“On Friday, July 8, RiverLink presents its third RiverMusic concert for 2016, a special evening with three of the most talented, not to mention rowdiest, singer-songwriters working in Nashville today.  So don’t come expecting and evening of quiet folk songs, as all three artists are capable of kicking up a storm of rockin’ Americana. Opener Tim Easton has spent twenty years performing in bands and solo and can rock hard in either mode.  Aaron Lee Tasjan and the Stoned Faces offer an especially down and dirty, road weary blend of songwriting craft and outlaw edge, reflecting Tasjan’s tenure as a guitar player with the legendary New York Dolls. He’s got a sense of humor, too.

Headlining is Patrick Sweany, an artist whose impressively rich songwriting and singing draw on the deep wells of Delta blues and Memphis soul. There are few artists around that conjure the South’s musical past and add an intensely modern edge as well as Sweany. Sweany also plays some mean blues guitar and his band knows how to up the ante. These guys should make a hot July night hotter.”