Arkansas Times

Rock Candy

« Tuesday To-Do: Cross Canadian Ragweed | Main | Out today: Al Green, the Good Fear, Isaac Alexander and Jason Morphew »

Tuesday To-Do: Patrick Sweany

 


Above, Sweany shills for Dean Guitars and talks playing finger-style and hollow-body guitars. With performance footage, too.

PATRICK SWEANY
10 p.m., White Water Tavern. $5.

Mark this one down. If seeing someone in the small club who's destined for the big club tickles your fancy, if you've been craving a full-throated belter, if you like your guitar virtuosity to hypnotize, if a raw helping of blues/rock/soul sounds about right, go see Patrick Sweany. The Massillon, Ohio, native impressed hugely on his first visit to White Water Tavern in February with a raucous two-set performance. He's still touring behind his latest album, “Every Hour is a Dollar Gone,” which was produced by the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach. It's a gem of a record, a dirty, late-night blues-rocker that should be the soundtrack to dive bars everywhere (it is, of course, at White Water). Maybe I was drinking too much, but the first time Sweany came through, all I had to do was squint a little to imagine being in Junior Kimbrough's juke joint. This is blues-rock to sway to — for hours.

Posted by Lindsey Millar on May 27, 2008 02:02 PM |

Comments

Patrick Sweany is fantastic. He blew my mind last time he was in town.

Posted by: TheGoodDoctor [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 27, 2008 03:36 PM

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Thrown a bone
Date: 7/2/2009
By: Gerard Matthews
When the General Assembly passed a law earlier this year to make acts of aggravated animal cruelty a felony in Arkansas, Kay Simpson, director of the Humane Society of Pulaski County, cried. /more/
>> In frame

Will fill job
Date: 7/2/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff
Dan O'Byrne, informed by e-mails from City Director Ken Richardson that it was high time the CEO of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau filled the director of diversity sales position, said Monday a national search will begin once the city's human resources office approves the job description. /more/


That was him, this is me
Date: 7/2/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff
When Bill Clinton was president and Mark Sanford was in Congress, the South Carolina representative and moralist was unforgiving of Clinton's marital misconduct. /more/