Some 25 years ago, Jimmy Hall started a hot blues-rock band called the Prisoners of Love. It wasn’t his first one, of course: He’d already churned out plenty of criminally underappreciated Southern boogie with Wet Willie in the ‘70s. But it was a first for him in Nashville, after he’d moved up from Macon, Ga. in the early ‘80s. The lineup featured Hall on lead vocals and harp, Kenny Greenberg on guitar, Tommy Wells on drums and Michael Joyce on bass—that is, until Greenberg was stolen away by other gigs. Just this year he rejoined the band, and this will be their second show with everybody back together. The Prisoners have added to their older material songs from Hall’s 2007 Eddie Hinton tribute, Build Your Own Fire—and by popular request, they always play their version of Albert King’s “Crosscut Saw” while lying down on stage. Except Wells, of course.
Fri., Oct. 30, 7 p.m., 2009
Fri., Oct. 30, 7 p.m., 2009
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