Upcoming events
Broadway in the Basin Presents Cirque Dreams Holidaze
Broadway in the Basin Presents Cirque Dreams Holidaze
Live Music with Flair: Matthew Marcus McDaniel
Live Music with Flair: Matthew Marcus McDaniel
Lone Star Brass Quintet - Basin Brass Christmas Bonanza
Lone Star Brass Quintet - Basin Brass Christmas Bonanza
First Friday
Join Odessa Arts & Downtown Odessa, Inc for our monthly First Friday ODTX! Stroll through Downtown Odessa from 6-9 PM and take in special events and offerings from merchants and retailers.
Live Music with Flair: Sam Barlow & His True Blue Band
Live Music with Flair: Sam Barlow & His True Blue Band
Live Music with Flair: Matthew Marcus McDaniel
Live Music with Flair: Matthew Marcus McDaniel
First Friday
Join Odessa Arts & Downtown Odessa, Inc for our monthly First Friday ODTX! Stroll through Downtown Odessa from 6-9 PM and take in special events and offerings from merchants and retailers.
Jazz Nights at Flair: Emily Baker & Dan Ferguson
Jazz Nights at Flair: Emily Baker & Dan Ferguson
The Wallflowers
Rock ‘n’ roll is often hard to define, or even to find, in these fractured musical times. But to paraphrase an old saying, you know it when you hear it.
And you always hear it with the Wallflowers. For the past 30 years, the Jakob Dylan-led act has stood as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands – a unit dedicated to and continually honing a sound that meshes timeless songwriting and storytelling with a hard-hitting and decidedly modern musical attack. That signature style has been present through the decades, baked into the grooves of smash hits like 1996’s Bringing Down the Horse as well as more recent and exploratory fare like 2012’s Glad All Over.
Good band name aside, that life’s work continues with Exit Wounds, the brand-new Wallflowers studio offering. The collection marks the first new Wallflowers material since Glad All Over. And while the wait has been long, the much-anticipated record finds the band’s signature sound – lean, potent and eminently entrancing – intact, even as Dylan surrounds himself with a fresh cast of musicians.
Which, the front man is quick to point out, is not all that unusual. “The Wallflowers has always been a vehicle for me to make great rock ‘n’ roll records,” he says. “And sometimes the lineup that makes the record transfers over into touring, and sometimes it doesn’t. But my intention is always to make the Wallflowers record I want to make, using the musicians I have beside me.”