By Stuart Munro Globe correspondent,Updated May 17, 2024, 7:54 a.m.
CHARLEY CROCKETT Every time that Jukebox Charley makes a visit to these parts, you can bet that he’s released another new album, and maybe more than one. Sure enough, he released a live album last year and just put out “$10 Cowboy,” which puts a little soul in his throwback country. Kelsey Waldon opens the show. June 5, 8 p.m. $40. Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach, N.H. 800-653-8000, ticketmaster.com
TONY TRISCHKA One of the greatest bluegrass banjo players of all time pays tribute to the banjo player GOAT via his star-studded new album, “Earl Jam!,” and a tour that celebrates the album and its subject with a crack outfit in Michael Daves, Jared Engel, and Brittany Haas. June 8, 8 p.m. $30. Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Cambridge. 617-492-7679, passim.org
KYSHONA On her latest album, “Legacy,” Nashville’s Kyshona applies her dynamic mix of folk, rock, gospel, and blues to look back and ahead at the same time: by capturing her family’s history and stories in song, her hope is to preserve that history and those stories for those who come after her. June 15, 8 p.m. $22. Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Cambridge. 617-492-7679, passim.org
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ESTHER ROSE/DYLAN EARL This bill offers a dynamite double dose of country. Esther Rose’s has gradually evolved to a version flecked with other flavors. As for Earl’s, he has this to say: “I’m from where I woke up this morning. I write the songs that come to mind and struggle with the ones that don’t. I’m here to shoot you straight, although sometimes I fire from the hip.” June 18, 7:30 p.m. $20-$24. The Cut, 177 Main St., Gloucester. 978-515-0000, thecutlive.com
HALEY HEYNDERICKX You might think that Haley Heynderickx is simply a purveyor of a spare folk music with delicate fingerstyle guitar and mournful vocals, until the trombone shows up or she escalates to bursts of sonic furor mid-song, and it becomes something more than that. June 21, 8 p.m. $39.50. Groton Hill Music Center, 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton. 978-486-9524, grotonhill.org
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MAPACHE Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch finally make it to the area in support of last year’s “Swinging Stars,” which finds the pair adding drummer Steve Didelot to the band and bringing more of the personal voice of each to Mapache’s easygoing desert folk. June 28, 8 p.m. $20. Crystal Ballroom at the Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville. 800-653-8000, ticketmaster.com
ZACH TOP Tradition is apparently a moving target, at least in country music. Witness Zach Top’s stellar “Cold Beer & Country Music,” which is a thoroughgoing throwback to the likes of George . . . Strait, not Jones. “Sounds like the radio,” he sings on the album’s lead-off song, “back in 1994, you know.” I certainly do. June 27, 8:30 p.m. $18. The Sinclair, 52 Church St., Cambridge. 888-929-7849, axs.com
OUTLAW MUSIC FESTIVAL Willie Nelson’s package tour comes around again this year with some fire power. Along with the nonagenarian himself, it will feature a fellow traveler in the longevity stakes in Bob Dylan as well as a relative spring chicken in Robert Plant, in duo mode with Alison Krauss, and multi-faceted newcomer Celisse. July 2, 5 p.m. $67 and up. Xfinity Center, 885 S. Main St., Mansfield. livenation.com
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CHAPARELLE A band that is creating some buzz (enough to get them booked at Newport Folk this year) without having released a single thing, this new project brings together Zella Day and Jesse Woods with a view to hearkening back to sound and ambience of the golden age of male-female country duets. July 18, 8 p.m. $20-$25. 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth, N.H. 603-766-3330, 3sarts.org
BILLY STRINGS How to define the music that William Apostol, a.k.a. Billy Strings, makes? It’s bluegrass, for sure, but also not bluegrass; there’s respect for tradition, but an abiding willingness to push traditional forms to new places and meld in psychedelic forays, metal touches, and good old rock ‘n’ roll. One thing certainly defines his music; it is absolutely electric when he plays it live. July 30-31, 7:30 p.m. $49.50, $69.50. DCU Center, 50 Foster St., Worcester. 800-653-8000, ticketmaster.com
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