The Willies bring their version of Bessie Smith meets The Clash to The Black Rabbit the first Thursday of every month (usually)! There’s Dave Willie (Committee for Public Safety) fronting on bass. and Jen Jones,(The Camaros) fronting on piano. With the Flannery O’Conner styled Jeremiah Cline, on banjo, this 7 piece New Orleans inspired ‘horn band’  brings old-timey busking inside.  Expect energetic, muscular, rollicking, original music, peppered with Trad Jazz, Blues, and Oi style gang vocals.

The Willies are Nashville based roots artists conjuring the spirit of that time before bordello jazz & dirty fingernail blues were the background music for baristas and doggy bakeries. But as veterans of the American underground, the Willies aren’t interested in reenacting the rough and tumble legacy of 20’s swing & blues... they embody that energy. And these genres are only starting points... vintage bottles to contain several lifetimes of experience in the Jazz, Blues, Punk, and Americana underground.