CMA Award-winner, Grammy nominee, Top Local Albums Critics' Poll and Country Music Critics' Poll favorite Kacey Musgraves' four upcoming shows at the Mother Church of Country Music are easily among the most-anticipated concerts in Nashville this winter. All the dates sold out without any word on who the opening acts would be — which, to be fair, isn't why you buy a ticket in the first place.
Still, in keeping with the precedent she established with other shows on her world tour behind Golden Hour (and echoing the spirit of other folks like Jason Isbell), Musgraves has a variety of outstanding openers across a spectrum of styles, many of whom have Nashville connections. If you scored seats to any of her nights in Music City, it was a fair bet that you wouldn't want to be late. But as of today, we know the lineup.
* Wednesday, Feb. 27: Liza Anne. Our critics gave high marks to the Belmont University grad's third album Fine But Dying in both our Best of Nashville issue and our Top Local Albums poll. It's an outstanding rock record packed with great songs, like the anti-fake-nice anthem "Small Talks."
Listen/Buy "Fine But Dying": http://smarturl.it/FineButDying
Catch Liza Anne on tour: http://www.lizaannemusic.com
Directed by Josh Gilligan
Styled by Brett Warren
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Lyrics:
I’m frustrated, I think I hate this
I can’t even look interested
I think that the older I get the harder this gets
Maybe I’m fine
Maybe I’m dying
Oh, I’m just tired - tired of trying to hold a conversation together that means nothing at all
Small talk, small talk
We don’t talk enough
Small talk too much Somebody get me out of here
Are we friends? Did I miss it?
Cuz you’re looking at me like we’re connecting
Why should we pick it up, we never left it
I’m too passive aggressive
Maybe it’s mean
Maybe it’s bitter and I don’t wanna go down as a conversation quitter But I just can’t do it
Small talk, small talk
We don’t talk enough
Small talk too much Somebody get me out of here
I used to go out and talk to everyone I’d see
Now when I go out, it’s just keeping me from sleep
I don’t wanna be rude, but I don’t wanna just
Small talk, small talk
We don’t talk enough
Small talk too much Somebody get me out of here
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* Thursday, Feb. 28: Sinclair. The upstate-New York-raised, Nashville-residing singer and multi-instrumentalist has a gift for incisive pop tracks. Check out the disco-kissed love song "Obsession."
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* Friday, March 1: Mountain Man. The member of this trio you're most likely to recognize is Amelia Meath, but this group (also featuring Molly Erin Sarle and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig) goes back a decade, predating Meath's Sylvan Esso. They reconvened in 2017 for some performances, and eventually made Magic Ship, a follow-up to their 2010 album Made the Harbor. The three focus on astonishing and nimble harmony singing, as in "Boat."
Recorded at Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, NC - 10/17/18
Directed by Josh Sliffe
Made by Remedy
MOUNTAIN MAN TOUR DATES
3/16 - Houston, TX - The Heights Theater
3/17 - New Orleans, LA - Preservation Hall
3/18 - New Orleans, LA - Preservation Hall
3/19 - Jackson, MS - Duling Hall
3/21 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn
3/22 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
3/23 - Asheville, NC - Masonic Temple
3/24 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Music Festival
3/27 - Richmond, VA - Richmond Music Hall
3/28 - York, PA - Capitol Theatre
3/29 - Vienna, VA - The Barns at Wolf Trap
7/27 - Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival
Tickets available at http://www.wearemountainman.com
* Saturday, March 2: Natalie Prass and Skyline Motel. Saturday ticketholders get a two-fer. Prass moved to Nashville for the second time in the fall (she'd moved here to study at MTSU and released a couple of outstanding EPs, but returned home to Richmond, Va., just before releasing her self-titled debut LP in 2015), just a few months after releasing her excellent The Future and the Past. Below, check out a rendition of the Future cut "Short Court Style" performed inside an art installation at SXSW 2018.
Natalie Prass turns the laid-back groove of "Short Court Style" into the soft murmurs of late-night devotion.
by Lars Gotrich
A laid-back disco cool and bouncing bassline groove don't make Natalie Prass' recent single "Short Court Style" seem like a natural candidate for quiet reflection — perhaps, instead, a hard-earned frolic betwixt lovers who work hard to make their love work. But then Prass shows up to her South X Lullaby session with keyboardist Jacob Ungerleider, slows down the tempo just a mood lighting dimmer and turns the song's breezy funk into the soft murmurs of late-night devotion.
This version of "Short Court Style" was filmed in an interactive art installation by Caitlin Pickall called FEAST, which is part of the SXSW Art Program and was created as part of the Laboratory Artist Residency program in Spokane, Wash. Prass and Ungerlieder sit at a dinner table set with plates and towers of wine glasses, onto which images and patterns are projected. The projections are triggered by the movements of guests at the table, so the experience changes every time someone sits down.
CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Mito Habe-Evans; Director/Videographer: Nickolai Hammar; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Photo: Aaron Rogosin for NPR; Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey.
The seldom-seen Skyline Motel is an extra-special addition: Phenomenal vocalists Kate York and Sarah Buxton front this band that includes Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, who co-produced Golden Hour with Musgraves. Below, watch a fan-shot video of them performing at The Basement way back in 2012.
Live at the basement
