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Crosstown Arts presents Dead Soldiers: Sad Songs and Story Time in The Green Room.
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Friday, June 21, 2024
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20
Dead Soldiers is an eight-piece band from Memphis, Tennessee, whose eclectic compositions feature a rock’n’roll core that lifts five-part vocal harmonies, horns and strings to create a wall of sound. Building on the musical traditions of the Delta and the melting pot aesthetic that first made Memphis the home of rock and roll, their music is at once irreverent and uniquely American. While firmly rooted in the modern urban South, they draw heavily from the inspiration of a range of artists: Tom Waits to The Band, John Prine and Bob Dylan to Frank Zappa and Randy Newman. Like Dead Soldiers, they’re all artists who refuse to be easily classified. With humor, cynicism and an underlying foundation of humanity, Dead Soldiers’ songs root for the underdog while skewering the hypocrisy of the post-modern media landscape.
