Blackberry Smoke/North Mississippi Allstars
A double-bill of acclaimed Southern rock groups, Blackberry Smoke and North Mississippi Allstars, are set to play Bert s Back Porch in Port Charlotte. The Atlanta-based Blackberry Smoke has scored No. 1 Billboard country albums such as Holding All the Roses and Like an Arrow, and plan to release their new record You Hear Georgia next month. North Mississippi Allstars, hailing from their namesake state and featuring brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson, have earned multiple Grammy nominations, most recently in this year s Best Contemporary Blues Album category for Up and Rolling, with guests like Mavis Staples, Jason Isbell and Sarasota native Duane Betts. 6 p.m. Thursday (April 29); Bert s Back Porch, 2208 El Jobean Road, Port Charlotte; $40-$50; freshtix.com/events/blackberrysmoke
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Damon Fowler Band
Englewoods on Dearborn, a restaurant that also hosts music by national and local blues acts, is set to feature Florida s own Damon Fowler this week. The guitarist, singer-songwriter and former Anna Maria Island resident released his last album “The Whiskey Bayou Session” on Tab Benoit’s Whiskey Bayou Records and plans this year to release his new record Alafia Moon, sharing a name with the Hillsborough County river and community. Fowler has also played in the Dickey Betts Band, and in the supergroup Southern Hospitality with Grammy-nominated pianist Victor Wainwright and fellow Floridian bluesman J.P. Soars. 7 p.m. today; Englewoods on Dearborn, 362 W. Dearborn St., Englewood; $7; 941-475-7501; englewoodsondearborn.com