The rootin’-tootin’, bloozharp-playin’, no-prisoners-takin’ Colonel J.D. Wilkes, the de facto leader of Southern Gothic shitkickers Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, is more than just another in a long line of savvy Southerners who've co-opted their region's artistic outlaw status to serve their own (usually financial) ends. There's no throwing of banana pudding into the crowd, a la Southern Culture on the Skids, and no soft-shoe Squirrel Nut shuck-and-jive, either. What there is here—in spades—is respect for tradition, paired with the knowledge that effing with that same tradition and folklore and making it your own is the shortest path to salvation (or being able to afford supper, as the case may be). O'Death opens.
Tue., Feb. 10, 9 p.m., 2009
