City and Colour

Get your Kleenex handy, y’all, because this show packs an emotional punch, and you’re going to want something to stop the massive sob hemorrhaging you’ll be pouring out. Stew on that metaphor for a few. Point being, If there’s one thing singer-songwriter Dallas Green knows how to do, it’s cut a listener to the core with honest and raw lyricism pulled from the proverbial diary pages. Or … from whatever his preferred masculine form of innermost thought cataloging might be. Despite his style of seemingly personal narrative storytelling, Green writes songs that remain universally relatable and doesn’t shy away from topics that can hit uncomfortably close to home, both for himself and an audience. But that’s what makes Green unique, that he’s unapologetic and unhesitating when it comes to investing in his music. And whether he’s delicately crooning with only his acoustic guitar in hand or howling with a full band backing, he’ll sing every song like it’s full of his last living notes. - Brien Overly