Chuck Mead’s Nashville All-Star Revue

Here’s a bill featuring four masters of country-rock synthesis, which may or may not be serious. Kansas native and longtime Nashvillian Chuck Mead is a pop-roots artist in the line of Nick Lowe — his 2009 full-length Journeyman’s Wager amounts to a Music City-style Stiff Records production for now people, while his 2014 Free State Serenade skillfully reworks the timeless truths of Sun Records. Mead, who has also played in the retro-country band BR549, transcends retro by virtue of his intelligent songwriting and an effortlessly genial tone that the great Lowe might well admire. Meanwhile, country singer Nikki Lane is her own glamorous, self-mocking concept — her command of the visual elements of stardom and its attendant marketing strategies is as impressive as the music on her fine 2017 full-length Highway Queen. Rounding out the bill are Jason and the Scorchers guitarist Warner Hodges — an inventor of ’80s cow punk — and J.D. Wilkes, who plays bent rockabilly with his band, Legendary Shack Shakers. 8 p.m. at City Winery, 609 Lafayette St. EDD HURT