BELLOWS FALLS-Michael Tarbox brings his guitar playing and voice to Stage 33 Live for a 7 p.m. show Saturday, Dec. 6.
Tarbox writes songs anchored in rock 'n' roll, backwater blues, hillbilly music, and country - "rough-hewn, immediate, and hard-won," wrote organizers in a news release. His gospel-tinged electric guitar playing, "tough as Texas barbed wire, brings it all together." Tarbox's songs have been used in the television shows Sons of Anarchy and Supernatural.
"My inspirations are musicians from a world that's vanished. I let them guide me, but my goal is to create something new," Tarbox said in the news release.
Tarbox began his career with The Tarbox Ramblers, a quartet that released albums on the Rounder label and played countless shows throughout the U.S. and Canada. The group featured both Tarbox's songs and his arrangements of old blues and string-band music.
At Tarbox's request, Wojcicki, a four-piece indie rock band, will open. Wojcicki is the musical vehicle for Matt Sharff, a refugee of the late '70s/early '80s New York City punk scene, when he performed at storied venues like CBGB and Max's Kansas City.
Sharff's music "betrays the influences of rock 'n' roll, Americana, punk, and prog rock," said organizers. He's shared stages with Emmylou Harris, The Jayhawks, NRBQ, The Misfits, and Bernie Sanders, among others, and has recorded and performed with Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys), T-Bone Wolk (Hall & Oates), and Buddy Cage (New Riders of the Purple Sage).
Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com.
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