PATRICK SWEANY

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

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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.

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