At long last, Houston Jones returns to the Freight stage! Audience members are advised to bring along personal fire extinguishers as this quintet of musical veterans ignites the evening with their sizzling, eclectic mixture of originals and original interpretations of grassroots americana music.

Houston Jones features the highwire left-handed upside down guitar wizardry of former Waybacks and Hearts on Fire guitarist Glenn Houston and the whiskey-cured honky tonk vocals of Louisiana-born Travis Jones. Add to the equation Chris Kee (Peter Rowan, Norah Jones, the Waybacks) on bass, cello, and guitar; Peter Tucker (formerly of the Waybacks) on percussion; and Henry Salvia (the Johnny Nocturne Band) on keyboards and accordion, and you have a group that can comfortably embrace musical styles from bluegrass, country, folk, and gospel to blues, Texas swing, and jazz, and barely break a sweat—unlike their audience.

Houston Jones' latest CD is last year's Calico Heart (Summerhill).