Take the jump for this weekend’s live music break down. You kids be safe out there.

Mucho take it easy.

Asheville
Friday and Saturday - Vortex Music Festival

Austin
Thursday - Alejandro Escovedo/The Mother Truckers (Continental Club), Band of Heathens (Saxon Pub)
Friday - Alejandro Escovedo/The Mother Truckers (Continental Club), Patrice Pike (Nutty Brown Cafe), Matt Wertz (Stubbs), James McMurtry (Threadgills)
Saturday - Alejandro Escovedo (Auditorium Shores), Muchos Backflips (Flamingo Cantina)

Atlanta
Thursday - Merle Haggard (Cobb Energy Perf. Arts)
Friday - Emmylou Harris/Sam Bush (Chastain Park)
Sunday - REO Speedwagon/Joan Jett (Chastain Park)

Bayfield, WI
Thursday - Willie Nelson (Big Top Chautauqua)

Carrboro/Chapel Hill/Durham
Friday - Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band (Music on the Lawn)
Monday - King Khan & the Shrines (Local 506)

Charlotte
Friday - East Coast Dirt (Double Door Inn)
Tuesday - Dave Matthews Band/Michael Franti (Verizon Wireless)

Chicago
Thursday - Dickey Betts & Great Southern (Bevery Arts Center)
Friday - Chaka Kahn/Angie Stone (Taste of Chicago), Kevin Costner and Modern West (HOB), Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (Lakeshore Theater), Jakob Dylan (Metro)
Saturday - Stevie Wonder (Taste of Chicago), Signal Path (Kinetic Playground), Uncle Boogie Pants (Lucille’s)
Tuesday - Fareed Haque/Garaj Mahal (Taste of Chicago)
Wednesday - Tom Petty/Steve Winwood (United Center)

Council Bluffs, IA
Friday - Willie Nelson (Harrah’s Casino & Hotel)

Dallas
Thursday - Bob Schneider (Belmont Hotel)
Friday - Bob Schneider (Granada Theater)
Saturday - Stone Temple Pilots/Black Francis (Nokia Live)

Denver
Thursday - Crosby, Stills & Nash (Wells Fargo Theater)
Friday - Col. Bruce/Jerry Joseph (Cervantes’ Materpiece), Bobby Lee Rogers & the Codetalkers (Quixote’s True Blue), Widespread Panic (Red Rocks)
Saturday - Gnarls Barkley (Coors Field), Bobby Lee Rogers & the Codetalkers (Quixote’s True Blue), Widespread Panic (Red Rocks)
Sunday - Greyhounds (Dulcinea’s 100th Monkey), Widespread Panic (Red Rocks)
Tuesday - Snoop Dogg/311 (Red Rocks)

Ft. Worth
Friday - Muchos Backflips! (The Moon)
Saturday - Hootie and the Blowfish (Billy Bobs)

Houston
Thursday - Greyhounds (Continental Club)
Saturday - Stone Temple Pilots/Black Francis (Woodlands)

Knoxville, TN
Sunday - Tom Waits (Civic Coliseum)

Milwaukee
Thursday - Stevie Wonder (Marcus Theater)
Friday - Rush (Marcus Amphitheater)
All Week - Summerfest

New York, NY
Thursday - Soulive (poisson rouge), Theivery Corp (Central Park SummerStage)
Friday - Cold War Kids (Prospect Park Bandshell)
Saturday - The Black Angels/The Warlocks (Southpaw), Benevento/Russo Duo (The Yard)

Odessa, Texas
Saturday - Willie Nelson (Dos Amigos)

Raleigh
Thursday - Will Hoge (Pour House)
Friday - Yonder Mountain/Keller Williams (Regency Park-Cary), Dirty Dozen Brass Band (Lincoln)
Sunday - Jeff Sipe (Lincoln Theater)
Wednesday - Dave Matthews Band/Michael Franti (Walnut Creek)

Richmond, VA
Thursday - Richmond Afrobeat Movement (Emilios Tapas Bar)
Friday - DJ Le Spam & the Spam Allstars (Brown’s Island)
Monday - Burning Brides (The Canal Club)

San Antonio
Friday - Stone Temple Pilots/Black Francis (AT&T Center)

Santa Barbara
Thursday - Snoop Dogg (Santa Barbara Bowl)

St. Louis
Friday - Tom Waits (Fox)
Tuesday - Modest Mouse (The Pageant)
Wednesday - Garaj Mahal (Lucas School House Music Hall)

1. on 27 Jun 2008 at 3:25 pm#1Tom

   Also Modest Mouse/DDBB on Sunday in Charlottesville