Seth James Band

DOORS 12:00pm  •  ALL AGES

Seth James co-founded roots rock group The Departed with friend Cody Canada. Three years and two albums later, James returned to his solo career, simply because he missed playing his own sound he’d worked so hard to find. That self-assurance shapes his album Different Hat. Every one of the album’s covers reveals more of James’ quiet prowess as an interpreter. His "Ohoopee River Bottom Land" slinks all the way to country funk perfection, while his version of JJ Cale’s “Raising Cain”––a song that’s never been cut by anyone else, including Cale––features Lee Roy Parnell on slide guitar, as well as horns and plenty of swing.  James has spent his life discovering and proving what music can do, not just artistically, but when it comes to something as ordinary and universal as Saturday night.