20 July 6-12, 2023 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters 8 P.M. THURSDAY, JULY 6, TANNAHILL’S TAVERN AND MUSIC HALL, 122 E. EXCHANGE STE. 200. $28.75+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Academy Award-winning filmmaker and actor Billy Bob Thornton founded The Boxmasters in 2007 along with Grammy Award-winning pro- ducer J.D. Andrew as a way to live out his actual life ambition — being a musician, not an actor. Since then, the country rock band influenced by ZZ Top and Creedence Clearwater Revival has recorded over a dozen albums, with the most re- cent release, ’69, having come out this past May. Credited as “W.R. Thornton” in the band’s liner notes (though still touring as Billy Bob), the ac- tor performs two roles in the band, serving as its drummer and one of its vocalists, though on tour he serves as the frontman. Though Thorn- ton may not be known for his songwriting, his talents clearly extend beyond the big screen. The band’s Fort Worth date will kick off the last week of the Boxmasters’ U.S. tour before it heads across the Atlantic for a European tour with Bubbles & The Shitrockers. DAVID FLETCHER Steve Earle 7 P.M. FRIDAY, JULY 7, THE KESSLER, 1230 W. DAVIS ST. $48+ AT PREKINDLE.COM 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 8, TANNAHILL’S TAVERN AND MUSIC HALL, 122 E. EXCHANGE, STE. 200. $47+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM There’s something just so inherently Texan about Steve Earle’s music that has less to do with where the singer was raised and more to do with how his music sounds. Earle was always a rebel. Whether it be him leaving home at age 16 to track down Townes Van Zandt or recording with Irish folk-punk band The Pogues (“Johnny Come Lately”), Earle has always done country music ex- actly the way that he wants without apology or fear of the consequences. Have you ever tried to sing along to a Steve Earle song? His cadence can be so unnatural that other artists have a hard time fitting all those words into a single line the way Earle does. Somehow, Earle just makes it work. Earle’s Alone Again Solo & Acoustic tour makes two stops in North Texas this week. No opening act has been announced for his Fort Worth show, but Anders Parker will warm up the crowd for his Friday night show in Oak Cliff. DF I Love The 90s Tour 7:30 P.M. FRIDAY, JULY 7, THE PAVILION AT TOYOTA MUSIC FACTORY, 300 W. LAS COLINAS BLVD. $29.50+ AT LIVENATION.COM Summertime is here, and as such, it is time for another round of the I Love The 90s Tour. The tour brings together some serious ’90s hip-hop and R&B nostalgia with performances by Rob Base, All-4-One, 2 Live Crew, Tone Loc and, as headliner, Dallas’ own Vanilla Ice. You may re- member Rob Base from his time with DJ E-Z Rock and the hip-hop duo’s crossover pop hit “It Takes Two.” All-4-One is probably best known for its R&B cover of John Michael Montgomery’s “I Swear,” but it also had other hits with “So Much in Love” and “I Can Love You Like That.” Rapper Tone Loc had two very similar sounding hits with “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina,” and rap group 2 Live Crew might be most re- membered from the 1990 obscenity trial around its album As Nasty as They Wanna Be, particu- larly the single “Me So Horny.” And say what you will about Vanilla Ice, but you too will be danc- ing and smiling when he performs “Ice Ice Baby.” DF Amanda Shires 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 8, LONGHORN BALLROOM, 216 CORINTH ST. $28+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Though you may know Amanda Shires as the woman who stood by Jason Isbell throughout his struggles with addiction or as a member of Is- bell’s backing band The 400 Unit, Shires was proving her gifts as a songwriter long before she met Isbell, when Isbell was still recording with Drive-By Truckers. Shires credits Dallas’ AllGood Cafe owner Mike Snider with giving her a space to develop as an artist in the songwriter’s early years. Since then, Shires has gone on to record with country music supergroup The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Ar- lington’s Maren Morris. As a treat to North Texas, Shires’ performance will celebrate the life and music of pianist and singer Bobbie Nelson. She will be joined by Asleep At the Wheel to perform selections from the forthcoming album Loving You, a collaborative project Shires and Nelson re- corded prior to Nelson’s death. DF Paramore 7 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 8, DICKIES ARENA, 1911 MONTGOMERY ST. $155+ One of the most anticipated concerts of the year, Paramore returns to North Texas for the first time since 2018 in support of its February release This Is Why. Met with universal acclaim from critics, the album marks the band’s return to a more guitar-driven sound since the its foray into synth-pop on 2017’s After Laughter. The band’s most mature release to date, This Is Why has more in common with Yeah Yeah Yeahs than it does with Paramore’s earlier work. In 2018, the band announced that it would no longer be playing its hit song “Misery Business” because of the perceived sexism of a line in the song’s second verse: “Once a whore, you’re nothing more, I’m sorry, that will never change.” Thanks to its fans’ overwhelming disappointment, the song has been returned to the setlist. Los Ange- les’ teenage, all-girl, pop-punk band The Linda Lindas opens the show followed by a set from English indie-rock band Foals. 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