The Wallflowers

CRITIC'S PICK:
Mon. May 4
The Wallflowers, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Buckhead Theater - Jacob Dylan used to have a band called The Wallflowers. Now he has virtually unknown backup musicians fulfilling that job. The group is whoever he says is in it. Regardless, tonight's show features full performances of 1996s Bringing Down the Horse, the outfit's biggest hit album and, more interestingly and unusually, Tom Petty's Long After Dark. Petty and the younger Dylan were such good friends that he asked Jacob to induct him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, explaining that connection. This somewhat obscures that The Wallflowers' most recent release, 2021s Exit Wounds, and the four that came before it, didn't exactly set the charts on fire. Still, if you were a 99X fan 30 years ago, you heard Bringing Down's... songs on daily repeat, and will likely want to experience them performed again to relive those good old days. - Hal Horowitz