Top weekend show: Flatlanders at Old Town School of Folk Music
Flatlanders: Texas cranks out great songwriters with stunning regularity, but Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore are unbeatable as a collective. The Flatlanders put the alternative into alternative country in the early ‘70s – the humor, the metaphysics, the cosmic worldview – and their careers separately and together have lived up to that premise, 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday at Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Av., $38 and $34; oldtownschool.tix.com.
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