Concerts: Toby Keith, Mary J. Blige, My Morning Jacket, Loretta Lynn
Concerts: Toby Keith, Mary J. Blige, My Morning Jacket, Loretta Lynn
Aug 24
Add Brantley Gilbert to a list of chart-topping nation strain stars from Georgia. The Jefferson internal scored dual No. 1 hits final year and he’ll be opening to Toby Keith during Aaron’s Amphitheatre during Lakewood on Friday, Aug. 24. Photo pleasantness Big Machine Label Group
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Toby Keith, Brantley Gilbert
The two-time Academy of Country Music hostess of a year Keith creates catchy, unapologetically nation strain that still appeals to a cocktail audience. It’s a tough balancing act, though he’s managed well. He has copiousness of talent, and he gives people what they want. He scored his 29th No. 1 nation singular in 2011 with “Made in America,” a initial lane expelled from a manuscript “Clancy’s Tavern.” That album’s second single, “Red Solo Cup,” became his top charting singular on a all-genre Top 40 cocktail chart, climbing to No. 15. Gilbert, from a Jackson County chair of Jefferson, creates easy work of a mix that eludes many mainstream nation artists. His matrimony of nation and Southern stone rings loyal given he hasn’t knocked all a mud off of his farming roots. His second album, “Halfway to Heaven,” contains dual No. 1 singles with “Country Must Be Country Wide” and “You Don’t Know Her Like we Do.”
7 p.m. Aug. 24. $19.75-$69.75. Aaron’s Amphitheatre during Lakewood, 2002 Lakewood Ave. S.E., Atlanta. 404-443-5090.
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Loretta Lynn
Along with George Jones, Lynn is a vital essence of all that is good and good about nation music. There should be no perplexity about regulating a word fable when this groundbreaking thespian and songwriter is a subject. Her early recordings still send shivers down a spine as she sings those hardscrabble songs with a gusto as brave and clever as a plateau that fostered it. See our talk with a remarkably vehement star. Atlanta thespian and songwriter Sonia Leigh, who opens a show, has been a industrious musician on a internal theatre for many years, and now she’s removing beheld on a inhabitant scale. Thanks to her longtime organisation with a Zac Brown Band, she’s now sealed to Brown’s Southern Ground record label.
8 p.m. Aug. 24. $25-$55. Chastain Park Amphitheatre, 4469 Stella Drive, Atlanta. 404-733-4900.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
The country-folk tunesmith’s latest album, a Jun recover “Ashes and Roses,” is among a many personal in a prolonged line of finely crafted albums she’s expelled in a 25 years given her debut, “Hometown Girl.” The strain “What to Keep and What to Throw Away,” for example, is “a moment-by-moment replay of carrying to purify out my former spouse’s things from my house,” she told Billboard. Carpenter has postulated a turn of still luminosity that seems so free nonetheless gets ignored all too often.
8 p.m. Aug. 24. $49.50. Atlanta Botanical Garden, 1345 Piedmont Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-876-5859.
The fabulously decorated Big Freedia is behind in city this weekend for a opening during Terminal West. Photo pleasantness a Windish Agency
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Big Freedia
Bounce strain is a admirably New Orleans-based character of hip-hop. It’s an upbeat, chant-heavy and really sexualized take on swat that’s spawned an unusual, gender-bending sub-genre infrequently called weakling swat (or weakling bounce). Hip-hop is a genre that’s mostly criticized for homophobia, so weakling rebound is a startling development, though it’s been an subterraneous materialisation for a while now. The decorated Big Freedia, aka a “Queen Diva” of bounce, expelled a entrance manuscript “An Ha, Oh Yeah” behind in 1999. Freedia is one of a genre’s best famous ambassadors, carrying taken a character to radio progressing this year on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” with “Excuse,” a lane powered by speaker-rattling drum and Freedia’s rapid-fire patter. For we fans of HBO’s “True Blood,” suppose Lafayette as a rapper, and Big Freedia is what you’d get.
9 p.m. Aug. 24. $15. Terminal West, 887 W. Marietta St. N.W., Atlanta.
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My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses
Kentucky quintet My Morning Jacket’s sound has developed over a years, demonstrating an rejection to sojourn in one place for really long. The reverb-drenched mist of a early years has given approach to cocktail adventuring and an scrutiny of a influences — from Prince to Neil Young — that march by a band’s work. Formerly formed in Seattle, a acclaimed Band of Horses returned to a internal South Carolina before releasing 2007’s “Cease to Begin.” Frontman Ben Bridwell has crafted a shimmering mix of Neil Young and symphonic indie stone condemned by his Southern roots. Album No. 4, “Mirage Rock,” is set for Sep release.
7 p.m. Aug. 24. $37-$49.50. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 2200 Encore Parkway, Alpharetta. 404-733-5010.
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Nophest
If we wish to know what Atlanta’s subterraneous strain theatre sounds like, we won’t find a improved place and time. At Nophest, we can hear 80 bands in one weekend. This eccentric internal strain festival, now in a sixth year, takes place in several East Atlanta venues.
8:30 p.m. Aug. 24; 2 p.m. Aug. 25 and 26. One day pass, $7.50; weekend pass, $15. 529, 529 Flat Shoals Ave. S.E., Atlanta. 404-228-6769.
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B.B. King, Tedeschi Trucks Band
He’ll be 87 in a few weeks, so it’s no warn that blues fable King does his shows seated core stage. While many musicians would have been late for a integrate of decades, King keeps adult a perfectionist furloughed report that even includes a integrate of dates in Brazil in October. Critically acclaimed blues-rock guitarist and thespian Susan Tedeschi is a four-time Grammy nominee. Derek Trucks, guitarist for a Allman Brothers, also happens to be Tedeschi’s husband. The span put their possess bands on interregnum final year and assimilated together for this new project. The rope expelled a second album, a two-disc live set “Everybody’s Talkin’,” in June. Check out our talk with Trucks.
7 p.m. Aug. 26. $45-$55; $35 lawn. Chastain Park Amphitheatre, 4469 Stella Drive N.W., Atlanta. 404-733-5012.
Mary J. Blige headlines during Chastain Park Amphitheatre Tuesday, Aug. 28. She’ll be assimilated by a re-emerging D’Angelo and rising star Melanie Fiona. Photo: Getty Images
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Mary J. Blige, D’Angelo
Queen of hip-hop essence Blige wipes a building with many of a lip-syncing obtuse low-pitched mortals populating a charts these days. It’s been some-more than 12 years given his many new album, “Voodoo,” though D’Angelo is solemnly re-emerging, carrying done a warn coming during a Bonnaroo Music Festival in June. Rumors of a new recover with a operative pretension “James River” have been drifting given 2009. With his live appearances increasing, maybe 2012 is a year we’ll finally get some new music. With Melanie Fiona.
7 p.m. Aug. 28. $55.75-$125.75. Chastain Park Amphitheatre, 4469 Stella Drive N.W., Atlanta. 404-733-5012.
Shane Harrison, sharrison@ajc.com
