Top Five Shows to See This Weekend

By Phoenix New Times Staff Fri., Oct. 12 2012 at 3:00 AM

Categories: This Weekend

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Bob Corritore and Tail Dragger are scheduled to perform Friday, October 12, and Saturday, October 13, at the Rhythm Room.

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun?

Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Unable to get out of town and head to the massive Apache Lake Music Festival this weekend? Don't worry, there' still plenty happening here in town.

Friday, October 12: Shelby Lynne @ Musical Instrument Museum

Although she now lives and records in the California desert, Shelby Lynne's soul and her extraordinary, soulful music are inextricably tied to the Deep South of her childhood and the music--classic country, blues, gospel, but above all Memphis R&B--she absorbed there. Freed from the Nashville commercial aspirations that entwined her early career, Lynne issued a string of albums remarkable for the raw intimacy of her lyrics and a gorgeous voice that can drip with sultry insouciance or draw taut with sinewy anguish.

The latter surfaces with howling angst on "Woebegone," a gospel-rock stomper (that alone should warrant an invitation from Garrison Keillor) at the center of her new album, Revelation Road. Lynne calls the new record her most personal and private.

It's about her family, whose history is steeped in tragedy, and the songs attempt to purge her residual devastation. So it's little wonder she did it all herself, producing and playing every instrument. Stylistically she ranges from the bluegrass-tinged title track to Dusty-in-Memphis pop-soul laments like "I Don't Need a Reason to Cry." Like the album, her performance will be a solo tour de force. -- Rick Mason