21 January 18 - 24, 2024 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Lucinda Williams 6:30 P.M. THURSDAY, JAN. 18, LONGHORN BALLROOM, 216 CORINTH ST. $32+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Country rocker Lucinda Williams and Her Band will be playing at the Longhorn Ballroom this Thursday in celebration of the music that has gotten the singer-songwriter through her dark- est days. Williams recently recounted all the chaos of growing up in the Deep South in her candid new memoir Don’t Tell Any- body the Secrets I Told You. The memoir was part of a recovery process that started when Williams suffered a debilitating stroke on Nov. 17, 2020, at age 67. The stroke left Williams un- able to play the guitar, but her songwriting and her vocals are as strong as ever. Her 15th studio album, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, was released shortly after her memoir last summer and features some of the best songwriting Williams has done in years. DAVID FLETCHER Old Crow Medicine Show 7 P.M. THURSDAY, JAN. 18, WILL ROGERS AUDITORIUM, 3401 W. LANCASTER AVE. $25.95+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Everybody knows Darius Rucker’s hit song “Wagon Wheel” but might not know is that it was first performed by Tennes- see’s Old Crow Medicine Show. The chorus was written by Bob Dylan during the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid sessions in Feb- ruary 1973. After hearing the chorus melody on a bootleg re- cording, Old Crow Medicine Show vocalist and instrumentalist Ketch Secor added verses to it. The result was one of the most compelling songs ever written about hitchhiking one’s way home, and as smooth as Rucker’s version is, it will never cap- ture the loneliness and longing quite the same way Old Crow Medicine Show did. The band will play with opener Willie Wat- son this Thursday as part of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Ro- deo Auditorium Entertainment Series. DF Elvis Costello & The Imposters 8 P.M. FRIDAY, JAN. 19, MAJESTIC THEATRE, 1925 ELM ST. $117.50+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM At 14 years old, Declan Patrick MacManus started learning how to sing and play guitar, and he would sign up for open mic nights in London and perform whatever he had been learning. By 17, he was performing original songs, and by 18, he joined his first band, Rusty. At 19, Declan borrowed the last name Costello from his father, Ross, who had used the name because it was easier to say and spell over the phone than MacManus. After several years performing as De- clan or D.P. Costello, the singer was given the name Elvis in 1977, simply to get him more attention. It worked. My Aim Is True was re- leased later that year and became a huge hit in England and the U.S. with hits “Less Than Zero,” “Alison” and “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes.” Now well into his fifth decade as punk’s greatest poet and prophet, Costello returns to Dallas with Charlie Sexton on Costello’s 7-0-7 Tour. DF Voodoo Glow Skulls 7 P.M. SATURDAY, JAN. 20, GRANADA THEATER, 3524 GREENVILLE AVE. $22.50+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Formed in Riverside, California, in 1988, Voodoo Glow Skulls have been making the highest-energy ska punk since the third wave of the genre hit America. Many others were doing the ska punk thing, but where Operation Ivy was focused on mellow- ness or The Mighty Mighty Bosstones were on bounciness, the Voodoo Glow Skulls zeroed in on complete chaos and how to keep it under control. And while those other bands were more on the punk side of ska, Voodoo Glow Skulls was on the hard- core spectrum, so much so that the band actually left the tra- ditionally punk label Epitaph for the traditionally hardcore label Victory in 2002, solidifying its place among the loudest and angriest bands of the day. In 2017, lead singer Frank Casil- las left the band and was replaced with Efrem Schulz of Death by Stereo. A big change for sure, but not one that changes the band’s sound or spirit. Mustard Plug and Bite Me Bambi open the show. DF Smokey Robinson 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY, JAN. 20, WILL ROGERS AUDITORIUM, 3401 W. LANCASTER AVE. $45.95+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM R&B and soul legend Smokey Robinson was 17 when he and his band The Miracles met with Berry Gordy and the young singer impressed the future founder of Motown Records with his voice and songwriting. The Miracles was was the first on the la- bel to have a million-selling hit record with “Shop Around” in 1960. Robinson would also go on to pen hits for others includ- ing “The Way You Do The Things You Do,” “My Girl” and “Get Ready,” which were all made famous by The Temptations. Six- and-a-half decades and 23 albums later, 83-year-old Robinson has accumulated a long list of honors for his lifetime of contri- butions to the music world, including honorary doctorates from Howard University and the Berklee College of Music as well as an induction into the Kennedy Center, which he ac- cepted alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton and Steven Spielberg in 2006. DF | LET’S DO THIS | t Music Victor Diaz Lamich / Wikimedia Commons Elvis Costello comes to the Majestic Theatre Friday, Jan. 19. Hottest Latin aduLt CLub in daLLas! Free Menudo all day sunday Happy Hour everyday 11aM-7PM hours: sun-thur 11aM-2aM // Fri-sat 11aM-4aM 11044 Harry Hines boulevard // (214) 206-3820 chicasbonitas.business.site
