James Leg & Molly Gene One Whoaman Band

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Bayport BBQ

328 5th Ave. N.
Bayport, MN 55003

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Outstate

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This latest pair of deep blues nuggets to visit the Southern barbecue joint on the St. Croix should provide a fine antidote for an overdose of holiday malling. Tennessee's James Leg is the alias of Black Diamond Heavies chief growler and keyboards pounder John Wesley Myers, touring behind his solo release Solitary Pleasure. His gravelly rasp sounds a bit like Tom Waits with terminal tonsillitis, and there's no denying his passion as he moans about drink and women and, inevitably, fire and brimstone. Sometimes he conjures up a whiff of honky-tonk on his Fender Rhodes, and the odd inebriated horn weighs in, seemingly escaped from a Bourbon Street strip club, as on "No License (Song for the Caged Bird)." But generally Leg's drift is hard blues left out in the garage for a few weeks. He'll be accompanied by a drummer here. Missouri's Molly Dyer will take care of the drumming herself, along with the dirty, slashing bottleneck guitar work and harrowing, hell-hound taunting yelps and withering yowls she coaxes from her vocal cords. She negotiates blues as ravaged and gritty as a back-country road on her latest album, Folk Blues and Booze, which kicks off with a killer a cappella version of Mississippi Fred McDowell's "When the Train Come Along." (Photo by Philippe Erard)
Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m. Starts: Dec. 16. Continues through Dec. 17, 2011