Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys
With Pupy Costello & the New Hiram Kings.
High Noon Saloon 701A E. Washington Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Joshua Black Wilkins
Chuck Mead
Chuck Mead helped the Americana genre coalesce in the mid-1990s with the band BR5-49, which played roots music with rock attitude and scored such hits as “Cherokee Boogie” and “Even If It’s Wrong.” He’s released three solo albums since 2009, the most recent being 2014’s excellent Free State Serenade. Opener Pupy Costello & the New Hiram Kings bring vintage honky-tonk songs and just the right amount of hokum to get the crowd drinkin’ and dancin’ at this early show.