The Weekend In Music is Full Of Banjos (3/7 - 3/10)

Hello, Memphis music lovers. If you'd like to get out and patronize "the scene," well, this is a good weekend for it.

Start tonight at The Blind Bear for MOTEL MIRRORS. "I don't know Motel Mirrors," you say. Well, you know Amy LaVere and John Paul Keith, probably, and it's a collaboration between Amy, John Paul and Shawn Zorn. 10 PM.

Then tomorrow night at the Poplar Lounge, it's GLOSSARY. Opener is KAIT LAWSON. If you don't know Glossary, they're from Murfreesboro, they share a member with Lucero and they're awesome. Check it out:


Next up, and this is the one I'm most stoked about, is Saturday night at the Young Avenue Deli with THE BLACK LILLIES. They're from Knoxville, and they're making some of the best indie Americana/country I've heard in quite a while. Seriously, if you like REALLY good country/bluegrass/Americana, you need to park your ass at the Deli on Saturday night and just stay there.



And if you're not done with the whole country/Americana/bluegrass thing on Saturday night, go do it again on Sunday night at Newby's with SPIRIT FAMILY REUNION. Here they are doing one of NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, which, if you're not familiar, are about the coolest thing ever. If between Saturday and Sunday nights you're not stomping feet, well, you have no soul.



And as always, if you want to check out all the coolest stuff you've never heard that's coming to Memphis in the next month, subscribe to the Spotify playlist up there on the right. It's constantly updating with all the Effin' Memphis picks for the best live shows in a 100 mile radius of Memphis over the next month or so.

ENJOY! There some Real Music going on this weekend and you'd be silly to miss it.