Event

Jason Boland and The Stragglers at RockbarScottsdale

Rockbar Inc. presents
JASON BOLAND and THE STRAGGLERS
with special guests
RYAN BEXLEY
$18presale/$22dos 7pm Doors 21+
ViP Tables Res TEXT 480-331-9190
www.RockbarScottsdale.com

JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS
Its admirable when a musician gets back to his roots, theres no questioning that. But in a lot of ways, its even more admirable when an artist has no need to do that having never lost touch with those roots in the first place. Jason Boland falls squarely into the latter category, having spent the better part of the last 15 years entrenching himself in the so-called red dirt of his native state of Oklahoma and adopted home in Texas and while spreading his musical branches to cover a remarkable amount of territory.
Ive always thought it was important to keep one foot in tradition and the other pointed in the direction you want to go, says Boland. I didnt invent the G chord, so Im standing on the shoulders of the giants that did, and on the shoulders of some great songwriters that have come before me. Im using an old stencil, but adding my own colors.
On their new studio album, Dark And Dirty Mile, Boland and his compatriots use a wide array of hues to illustrate 11 songs of rejection and redemption, dark clouds and silver linings, all assembled in the rough-hewn manner thats earned him an ever-growing fan base a following thats snapped up more than a half-million records over the past decade and change