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SUMMARY:Country Honk The Stars & Steel Tour wsg/Angela Perley - Sportsmens
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nCountry Honk The Stars & Steel Tour \nwsg/Angela Perley \nFriday\, May 29\, 2026 6pm Doors\, 8pm Showtime \n$15ad(+online fee)\, $20 at the door \n \n 
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/country-honk-the-stars-steel-tour-wsg-angela-perley-sportsmens/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Tavern\, 326 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Sportsmens,Sportsmens,Stages
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SUMMARY:Run Katie Run - The Cave
DESCRIPTION:The Cave presents \nRun Katie Run \nSunday\, May 31\, 2026 3pm Doors\, 4pm Showtime \n$15.00 + Online Fee \n \n  \n \n  \nRun Katie Run is a high-energy roots-rock and Americana outfit known for their soaring harmonies\, driving rhythms\, and raw\, honest storytelling. Fronted by a powerhouse vocal presence and backed by a tight-knit group of musicians\, the band has built a reputation for live performances that feel both like a massive celebration and an intimate conversation.Blending the grit of classic rock with the polished sensibilities of modern folk-pop\, Run Katie Run creates a sound that is uniquely their own—one that refuses to be boxed into a single genre. Their latest studio effort\, Red Handed\, marks a bold evolution for the band. The album dives deep into the complexities of human connection\, the weight of secrets\, and the liberation of the truth. Featuring the band’s signature multi-part harmonies and a more expansive sonic palette\, Red Handed captures the energy of their live show while pushing their songwriting into new\, vulnerable territory. Beyond the stage and the studio\, the band has invited fans into their inner circle with their new YouTube series\, My Best Friends’ House. Part musical session\, part behind-the-scenes documentary\, the series captures the band in their most natural element—collaborating\, laughing\, and performing stripped-down versions of their tracks in a cozy\, living-room setting. It’s a testament to the genuine friendship that fuels the music and a gift to fans who want to see the creative process unfold in real-time. Whether they are headlining festivals or filming in a living room\, Run Katie Run remains committed to one thing: making music that moves people.
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/run-katie-run-the-cave/
LOCATION:The Cave\, 71 Military Road\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Country,Genre,Stages,The Cave
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SUMMARY:JAMES McMURTRY & The MARTIAL LAW REVIEW - Sportsmens Park
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nJAMES McMURTRY & The MARTIAL LAW REVIEW \nwsg/ BettySoo \nFriday\, June 26\, 2026 $30.00 + Online fee \n5pm Doors\, 7pm Showtime Rain or shine \n \n \nJames McMurtry \nThe Black Dog & the Wandering Boy \nA Lone Star sheriff hunts quail on horseback and keeps a secret second family. A\nmechanic lies among the spare parts on the floor of his garage and wonders if he can\nafford to keep his girlfriend. A troubled man sees hallucinations of a black dog and a\nwandering boy and hums “Weird Al” songs in his head. These are some of the strange\nand richly drawn characters who inhabit James McMurtry’s eleventh album\, The Black\nDog & the Wandering Boy. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller\, he teases\nvivid worlds out of small details\, setting them to arrangements that have the elements of\nAmericana—rolling guitars\, barroom harmonies\, traces of banjo and harmonica—but\nsound too sly and smart for such a general category. Funny and sad often in the same\nbreath\, the album adds a new chapter to a long career that has enjoyed a resurgence as\nyoung songwriters like Sarah Jarosz and Jason Isbell cite him as a formative influence. \nAs varied as they are\, these new story-songs find inspiration in scraps from his family’s\npast: a stray sketch\, an old poem by a family friend\, the hallucinations experienced by\nhis father\, the writer Larry McMurtry. “It’s something I do all the time\,” he says\, “but\nusually I draw from my own scraps.” As any good writer will do\, McMurtry collects little\nideas and hangs on to them for years\, sometimes even decades. “South Texas Lawman”\ngrew out of a line from a poem by a friend of the McMurtry clan\, T.D. Hobart. Driven by\ngravelly guitars and a loose rhythm section\, it’s a careful study of a man whose feelings\nof obsolescence motivate him to take drastic action in the final verse. “Dwight’d stay at\nour house way back in the ‘70s\, when we lived in Virginia. During one visit he wrote this\npoem about his father’s attitude toward South Texas. He wrote it down on cardboard\,\nand I came across it recently. There was a line about hunting quail on horseback\, and\nthat was the seed of the song. I’ve lost the poem since then.” \nThe rumbling title track\, a kind of squirrelly blues\, features two mysterious figures who\nappear only to those slipping from reality\, yet it’s never grim nor especially despairing.\nInstead\, McMurtry namechecks a “Weird Al” deep cut and depicts a tortured soul who\ndoesn’t have to work a nine-to-five. He finds a defiant humor in the situation at odds\nwith the gravity of the source material. “The title of the album and that song comes from\nmy stepmother\, Faye. After my dad passed\, she asked me if he ever talked to me about\nhis hallucinations. He’d gone into dementia for a while before he died\, but hadn’t\nmentioned to me anything about seeing things. She told me his favorite hallucinations \nwere the black dog and the wandering boy. I took them and applied them to a fictional\ncharacter.” \nSoon McMurtry had enough of these songs for a new record. “It happened like all my\nrecords happened. It’d been too long since I’d had a record that the press could write\nabout and get people to come out to my shows. It was time.” What was different this\ntime was the presence of his old friend Don Dixon\, who produced McMurtry’s third\nalbum\, Where You’d Hide the Body?\, back in 1995. “A couple of years ago I quit\nproducing myself. I felt like I was repeating myself methodologically and stylistically. I\nneeded to go back to producer school\, so I brought in CC Adcock for Complicated Game\,\nand then Ross Hogarth did The Horses & the Hounds. It seemed natural to revisit Mr.\nDixon’s homeroom. I wanted to learn some of what he’s learned over the last thirty\nyears.” During sessions at Wire Recording in Austin\, McMurtry observed firsthand\nDixon’s grasp of digital recording technology as well as his instinctual approach to\ntracking. “What Don’s really good at is being able to sense when it’s happening. He can\nhear when it’s going down. If I’m producing myself and I don’t have him\, I have to do\nthree takes and then go in and listen to them. Listening to those three takes can take\nabout 15 minutes. So Dixon’s ability to know when it’s happening is crucial\, because it\ncan cut 15 minutes out of the day. That can really save a session\, because you only have\nso many hours in the day and only so much energy.\nWorking with McMurtry’s trusted backing band—Cornbread on bass\, Tim Holt on\nguitar\, Daren Hess on drums\, BettySoo on backing vocals—they worked to create\nsomething that sounds spontaneous\, as though he’s writing the songs as you hear them.\nThey were open to odd experiments\, weird whims\, and happy accidents\, such as the\ncover of Jon Dee Graham’s “Laredo” that opens the album. It’s an opioid blues:\ntestimony from a part-time junkie losing a weekend to dope. “We were playing a benefit\nfor Jon Dee at the Hole in the Wall there in Austin\, and we thought it’d be good if we\nplayed one of his songs. We rehearsed the song in the studio\, and it sounded good. The\ndrums were ready. We’d already got the sounds up. Might as well record it.” \n“Laredo” is one of a pair of covers that bookend The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy\,\nthe other being Kris Kristofferson’s “Broken Freedom Song.” “I did that one a few weeks\nafter our initial sessions. It was just me and BettySoo\, then we added drums and bass\nlater on. Kris had just passed not too long before we recorded it. I guess that’s why I was\nthinking about him.” Like Hobart’s poem\, it’s a bit of inspiration excavated from deep\nwithin his own life. “Kris was one of my major influences as a child. He was the first\nperson that I recognized as a songwriter. I hadn’t really thought about where songs\ncame from\, but I started listening to Kristofferson as a songwriter and thinking\, How do\nyou do this? He was actually the second concert I saw. I was nine. He and the band were \nhaving such a good time\, and that really solidified for me that this was what I wanted to\ndo with my life.” \nOnce the album was mixed\, mastered\, and sequenced\, McMurtry recalled a rough pencil\nsketch he had found a few years earlier in his father’s effects. It seemed like it might\nmake a good cover. “I knew it was of me\, but I didn’t realize who drew it. I asked my\nmom and my stepdad\, and finally I asked my stepmom\, Faye\, who said it looked like\nKen Kesey’s work back in the ‘60s. She was married to Ken for forty years.” The Merry\nPrankster’s—Kesey’s roving band of hippie activists and creators—stopped by often to\nvisit Larry McMurtry and his family. “I don’t remember their first visit\, the one\ndocumented in Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I was too young\, but I do\nremember a couple of Ken’s visits. I guess he drew it on one of those later stops. I\nremembered it and thought it would be the perfect art\, but I had to go back through the\nstorage locker. It’s a miracle that I found it again.”\nIt’s a fitting image for an album that scavenges personal history for inspiration. Even the\nsongwriter himself doesn’t always know what will happen or where the songs will take\nhim. “You follow the words where they lead. If you can get a character\, maybe you can\nget a story. If you can set it to a verse-chorus structure\, maybe you can get a song. A\nsong can come from anywhere\, but the main inspiration is fear. Specifically\, fear of\nirrelevance. If you don’t have songs\, you don’t have a record. If you don’t have a record\,\nyou don’t have a tour. You gotta keep putting out work.”
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/james-mcmurtry-the-martial-law-review-sportsmens-park/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Stages
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SUMMARY:Americana-rama 250th Independence Day Celebration - Sportsmens Park
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nAmericanarama 250th Independence Day Celebration \nSaturday\, July 4\, 2026 2pm Sportsmens Park \n$20.00 + Online Fee \n \nBill Kirchen & Too Much Fun \nTwang Gang \nThe Steam Donkeys \nTen Cent Howl \nCory Grinder & The Playboy Scouts \nRain or Shine event. Bring a chair.
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/americana-rama-250th-independence-day-celebration-sportsmens-park/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Stages
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T190000
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SUMMARY:Jim Lauderdale - Sportsmens
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nJim Lauderdale \nWednesday\, July 15\, 2026 $25.00 + Online Fee \n5pm Doors\, 7pm Show \n \n  \n \nPhoto by Scott Simontacchi \nJim Lauderdale embodies the sound of American roots music for listeners around\nthe world. A 2025 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame\,\nLauderdale will release his 38th and 39th albums in 2026: Country Super Hits\nVolume 2 and a bluegrass collection\, The Birds Know. His major label debut\,\n1991’s Planet of Love\, opened the door to international touring and established him\nas an A-list songwriter on Music Row. His songs have been recorded by George\nStrait\, Patty Loveless\, George Jones\, the Chicks\, Old Crow Medicine Show\,\nLucinda Williams\, Charley Crockett\, Dave Edmunds\, Solomon Burke\, and many\nothers. Between 2004 and 2013\, Lauderdale wrote and recorded six albums with\nGrateful Dead songwriter Robert Hunter. His many other collaborators include\nBuddy Miller\, Elvis Costello\, Donna the Buffalo\, North Mississippi Allstars\, Po’\nRamblin’ Boys\, and Ralph Stanley. In 2016\, Lauderdale received a Lifetime\nAchievement Award from the Americana Music Association; he’s also won two\nGrammys in the Best Bluegrass Album category.
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/jim-lauderdale-sportsmens/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Tavern\, 326 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Singer Songwriter,Sportsmens,Sportsmens,Stages
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T190000
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SUMMARY:Sunny Sweeney wsg/ Kayla Ray- Sportsmens
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nSunny Sweeney \nwsg/ Kayla Ray \nWednesday\, July 29\, 2026 5pm Doors\, 7pm Show \n$25.00 \n \n  \n \nFollowing your instincts is not as easy as Sunny Sweeney makes it look. A patron saint of broken hearts on the mend\, Sweeney comforts the rest of us by being honest with herself––and everybody else. She is her generation’s sly country conscience\, warm but stubborn\, sad but funny\, rowdy but thoughtful. \n“I am so glad I’ve been able to get this far in this business and still hold my music values\,” Sweeney says. “Being independent has given me the freedom to do more of what I want.” \nFor Sweeney\, doing what she wants has meant crafting smart honky tonk for about two decades. “I really do love country music\,” she says. “For me\, it’s the stories and hooks.” Her new album Rhinestone Requiemis a delectable testament to that love\, brimming with achingly pretty melodies and grown-up storytelling. It’s also an expertly assembled grab bag of the traditional song structures that have built country music\, one three-quarter whirl at a time. \nIf anyone has the bona fides to be country music’s loving\, defiant standard-bearer\, it’s Sweeney. In addition to releasing 5 critically acclaimed albums since her 2006 debut Heartbreaker’s Hall of Fame\, she has become a trusted song curator and advocate for other artists as the host of her SiriusXM shows The Sunny Side of Life on Outlaw Country and Sunny Side Up on Willie’s Roadhouse. Sweeney keeps adding new feathers to her signature hat: She and her longtime guitarist Harley Husbands produced Rhinestone Requiem and are working as producers on additional projects. “We both have very strong points and very strong opinions\,” Sweeney says of Husbands with a laugh. “But we work very well together.” \nBorn in Houston and raised in East Texas\, Sweeney made her home the road before settling down in the hills of Hendersonville\, Tennessee\, a couple of years ago. The release of Rhinestone Requiem represents another milestone. “This is the first time I’ve made a record when I don’t have relationship problems\,” Sweeney says\, smiling. “My last album\, ‘Married Alone\,’ was made right after my divorce. I’ve lived some life. Not all of it’s been pretty. But I feel like that’s what makes really good music.” \nSweeney takes her calling as friend to the hurt and alone seriously––and Rhinestone Requiem shines because of it. Recorded at Tommy Detamore’s Cherry Ridge Studio in Floresville\, Texas\, the album is a compelling snapshot of an artist who knows who she is and what she loves. “I really wanted this album to be a mixture of all the old styles of country music: Jerry Lee Lewis\, Waylon Jennings\, Loretta Lynn\,” Sweeney says\, ticking off a list of some of her idols. “I make music for myself and hope other people like it.” \nIndeed\, the specter of Lewis looms large from the jump\, as the album kicks off with “Find It Where I Can\,” the sauntering\, boozy warning shot recorded by The Killer\, as well as other giants including Waylon Jennings. Sweeney discovered the song during a late-night YouTube deep dive into videos of Lewis and Mickey Gilley hammering away on dueling baby grands. “You know\, they’re cousins\, and their grandmother taught them how to play piano––that’s why their playing style is so similar!” Sweeney says\, relishing the backstory. “And when I heard this song\, I knew I had to record it. It’s not like anything else I have\, and it’s just so fun to sing and play.” \nJubilantly wry “Diamonds and Divorce Decrees” traces the ruins after a marriage ends\, cataloging the pain but looking stubbornly toward happiness. Sweeney has been playing the song live\, and has been struck by how strongly audiences have responded. “One night after we played it\, a guy came up to the stage and said\, ‘I have three days until my divorce is final\, and this song made me know everything is going to be fine\,’” Sweeney says. \nWritten with dear friend and frequent collaborator Brennen Leigh\, “Traveling On” is a superbly crafted heartbreaker showcasing the devastating power of Sweeney’s voice. Written with Ben Chapman and Erin Enderlin\, “Is Tonight the Night (I Make You a Memory)” starts off slow and sad\, before speeding up into a bouncy\, steel-laced shuffle worthy of The Mavericks. Another Enderlin and Sweeney collaboration with the addition of Gary Nicholson\, “I Drink Well with Others” is a winking dancehall duster\, while “As Long as There’s a Honky Tonk”––written with Buddy Owens and Galen Griffin––is a swaggering\, piano-soaked proclamation of independence. \nOne of only two album tracks Sweeney didn’t have a hand in writing\, “Last Hard Bible” nods to the whimsical grit of its writer and original recording artist\, Kasey Chambers\, as Sweeney steers the song firmly into saloon-worthy territory. Chambers and her brother\, Nash\, provide harmonies on Sweeney’s track. When Sweeney joins Chambers for shows in the summer of 2025\, it will mark a full-circle moment for Sweeney\, who is a longtime fan of the Australian singer-songwriter. \nWith crying steel\, “Waiting for a Reason to Stay” tearfully harnesses the potential of conversational songwriting. “I’ve always wondered what was wrong with me\,” Sweeney sings\, opening the song with gut-wrenching directness. What follows is a meditation on the days after you’ve decided to go––but haven’t left yet. “I’ve had records about the bad side of divorce\,” Sweeney says. “This is the light at the end of the tunnel.” Written with Owens and Monty Holmes\, album closer “Half Lit in 3/4 Time” is a masterclass in country songwriting\, as line after line pays tribute to honky tonk’s beloved instruments and golden standards. Featuring mournful fiddle\, “Houston Belongs to Me” already sounds like a classic\, as Sweeney’s resilient narrator lays claim to a hot\, complex city that she loves. “It’s healing: You’re taking ownership of where you are\,” Sweeney says. \nIt’s an idea Sweeney has embraced in various ways throughout her career: Lean into who and what you are––and revel in the liberation that brings. Her fierce independence has allowed her to speak to us with the care of a trusted confidant who sees our hurts and is rooting for us. “I feel like that’s what I grew up loving about music––I felt like I was their friend\,” Sweeney says. “I felt like they were talking––singing––to me.” \n \n  \nDropping a needle on Kayla Ray’s music can feel a bit like driving down a sunbaked two-lane highway. You roll the windows down\, feel a sticky-warm breeze circling your hair and you let the soundtrack of real-life stories fuel every mile of the drive. \n  \nAnd for Ray\, a rising country artist and songwriter\, that’s no accident. A native of Waco\, Texas\, Ray was baptized to the tune of Bob Wills and Tanya Tucker. She can recite Merle Haggard deep cuts without missing a beat and\, as a kid\, Ray often tuned into the Grand Ole Opry with her grandfather\, (by whom she was raised) who built a makeshift antenna to ensure the family picked up a long-distance AM signal from faraway Nashville\, Tennessee. \n  \nShe’s spent her early years cutting her teeth in the industry\, studying the rules of the road with country music’s Gimble family (Dick and Emily\, the son and granddaughter of Country Music Hall of Famer Johnny Gimble) before tour managing for honky-tonk staple Jason Eady. In 2014\, she graduated from backstage to centerstage\, releasing her first all original album and touring the national independent circuit singing her songs – sprinkled with appreciation for the artists who helped raise her – Hank Williams\, Tom T. Hall and\, of course\, Loretta Lynn. \n  \nmore info at https://kaylaraymusic.com/about/
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/sunny-sweeney-sportsmens/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Tavern\, 326 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Sportsmens,Sportsmens,Stages
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SUMMARY:Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys - Sportsmens
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nBig Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys \nSunday\, September 20\, 2026 $20.00+ Online fee \n2pm Doors\, 4pm Show \n  \n \n  \nBig Sandy and His Fly-Rite BoysSince forming in 1988 in Southern California\, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys have become one of the world’s most beloved Americana/Roots acts\, drawing from the deep musical waters that flow justbeneath the surface of Rock & Roll’s fertile soil. A childhood passionfor Country\, Doo-Wop\, and Rhythm & Blues 45s led Sandy (bornRobert Williams) to pursue a singing career as a teenager\, beginninga life in music that continues decades later. And as his personalrecord collection continues to grow (75\,000 and counting)\, so doesthe depth of the musical influences that stream through hissongwriting and singing style. A critically acclaimed tribute to Tex-Mex hero Freddy Fender\, released at the beginning of the 2020lockdown\, points the way forward for Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boysas they continue on a path of musical growth. After nearly 35 years onthe road\, and more than two dozen releases to their credit\, theyremain key figures on the ever-changing Americana circuit\, both onrecord and in live appearances.
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/big-sandy-and-his-fly-rite-boys-sportsmens/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Tavern\, 326 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Sportsmens,Sportsmens,Stages
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260929T190000
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SUMMARY:Dale Watson & His Lone Stars - Sportsmens
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nDale Watson & His Lone Stars \nTuesday\, September 29\, 2026 5pm Doors\, 7pm Showtime \n$35.00+ Online Fee \n \njan 12\, 2026\, Dale Watson photographed in New York City\n \nDale Watson is a living legend of American roots music. With Texas-sized defiance and drive\, he’s spent four decades flying the flag for his own brand of honky-tonk\, outlaw country\, western swing\, and rockabilly. That signature sound has a name — “Ameripolitan” — and its originator is Watson himself: a singer\, songwriter\, guitarist\, producer\, actor\, cultural architect\, and rule-breaking traditionalist for the modern world\, championing the traditions that fly in the face of the homogenous mainstream. \n  \nMore than 30 albums stand between Watson’s teenage years in Texas\, where he cut his teeth on Houston’s honky-tonk circuit\, and his latest release\, 2026’s Unwanted. That body of work hasn’t just brought him an international audience stretching from East Texas to Europe with TV appearances on major national platforms like PBS’s Austin City Limits\, Jimmy Kimmel Live!\, and The Late Show with David Letterman; it’s also cemented his reputation as a musical maverick who’s worthy of sharing the same stage as his heroes\, with shows alongside Merle Haggard\, Johnny Cash\, Willie Nelson\, and Kris Kristofferson. \n  \nWith Unwanted\, he fires another double-barreled shotgun blast of country twang and honky-tonk bang. It’s a raw\, rowdy record\, recorded in Austin and Memphis — two cities that have always lived large in Watson’s history — and fueled by the heartaches\, hard-won lessons\, and high-speed thrills of a life largely logged on the road. Singing with a booming voice that could cut through the chaos of a packed dancehall\, Watson runs the show like a roots-rock ringleader. He salutes his vices on the galloping “Willie Waylon and Whiskey\,” reflects upon a lifetime of loss with the gorgeous ballad “If You Really Loved Me (Outlive Me)\,” and gets wistfully reflective on “Life is Like a Song.” Entirely written and produced by Watson\, Unwanted is the sound of an Ameripolitan diehard with plenty of life left in the tank\, speeding toward a horizon of his own making. \n  \nIf the heart of American music beats loudest where tradition and innovation intersect\, then Dale Watson’s albums are the lifeblood of a sound that never dies.
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LOCATION:Sportsmens Tavern\, 326 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Sportsmens,Sportsmens,Stages
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