Note: Due to this week's winter storm, the Million Dollar Emperors show has been postponed to an undetermined date.
Nashville’s newest rock supergroup Million Dollar Emperors will celebrate the release of their debut album Thursday night with a show in The Lounge at Eastside Bowl. Released to digital platforms on Jan. 17, the eponymous full-length features 10 tracks that hit a sweet spot between classic British rock of the 1970s and Southern rock of the same era. The group features five veterans of the Nashville rock scene — Joe Blanton (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica), Tim Carroll (lead guitar, vocals), Robert Logue (bass), Seth Timbs (keyboards, vocals) and Jonathan Bright (drums, vocals) — and their experience is evident in the accomplished songwriting and tight performances on the album. The band came together after Logue took Blanton to check out one of Carroll’s weekly Rock ’n’ Roll Happy Hour shows at The 5 Spot. Soon thereafter, Blanton and Carroll got together for a writing session, which resulted in “Sidetracked,” one of the standout cuts on the album. Recognizing they were onto something, Blanton, Logue and Carroll enlisted Bright and Timbs to round out the lineup, and the Million Dollar Emperors were born. While Blanton is the primary lyricist, every member of the band has at least one songwriting credit on the album. According to Blanton, MDE plans to play the entire album at Thursday’s show.
8 p.m. at The Lounge at Eastside Bowl on a date to be determined
1508A Gallatin Pike S., Madison
