Founded in 2022 by students at Rhodes College in Memphis, Crooked Diehl is a blues-rock quartet whose name is a play on the last name of one of the college’s early presidents. Based in Nashville since May, the band — vocalist-guitarist Jaid Joice, lead guitarist Zach Jennings, bassist Malcolm Bryan and drummer Jake Sanders — will conclude a quick three-city tour with a performance Sunday evening at Nashville’s The Underdog. They will kick off their run in the Bluff City on Friday evening. “We’re calling this the Tri-County Tour because we’re going from Memphis to Jackson up to Nashville,” Sanders tells the Scene. They will share the bill on all three shows with Memphis-based Massey Lane and Jackson-based Music by KOTA. While Crooked Diehl will play a few tunes from their 2024 LP The First One and their 2025 EP Tri-County Special, Sanders says they primarily will perform new material that will appear on their next release. “We have five new tunes that we’ve been working on that we’re super stoked about,” he says. “We’re planning to go into the studio sometime in the next couple of months.”
7 p.m. at The Underdog
3208 Gallatin Pike
