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Joshua Black Wilkins

American Aquarium

Rolling Stone calls American Aquarium frontman BJ Barham a “Southern Springsteen,” and it’s easy to hear why. For Lamentations, the band’s Shooter Jennnings-produced 2020 album, Barham took influences from the Old Testament Book of Lamentations and wrote about a broken America and, in his words, “all the things that lead a human being to doubt something.” To counteract that somberness, the band earlier this year released a surprise album of fun covers featuring songs by such ’90s country favorites as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Faith Hill and Toby Keith. American Aquarium formed in 2006 and proves that alt-country (or whatever you want to call it) is still alive and kicking. Katie Pruitt — whose 2020 debut album, Expectations, explores the struggles of growing up gay in the Christian south — will open the show.