Austinist Show Preview: Leatherbag @ Hole in the Wall

What would you get if you snatched up Bob Dylan while he was sitting backstage at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, strapped him to the rather large hood of a Chevrolet K20 pickup and drove through the deserts and ranches of the Southwest finally making your way across to the southern states and stopping for an extra long time in Tennessee? What if he soaked it all up and adopted a little more of the sounds, culture and twang? Well, he’d be a lot like Randy ‘Bag’ Reynolds and company. Saturday night at Hole in the Wall you’ll be able to make your own assessment when locals Leatherbag make their way to the stage sometime around midnight. Between tunes of cello, slide guitar and smokey vocals and others full of fuzzy guitar and brash rock and roll sounds, there exists a captivating balance of sentiment and flat-out fun.

The Bellfuries rock the shimmering, classic pop sound with a hefty helpin’ of rockabilly, and they do it quite well. There are several people eagerly awaiting their upcoming album, which has been finished for quite some time and is just awaiting label finalization. Opening the show is the folk-rock of Austin’s Mike Nicolai as he pulls from an expansive catalog stretching back to the late '80s.