(Tractor) The namesakes of Townes Van Zandt’s “Loretta” and Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” may have had their own bones to pick, but they never got a chance to express them. Until now. Esmé Patterson‘s Woman to Woman imagines the responses of seven ladies immortalized in song, a clever idea that translates into a breezy little Americana album. With a delicate, warbling voice and pedal steel, the Paper Bird singer fills in details the originals left out—embodying Jolene telling Dolly that she should “never chase a man” and calling out Elvis Costello’s subtle slut-shaming of Alison with sassy lines like “I’ll take off a dress whenever I want to.” Local folk musicians Edmund Wayne, Led to Sea, and Paleo will join the bill alongside the Denver musician’s stories of spurned ladies. ROBIN EDWARDS
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The leader of enigmatic Pennsylvania psychedelic band Black Moth Super Rainbow uses the Tobacco alter ego to create more beat-oriented records that sound like Boards of Canada on stronger psilocybin. Still, you can hear BMSR’s trademark synth textures all over the Tobacco records: Think Bernie Worrell’s strident, strutting, and squirting keyboards on “Flash Light,” but fried to an alien frequency. On Tobacco’s first two albums, Fucked Up Friends and Maniac Meat, he twists every tone and tune into slurred, Techicolor™ daymares and mutant funk that could work as backdrops for Venusian rappers. The title “Nuclear Waste Aerobics” sums up the vibe of this phase. His new full-length for Ghostly International, Ultima II Massage, finds Tobacco slightly cleaning up his filthy production, but it still sounds like a magic-mushroom party in your third ear. With Stargazer Lillies and Oscillator Bug. Neumos, 8 pm, $15 adv, 21+. DAVE SEGAL
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