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Music Menu / News Plenty of choices on Saturday night (04/10/2010)

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Lizz Wright In the old days, pre-Auto-tune era, a singer like Lizz Wright wouldn't have to be categorized as a jazz-slash-gospel-R&B singer. She'd just be called a singer, same as Aretha or Patti LaBelle or Nina Simone. Already a force on the jazz charts only seven years removed from her debut offering (Salt), Wright's latest, The Orchard, is a suitably lush, fecund soundscape dominated by Wright's own compositions and a few well-placed covers (Ike and Tina, Patsy Cline). There's nothing strange about the fruit on these trees: Wright's evocative take on growing up in Georgia might not be idyllic, but it's elegiac all the same, which isn't an easy feat. Don Gibson Theatre, Shelby (Timothy C. Davis)

Radio Moscow Imagine surfing radio stations in 1971, there's Hendrix, MC5, Cream, Doors, Radio Moscow. Say what? These psychedelia-crazed acid rockers drape their Brit blues and hard rock influences all over the guitars, no apologies. The slow, hard-strummed strings expand with wah wah pedals, fuzzbox and other vintage hardware and amps of the era while rolling drums and thick bass completes the vibe. No worries if you don't dig this classic genre, but if you do, time travel to the late '60s is in the offing. Hallucinogens optional. With Naam and Husky. Tremont Music Hall (Samir Shukla)

Hellblinki At any moment expect Vincent Price to appear in a fog of organs and late night carnival music. Hellblinki are circus musicians, street-side revivalists, tin shack blues band, old-time horror movie sound track, sirens wailing on stormy seas and swing and antique jazz all rolled up into one. And then some. Bizarrely intriguing, in a Tom Waits, Louis Armstrong sphere, with a barrel full of sounds and sights that are all over the musical map. With the Wiggle Wagons. Snug Harbor (Shukla)

Yarn Blake Christiana, front man and songwriter for Brooklyn-based alt.Country band Yarn, croons and yodels as if born and bred in Dixie. The N.Y. native has evolved into such authenticity over the past few years and recordings, that he might as well have been birthed on a bar table in a rickety Southern honky-tonk. Yarn's upcoming new recording, Come On In, is salty Americana stacked with deft songcraft and twangy playing that'll keep diehard honky-tonkers soaked while reeling in casual observers. Also on the bill are the Trainwreks. Double Door Inn (Shukla)

The Farewell Drifters Retaking Nashville from the clutches of pop country, the bluegrass and acoustic roots quintet the Farewell Drifters write lilting numbers like "Please Dream of Me Tonight," and of sunny days in the South, sitting on a riverbank, tossing rocks in the water, in sweetly melodic tracks like "The River Song." Adept at originals as well as playing ripping versions of faves like the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," the band's new disc Yellow Tag Mondays is slated for release in early June. With the Honeycutters. The Evening Muse (Shukla)

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