Nashville keyboardist, singer and songwriter Steve Conn’s 2018 track “Famous” takes a look at the big world of fame that exists outside Nashville. “Famous” finds Conn musing about his legacy, and he imagines a world in which he’s honored with a PBS special and a specially endowed chair at Louisiana State University. Conn was born in Pineville, La., and moved to Nashville in 1993 after making his bones as a session musician in California. He’s a fine keyboardist whose style evokes everyone from Allen Toussaint to Randy Newman, and Conn’s songwriting often works in the territory favored by Newman and Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. His 2018 album Flesh and Bone bears comparison to both Newman and Steely Dan, and you’ll appreciate his harmonic sophistication on the record’s “You Don’t Know,” which is about barely making it in a world that doesn’t care. Flesh and Bone sports the work of great Nashville players like drummer Bryan Owings and bassist Ron Eoff. Friday at Fox & Locke, Conn brings along guitarist Joe Davies, drummer Jack Bruno and bassist Mike Joyce. Conn has also released some of his father Vertis Roy “Peanut” Conn’s recordings on a compilation titled Tell My Baby That I Love Her, which includes a live radio show from the early 1950s.
8 p.m. at Fox & Locke
4142 Old Hillsboro Road, Franklin
