I missed her the last time she came to town, but you can bet I'll make sure to catch Texas-based songstress Izzy Cox (aka the “Murder Ballad Queen”) this time around. Cox croons in a clear, honeyed soprano that slinks and slides against voodoobilly jazz, bouncy Western swing and honky tonkin’ blues. Her songs reflect a perverse sense of humor and feature a colorful cast of hard-bitten women, from a hoodoovoodoo type of girl who likes switchblades and Colt 45, to a mad woman in the Number Nine Ward with voices in her head telling her she’s dead, to “Belle Gunness,” an old folk tune about one of America's most notorious female serial killers.
Thurs., May 28, 9 p.m., The Garage, St. Petersburg, $6.
This article appears in May 20-26, 2009.