Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM
Gold—Diggers, Los Angeles
City Slickers #2 ~ It's River's Birthday! Featuring the Silver City House Band, composed of all yer favorite pals. **Logan Shook**, singer songwriter of famed local honky tonk outfit Sweet Nothin's will take the stage. **Cheryy Garland** will do his vintage croon then DJ the afterparty. Special guest and critically acclaimed filmmaker **Dennis Hauck** will be joining the fold. In 2022, Hauck released his first single, the outlaw country tribute “Halyna Hutchins.” From there, he has recorded a set of songs in Nashville, and toured across the country, playing acoustic sets following repertory screenings of his 2015 film Too Late. Hauck is now releasing a series of singles, including “Girl From Cedar City” b/w “Four Rides.” The songs on **Spencer Thomas**’ new LP, The Joke of Life, (out now), much like a good joke, are many-layered. His talent is immediately obvious, with sleek composition and production throughout. There’s a nostalgic, everyman flair to his music that doesn’t hang on the influences of the past, but uses them as a guiding light to elevate his voice. **Sam Kogon** describes his new approach as that of an “Upstate country rockabilly crooner,” Kogon lived and played in New York for many years, but now spends more time in LA. He has always skewed a little older in his sensibilities, from an early affinity for Chopin and the Beatles to the session work he’s done with Al Jardine of The Beach Boys, fronting the 1960's revived baroque pop group The Left Banke ("Walk Away Renee"), and songwriting with Grammy Award nominee Patty Smyth. He has recorded two albums of psych-adjacent power pop, including 2016’s standout Psychic Tears (Beyond Beyond is Beyond), which was co-produced by Kogon and Sam Owens (aka Sam Evian) and features a duet with Frankie Cosmos on the track "I Was Always Talking." \*\* Don't miss this one if you can help it