JACK OBLIVIAN/ JOHN PAUL KEITH/ THE DIRTY STREETS
9:30 p.m., White Water Tavern. $7.

Today’s Memphis music scene doesn’t have anything on Little Rock save
size and a bunch of recording studios and the thrust of history and
tourists and — OK, so it’s got a few things. But I bet we can match
Memphis good band to good band without too much trouble. That said,
anytime Jack Oblivian and John Paul Keith come to town is cause for
celebration. The former might be the most important figure in the Bluff
City’s vibrant ’90s garage-rock revival for his work in The Compulsive
Gamblers and, especially, The Oblivians. Lately, he’s toured as Jack O
and the Tennessee Tearjerkers and put out blues and roots-tinged rock
‘n’ roll of the first order. John Paul Keith, surely you’ll remember
from his frequent visits, is a guitar whiz and golden-era of rock
revivalist (think: Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly), who’s pretty much a
guaranteed party starter. This go-round, they’re joined by The Dirty
Streets, an up-and-coming Memphis act that did some national dates with
Lucero last fall. Keith predicts the rockers will go over “VERY well” at
White Water.

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