MKE Overdose Prevention will be tabling outside to provide education on opioid overdose, fentanyl/xylazine testing strips, Narcan nasal spray and other harm reduction supplies to anyone who may want them.
It’s obvious listening to Sarah Shook and the Disarmers’ clear-eyed, biting, and unafraid songs that integrity is the most important thing to the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, country-punk outfit. “A lot of artists are in this industry for fame, recognition, and money but those things don’t mean anything to me,” says bandleader River Shook. “Songwriting is it for me. It’s the only real healthy coping mechanism I’ve ever had. It’s life-saving. I don’t care about any superficial things when I’m making a record.” On their resonant fourth album Revelations, produced by Shook and out March 29 via Thirty Tigers, these raw and resilient tracks come first. Throughout, Shook’s deft storytelling documents regular people getting by and keeping on, all presented without filter or pretension.
A bit Andy Kaufman, a little Orville Peck, a hint of Father John Misty, Dale Hollow possesses “a
fascinating combination of performance and purveyed authenticity,” as the lifestyle magazine
Mundane once posited, while also noting that “no other country music artist has ever claimed to
be the best, except for Dale Hollow.”
