Thursday’s concert picks – Bill Callahan, Big Sandy and more tonight around Baton Rouge

Tonight features a slate terrific shows. Top-flight songwriter Bill Callahan performs an early show at Spanish Moon, and Mud and Water hosts a Rockabilly blowout with Big Sandy and The Fly Rite Boys along with Gal Holiday from New Orleans and local product Ben Bell.

Up and comers Sons of Fathers play at Chelsea’s Thursday along with Betsy Badwater and Denton Hatcher and The Soapbox Blues. That third band is made of local boys who will be hitting the road supporting The Sons on a southeastern run over the next few weeks.

Sons of Fathers are based out of Austin and have attracted national attention with their debut LP Burning Days, which Rolling Stone called “wide open roots and folk rock” and NPR praised as an “impossible-to-define stew of country, folk, rock and gospel.” The group possesses two songwriters and vocalists in guitarist Paul Cauthen and bassist David Beck. The duo’s voices intertwine so naturally that it would be easy to assume they are related by blood. Despite this comfort level, Beck and Cauthen have only been playing and writing together for a couple years, and are still in their mid-twenties. Considering what they have done together in such a short time, the pair and band are certainly ones to watch as they set out to conquer the country in the coming months, but you can see them here first.