DaSlobGuide: More of 2008's great Southern summer concert dates

Continuing our summer series highlighting recent review subjects who are set to appear in concert tours and some funky festivals across the South in the coming months. Here's a quick look at the shows, with links to our thoughts on each:

DELFEAYO MARSALIS, various dates including Snug Harbor, June 8, New Orleans: Delfeayo's trombone is, in many ways, more articulate than his famous sibling's trumpet -- simply because it's so nimble. Marsalis' solos are, by turns, baffling and ingratiating -- all with one tube slide.
(504) 949-0696; or www.snugjazz.com

COWBOY MOUTH, various dates including the Peabody Hotel's Rivertop, June 13, Little Rock, Ark.: Emerged in the early 1990s as a rugged, but distinctly popular rock alternative to the typical fiddle-and-rubboard fare associated with Louisiana music. This New Orleans-based group has likely managed such remarkable longevity because it remains capable of spare and emotionally direct work, too.
501-399-8059; or www.rivertopparty.com/default.aspx.

HENRY ROLLINS, Tipitina's Uptown, June 25, New Orleans: Ex-screamer with the seminal screamer Black Flag, he is now almost assuredly rock's first post-punk hyphenate: tattooed book writer, spoken-word performer, Lollapalooza alum, cable TV show host.
(504) 895-8477; or www.ticketweb.com.

DOYLE BRAMHALL II, Antone's, July 11-12, Austin, Texas.: Bramhall has been around so much fame and combined with his songwriting and guitar talents, it's downright shocking that he hasn't become more than an underground hero himself.
www.antones.net.

JAMES HUNTER, Antone's, July 16, Austin Texas.: A remarkably soulful presence in the style of Jackie Wilson, Van Morrison, Ray Charles and (primarily) Sam Cooke, Hunter is refreshingly retro, not in the sense of simply recalling the familiar but of taking those expectations to a new place.
www.antones.net.

MARK KNOPFLER of Dire Straits, various dates including Chastain Park Amphitheatre, July 29, Atlanta, Ga.: His playing is expansive, yet particular. Stretching out into jazz innovation, Knopfler (pictured above) oftens widens a tune's perspective -- and, similarly, our own.
www.ticketmaster.com.

CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH, Live at the Garden, Aug. 9, Memphis, Tenn.: These folk-rock sexagenarians haven't stopped playing the hits from the flower-power era that have rightfully put them near the top of the heap among that generation's singer-songwriters. Not even close. It seems like every time you turn around, Crosby, Still and Nash (and sometimes Young) are touring in one configuration or another.
www.ticketmaster.com

Here's a link to previous entries in this series.