Cody Brooks
Wed, Jul 05
|Memphis
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 7pm Doors $10 ADV / $12 DOS


Time & Location
Jul 05, 2023, 7:00 PM
Memphis, 3210 Old Hernando Rd, Memphis, TN 38116, USA
About the event
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 7pm Doors $10 ADV / $12 DOS Cody Brooks
Gutbucket blues. Gypsy jazz. Back porch rock & roll. Cody Brooks plays it all, whipping up a raw, rootsy racket with help from a 1929 B&J Victoria parlor guitar and a voice that's as wild and roughhewn as the Tennessee backwoods.
The music all started 20 minutes outside of Nashville, where Brooks' childhood home was filled with the sounds of the nearby Marrowbone Creek and his parents' 78 rpm record collection. He listened to it all: Tommy Dorsey, Robert Johnson, Hank Snow, Son House, Jimmy Hendrix. Brooks picked up the guitar as a teenager and began traveling, too, spending time in Oregon and the southwest before Nashville's music scene lured him back home. There, before he could legally drink, he started playing gigs at the blues bars downtown, tossing in his own songs between covers by R&B singers and Delta…