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Mid-November already--
A chill in the morning and evening air, turned back clocks means shorter days and... oh yeah, and the whole election thing- “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”, Pete Townsend once wrote… it is what it is, so buckle up.
Shows are still pretty frequent, though will ramp down as the month ends and holiday season kicks in gear. Country fans will likely love the two arena shows coming this week.
Let’s take look at the Kansas City / Lawrence KS metro musical happenings for the upcoming week, from November 8th-14th.
(ticket hyperlinks are embedded in each show’s headline)
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8
Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band, Nov 8, Liberty Hall-Lawrence, $25-$65
Street Country / Appalachian folk artist Tod has recently released a solo album, and is celebrating with a tour featuring his full band. “I wanted to prove to myself and the industry that I could write an elite country record with ease,” said Lost Dog Street Band frontman Tod in a press release following the release of his first solo album released Oct 18, “Shooting Star.”
“If I didn’t accomplish that goal, I sure as hell came closer than anyone on pop country radio either way.” The self-proclaimed “Proprietor of Misery.”says the album reflects its creator’s transcending into a life of gratitude, patience, and stability.
“People evolve and change. You’re growing as a person,” Tod said. “If you want to get healthier, you have to start intentionally behaving like a healthy person. You have to look around you and adapt to those things — if you don’t change your identity, it’s hard to change yourself.”
Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Nov 8, Ameristar Casino, $35-$50
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils continue their farewell tour, "When It Shines," and are making another area stop, this time in North Kansas City.
“The Ozark Mountain Daredevils are a seminal American rock band renowned for their distinctive fusion of country, rock, and pop music. Formed in the early ‘70s, they are best known for their chart-topping hit singles ‘If You Wanna Get To Heaven’ and ‘Jackie Blue.’
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9
EKOH, Nov. 9, Bottleneck-Lawrence, $23-$25
The Las Vegas rapper plays his brand of “Heart Hop” meaning emotional lyrics along with hard-hitting delivery, intricate production, and a high energy live show. Blending hip hop with alt rock and everything in-between, Ekoh has an appealing sound that crosses genres.
Ekoh has performed with multiple acts and earlier this summer, collaborated with KC’s own Tech N9ne on the track, “Nobody like Me”. “My music is about embracing real life: the struggle, the good times, the frustration, the anger, the heartache. It’s all real because its all true. I have felt and experienced it all.”
Reverend Horton Heat w Jason D Williams, Nov 9, Knuckleheads, $30
Two retro sound longtime touring legends combine forces for an outing of each act’s electrifying blend of rock ‘n’ roll, honky-tonk and boogie-woogie for a dynamic musical experience.
Texas-native Reverend Horton Heat has been a country-blues-rock mainstay for 30+ years with 12 full-length albums, three “best of” collections, two DVD releases and thousands of live performances. Last year’s “Roots of The Rev, Vol 1” his 12th studio outing (not counting his 2005 Christmas album “We Three Kings”), finds the Dallas native and longtime friend/stand-up bass player Jimbo Wallace doing a creative flex on a dozen covers.
Jason D. Williams has spent a lifetime as a wild man onstage with influences like Jerry Lee Lewis, Moon Mullican and more. Behind the piano, he connects with country and rock ‘n’ roll greats while creating a persona that’s 100 percent original. Williams left his hometown of El Dorado, AR, at the age of 16 and has since contributed to the rock history of Memphis and recorded for RCA and Sun Records in the 1980s and 1990s, and he returned to the recording fold in 2010. He also performed all of the hand shots of the movie “Great Balls of Fire,” among several other television appearances.
Thundergong Benefit show, Nov 9, Uptown, (sold out)
It’s time again for the annual benefit concert for Steps of Faith Foundation, featuring numerous big stars and most of KC’s beloved actors, comedians, and personalities. Those scheduled to appear include Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, Flavor Flav, Brendan Hunt, Weird Al, and many more.
THUNDERGONG! is a night of unforgettable musical performances and loads of laughs as we come together to help uninsured and underinsured amputees get the prosthetic limbs they need – restoring mobility and restoring possibilities. Steps of Faith Foundation reconnects amputees to their communities, families, and workforces by relieving the financial burden of prosthetic care.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10
Sebastian Bach, Nov 10, Knuckleheads, $30.50-$43.50
The former Skid Row singer is out on his Fall 2024 North American Tour. Baz said: "Looking forward to seeing you all Bach on the road! We will give you a 100% LIVE rock 'n' roll show no tapes no fakes all real all the time 'cuz that's the only way we know how to do it! Come and see a real rock 'n' roll show while it still exists!"
He added: "The new album 'Child Within The Man' is the rock 'n' roll gift that keeps on giving! We are so excited to take this music across Canada and the USA this fall 2024! In addition to songs from the new record, we will also be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the first record 'Skid Row' 1989 - 2024!"
MONDAY NOVEMBER 11
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Nov 11, Liberty Hall-Lawrence, $35-$50
Canada’s and maybe rock’s greatest dark instrumental band is on the road on a tour named Godspeed You! Black Emperor on American Highway Beneath Setting Suns Thru the Liberation Autumn of '24 in support of their latest album, the transcendent No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead.
The title, which refers to the reported number of Palestinian deaths by Israeli strikes between 7 October 2023 and 13 February 2024 during the ongoing Israel / Hamas War, was accompanied by a semi-cryptic statement in which the band addressed the title and the role of art in such trying times: "No Title = What gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? What context? What broken melody? And then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile."
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12
Cold War Kids, Nov 12, The Truman,$32-$64
The Long Beach, CA alt rock band has hit the road again for their More 20 Years Tour with support from Husbands. We caught them live last summer, supporting Tears for Fears in Kansas City.
The groups recent EP was released on April 26th. The lead single, “Heaven In Your Hands,” is available on all streaming platforms. Recent singles “Run Away With Me” and “Blame” were singles from their self-titled album, released last year.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13
Jelly Roll w Shaboozey and Allie Colleen, Nov 13, T-Mobile Center, $34.50-$184.50
Jelly Roll’s 2024 “Beautifully Broken Tour” is coming to town after a whirlwind year of success after success. He’s become much more known in recent years for his country-infused songs and is supporting his latest album, “Beautifully Broken”, which features collaborations with Ilsey, Wiz Khalifa, and Machine Gun Kelly.
Aka Jason Bradley DeFord, began his music career in 2003 in hip hop after being inspired by rappers such as Three 6 Mafia, UGK, and 8Ball & MJG and sold mixtapes out of his car of his first project "The Plain Shmear Tape". His real rise to fame happened in 2022 with the release of his two hit singles "Son of a Sinner" and "Need a Favor".
The following year at the CMT Awards, he won Male Video of the Year, Male Breakthrough Video of the Year, and Digital-First Performance of the Year, all for the song "Son of a Sinner".
Jelly Roll released his album Whitsitt Chapel, featuring the single "Need a Favor" in June 2023. In November of that same year he won the award for New Artist of the Year at the 57th Annual Country Music Association Awards. We caught opener Shaboozey just a few months ago live in Lawrence.
Straight No Chaser, Nov 13, Lied Center-Lawrence, $21-$55
The a Cappella sensations are bringing their Top Shelf Tour to the Lied Center of Kansas, featuring holiday favorites and re-imagined songs from throughout the decades.
They have emerged with a massive fanbase and a long list of accomplishments, including 2 RIAA Gold Certified albums, over 1.5 million concert tickets sold, over 1 billion streams on Pandora and over 2 million albums sold worldwide. Straight No Chaser is the captivating sound of nine unadulterated human voices coming together to make extraordinary music that is moving people in a fundamental sense… and with a sense of humor!
David Shaw (Revivalists) w Crow Boys, Nov 13, MOVED to Encore at Uptown, $30
The singer-songwriter and The Revivalists frontman has released his second solo album, Take a Look Inside, via his own Yokoko Records featuring lead video “When You Love Somebody” directed by Texas-based graphic and motion designer Andrew Knives. The album’s arrival was preceded by the release of three singles including the above, the optimistic “Arms of the River”,and the intensely personal title track, “Take a Look Inside“.
Album track “Alabama” is Shaw’s response to the ongoing battle against women’s reproductive rights as well as this spring’s Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created during IVF fertility treatments should be considered children. The singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist spent much of the past few years writing and recording the album in bursts of inspiration amid his busy schedule—not only as frontman of The Revivalists but also as a new husband and dad.
“It’s easy to run for your entire life,” Shaw said. “As you get older, there are always emotions and thoughts you don’t want to touch. Much of Take a Look Inside was about sitting down for even five minutes and asking, ‘What is this feeling? Why is it being brought up now?’ I chose to face these feelings, ask what they needed, and use them”.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14
Little Big Town and Sugarland, Nov 14, T-Mobile Center, $29.50-$399.50
Country duo Sugarland (Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush) will reunite on the road this year with Little Big Town headlining on their 2024 Take Me Home Tour (named after their remake of the 80’s Phil Collins hit) with support from The Castellows.
It is the first new music to come from Little Big Town since their 2020 album, Nightfall, featuring “The Daughters,” “Over Drinking,” and “Wine, Beer, Whiskey.” Sugarland’s last album was released in 2018 titled Bigger which featured the fan-favorite track, “Babe.”
“When we toured with Sugarland last, we would all be backstage harmonizing different cover songs to try and surprise the audience every night. There’s something about this song that feels so nostalgic of that time. It really is like coming home,” says Little Big Town in a press statement.
“The Take Me Home tour feels like a celebration of being a band for 25 years and we’re so excited to throw this party with our great friends Sugarland. We’ll both be playing all our biggest hits and then some. Can’t wait to see everyone!”
National Touring act coming to Kansas City, Lawrence, KS, Topeka, KS, or vicinity? Let us know so we can spotlight the appearance-email [email protected]
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