The Philadelphia band Friendship — featuring guitarist Peter Gill, percussionist Michael Cormier-O’Leary, bassist Jon Samuels and lead vocalist Dan Wriggins — is embarking on a winter tour of the South, with a special double stop in Nashville. The four-piece is touring in support of their fifth full-length album Caveman Wakes Up, released in May of last year by Merge Records. Sonically and thematically, this LP is both a continuation and an expansion of the band’s past repertoire, a rough-around-the-edges blur of country and folk music. Using objects and moments that the casual observer might consider forgettable — hanging out on a stoop, griping over an unlikable roommate, crying over a video about first lady Betty Ford — Wriggins’ keen lyricism assembles a portrait of working-class life in Pennsylvania that is simultaneously melancholic and reverent. Friendship will spend Saturday afternoon at Grimey’s, with a free live performance and album signing starting at 4:30. They’ll then head over to Springwater Supper Club and Lounge, where they’ll be joined by local act Styrofoam Winos and Texan singer-songwriter Natalie Jane Hill. In lieu of normal ticketing, the Springwater performance will be first-come, first-served for the first 100 patrons, with the show starting at 8 p.m.
4:30 p.m. at Grimey’s (1060 E. Trinity Lane); 8 p.m. at Springwater (115 27th Ave. N.)
