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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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SUMMARY:Coat of Many Colors  A Celebration of the Life\, Music & Legacy of Dolly Parton  - The Cave
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS PURCHASED FOR THE 9/18 DATE WILL BE HONORED FOR THIS DATE \nThe Cave presents \nCoat of Many Colors \nA Celebration of the Life\, Music & Legacy of Dolly Parton \nBenefitting Dolly Partons Imagination Library \nSaturday\, October 3\, 2026 7pm Doors\, 8pm Showtime \n$20.00 + Online Fee
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/coat-of-many-colors-a-celebration-of-the-life-music-legacy-of-dolly-parton-the-cave/
LOCATION:The Cave\, 71 Military Road\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Country,Genre,Stages,The Cave
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SUMMARY:The Gibson Brothers - Sportsmens
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nThe Gibson Brothers \nSunday\, October 4\, 2026 $30.00 + Online Fees \n4pm Doors\, 6pm Showtime \n \n \n  \nThe Gibson Brothers \nThere’s a reason why Ricky Skaggs pulled Eric and Leigh Gibson off the stage at the Ryman \ntwo decades ago and offered to produce their debut record. The same thing that led David \nFerguson and Grammy Award winning producer and Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach to \nco‑write and produce their 14th album “Mockingbird” (2018) and release it on his own label Easy \nEye Sound alongside cultural icons such as Hank Williams Jr. and Dr. John: The Gibson \nBrothers are the real deal. They can pick. They can sing. And they can write a damn good \ncountry song. They’ve won about every bluegrass award you can name and released albums on \nalmost every Premier Americana label you can think of including Sugar Hill and Rounder\, and\, if \nthat’s not enough\, their songs have been recorded by bluegrass legends no less than Del \nMcCoury. It’s a resume almost anybody in country music would be proud to have. But despite all \nof this\, The Gibson Brothers are not yet household names. Their latest album\, \n“Darkest Hour\,” produced by dobro master Jerry Douglas might just change that. \nAs soon as you hear Leigh singing with Alison Krauss [“I Feel The Same Way As You”] on the \nnew project you realize that his voice is as good as anyone in music today. Add the brother \nharmony to that and they have something truly unique. While “Mockingbird” featured gorgeous \nproduction\, recreating the sound on stage was difficult. \n“We put together a little band to go out and try to recreate it\,” \nEric told me\, but we couldn’t. We would have to have such a huge band to \ntry to recreate that record\, but we did the best we could.” \nDouglas—who has won 14 Grammy awards and backed up everyone from Ray Charles to Paul \nSimon and George Jones—wanted to make a record they could actually play on the road. So he \npicked the best songs (out of dozens) and squirreled them away in Sound Emporium’s Studio B. \nBut then the pandemic hit. \n“We did our last shows in March of 2020\, ” Eric told me. \n“We were in Nashville the week everything was shutting down. It was surreal\, but Jerry was like\, \n‘Guys\, the world’s going crazy. Let’s let this be our little cocoon. \n’ And we did. We cut all of the acoustic stuff and then went home and didn’t play any more gigs until things started opening. \nThen we went back and finished the record with Jerry in February of 2021.” \nThe result is arguably the strongest record The Gibson Brothers have ever made. The songs \nrecorded in the first recording period featured Mike Barber (bass)\, Justin Moses (mandolin)\, \nEamon McGloughlin (fiddle)\, and of course\, Jerry Douglas\, adding in John Gardner (drums)\, \nGuthrie Trapp (electric guitar)\, and Todd Parks (bass) for the final tracks\, \n“Darkest Hour” showcases just how easily Eric and Leigh move from what Dan Auerbach dubbed “country soul” \n(“I Go Driving”) to high octane bluegrass (“What a Difference A Day Makes” and “Dust”) with \nDouglas always keeping the spotlight on the songs themselves. \n“That’s what I love about those guys\,” Douglas told me “they are just great songwriters.” \nGrowing up on a dairy farm in northern New York and then traveling around the world in a \nbluegrass band has given them a unique vantage point on life\, and the songs on “Darkest Hour” \nare a testament to that. “Jerry wanted to hear everything we’d written\,” Eric told me\, “so we just \nsent him songs: brand new songs\, old songs\, there’s stuff on that record 20 years old that we \nnever recorded. We wanted to see what he would do with us as singer‑songwriters. We respect \nhim that much. Some of my favorite records are Jerry Douglas produced records. He didn’t \ndisappoint.” \nIf The Gibson Brothers had stayed in Nashville in 1999 they might possibly be Grand Ole Opry \nmembers by now. At the very least they would be hit songwriters on Music Row. But\, just like \ntheir buddy Del McCoury\, they chose family over success (McCoury was in his 50s when he \nmoved to Nashville and didn’t really see major success until he was approaching 60). All they \nneed is someone to shine a light on them.Their talent level is well‑established\, the only \nproducers they have ever worked with are Ricky Skaggs\, Dan Auerbach\, David Ferguson \nandJerry Douglas. I dare say not many musicians can stack up a list of producers that strong. \nFor The Gibson Brothers though\, they just want to keep writing\, singing\, and standing on a \nstage.
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LOCATION:Sportsmens Tavern\, 326 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Bluegrass,Country,Genre,Sportsmens,Sportsmens,Stages
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SUMMARY:Kelsey Waldon - Sportsmens
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nKelsey Waldon \nThursday\, November\, 19\, 2026 $25.00+ Online fee \n5pm Doors/7pm Showtime \n \n \n  \nIn the six years since she signed to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records\, Kelsey Waldon has earned wide praise for her “self-penned compositions [with] the patina of authenticity” (Rolling Stone). On her new album\, Every Ghost\, she confronts addiction\, grief\, generational trauma\, and even herself — and comes through it stronger and at peace. \n  \n“There’s a lot of hard-earned healing on this record\,” Waldon says of the nine-song project\, recorded at Southern Grooves studio in Memphis with her band\, The Muleskinners. As she sings in the record’s title track and first song\, “Ghost of Myself\,” she’s put in the work not only to better herself and leave behind bad habits\, but also to learn to love her past selves. \n  \nDoing so wasn’t easy\, Waldon admits. “It took time and experience\,” she says\, adding that she can now find compassion for her younger self. \n  \n“I think you’ve gotta respect her\,” Waldon says\, “because she was trying as hard as she could for where she was at\, and she was doing a damn good job.” \n  \nCompassion is a throughline on Every Ghost\, whether it’s for Waldon herself\, for the person in the throes of addiction in “Falling Down\,” or for a suffering world in “Nursery Rhyme.” The people in Waldon’s songs aren’t irredeemable — they’re struggling. \n  \n“You’ve got to have compassion; you gotta stay humble and have gratitude\,” Waldon says. However\, she’s learned that you also can’t let people take advantage of an empathetic heart. “Comanche” — which Waldon jokes is her very own truck song — finds Waldon grappling with the loss of a loved one\, not to death but to boundaries she’s set for her own good. Waldon owns a 1988 Jeep Comanche\, and driving it serves as a kind of therapy for her. \n  \n“I love the whole aspect of when design mattered\,” she says\, “and owning your car was an expression of yourself.” \n  \n“Comanche” is deeply personal\, but Waldon’s most introspective reflections bookend My Ghost. Its penultimate song\, “My Kin\,” extends the idea of loving yourself in spite of yourself beyond the choices she’s made and the circumstances she’s put herself in\, to reckon with both the good and the bad that come from her family tree. Those traits\, Waldon concludes\, make her who she is. \n  \n“As the song says\, ‘I’m the best and worst of my kin\,’ and I love that for myself\,” says Waldon\, who was born and raised in a hunting lodge at the end of a dead-end road in the rural\, unincorporated community of Monkey’s Eyebrow\, Ky. “And I’m also at a point where I’m willing to break these cycles\, I’m willing to grow\, I’m willing to evolve.” \n  \nAmong those best parts of her lineage is Waldon’s grandmother\, who died in June 2024. “She was a remarkable woman. The women in my family have been rocks\, and they’ve all been colorful and full of character\,” Waldon says. \n  \n“Her garden and her yard\, that might have been one of the things she took the most pride in\,” Waldon adds\, recalling how her granny would often stop to dig up roadside flowers\, then transplant them into her yard. A display of tiger lilies\, some of which now grow in Waldon’s yard in Tennessee\, was a particular point of pride. \n  \n“Transplanting is such a tradition — it can teach you a lot\,” Waldon says. “Life goes on\, beauty can grow from anywhere\, and as long as a person is remembered\, they’re never gone.” \n  \nWaldon honors her granny with the song “Tiger Lilies.” She didn’t want an over-the-top sentimental song\, so she instead leaned into the idea of traditions as a way to remember loved ones. “I’m sure Granny would love it\,” Waldon says. \n  \nEvery Ghost concludes with a Hazel Dickens cover\, “Ramblin’ Woman.” Waldon covered two Dickens songs on 2024’s There’s Always a Song and had added “Ramblin’ Woman” to their live sets as well. While Waldon didn’t originally intend to include their cover on this album\, it served as “a sonic star” during the recording process and has a message Waldon feels is still relevant decades after Dickens wrote it. “Hazel was ahead of her time\,” Waldon says. “Our existence is more than just what society expects of us. We’re more than just somebody’s girlfriend or wife or mother\, and those are all beautiful things\, but we can have our own independence\, and we don’t have to do it for anybody else. We’re beautiful\, magical\, and powerful creatures.” \n  \nThat’s certainly how Waldon sees herself after completing Every Ghost. “It feels like there’s a spirit of fearlessness throughout this album\,” Waldon says\, “and I’m really proud of that.” \n  \nWaldon’s fearlessness is among the reasons she landed at Oh Boy Records in 2019\, as the independent label’s first new signee in 15 years. It’s attracted fans to her headline tours and her festival sets\, and prompted artists including Tyler Childers\, Charley Crockett\, Robert Earl Keen\, Margo Price\, and Lucinda Williams to invite her on tour. It helped earn her both the title of “Kentucky Colonel” — an honor recognizing goodwill ambassadors of Kentucky’s culture and traditions — and a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual American Currents exhibit in 2024. \n  \n“True outlaw shit is sticking to your guns\, and I feel like I’m doing that\,” Waldon says. “I’m not saying I’m unbreakable\, but I feel almost unbreakable. I’ve already hurt the worst that I could and lived to tell the story. We can be thankful for our ghosts.”
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/kelsey-waldon-sportsmens/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Tavern\, 326 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
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