John Paul White has been keeping busy. Post Civil Wars split he founded the Florence, AL based indie label Single Lock Records and Single Lock Records’ live music venue 116 E. Mobile with Ben Tanner from Alabama Shakes and Will Trapp. The label that has released the acclaimed debut of St. Paul And The Broken Bones, Penny & Sparrow’s Let A Lover Drown You—which White produced —as well as albums by artists including Belle Adair, The Bear, and Donnie Fritts’ Oh My Goodness. White has also been collaborating with noted performers like Jason Isbell, Candi Staton, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell.
Except for his recent addition of the elegantly aching ‘Simple Song’ on Dave Cobb’s ‘Southern Family’ his solo performances of his own compositions have been scarce. Well, no longer!
John Paul White will embark on a series of select performances this summer, including dates at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live, and Louisville’s Zanzabar, with support from Secret Sisters. The tour will feature new material White has been readying over the past year.
For tickets and more information visit www.singlelock.com.
John Paul White Dates
June 13 Decatur, GA Eddie’s Attic*
June 14 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle – Back Room*
June 16 Charlottesville, VA The Southern Cafe and Music Hall*
June 17 Arlington, VA IOTA Club & Cafe*
June 21 Brooklyn, NY National Sawdust*
June 22 Boston, MA Berklee College of Music: The Red Room @ Cafe 939*
June 23 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live Upstairs*
June 25 Pittsburgh, PA Club Cafe*
June 26 Louisville, KY Zanzabar*
*with Secret Sisters
Well, sorta. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price with opener Asleep at the Wheel will come to Radio City Music Hall for thier The Last of the Breed show on 3/22 the night before Lucinda Williams plays the same room the night after. This is going to be a great couple of days for country music fans in Gotham.
Just a quick note from my family’s home in Dallas wishing all my readers a great thanksgiving (yeah it’s late, but what else is new?). Go celibrate by heading to your local bar, tavern or honky-tonk and supporting the working musicians that are still sweating it out and bringing you the best damn music that the major lables try and make you forget about. Hoist a pint or shot for the passion, beauty and heartache that music can bring and flip a bird to the machine that trys to put out the flame. 
First up is O.C. California’s gritty chugg-chuggin “
And speaking of white folks, the next band up are homeboys from Austin Texas “
While visiting my folks in Dallas for the 4th of July I was lucky enough to see Eleven Hundred Springs play at the great local watering hole the Old Monk off Henderson Ave. There’s nothing better to celebrate what’s right with America is a cold beer and some hot honky tonk. And Eleven Hundred Springs was as right as they come.