Go See JD McPherson and/or Kate Clover

Last weekend I went to see JD McPherson and he kicked ass.  You can tell he spends time with Dan Auerbach because he and the band sounded meticulously like their album versions ... except when they decided to jam out and did Bloodhound Rock into Wolf Teeth and blew the roof off the place.  Apparently they've done this before.

They also covered Richie Valens, Iggy Pop, and The Velvet Underground.  Here's the setlist, I'll embed a Spotify playlist here later.  Suffice it to say it was good-old-fashioned, extremely accessible rock n roll and you should go see him if he's in your area.

But even more impressive was the opening act, Kate Clover.  Her stuff on Spotify is crisply produced and she even has videos so I expected something pretty commercial.  Instead I got an honest-to-god punk rock show.  Here's an older set with decent recording quality.

And here's a set with her current, better guitar player (but you can't hear the vocals too well).

So go see her too.