO

This article appears in Dec 15-22, 2016.

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...