Roadhouse Essentials

Somewhere along the mythical American highway there's a bar—a dim, dusty, welcoming place that exists outside the specifics of time or locale. Inside that bar is a stage. On that stage is a band. And that band is here: It's Willie Nelson and Charlie Daniels' outlaw country; The Black Crowes and The Black Keys' boogie rock; Albert Collins and Freddie King's guitar-gunning blues; Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers' Southern-fried soul. It's music about dancing and drinking and loving and losing. And properly deployed, it never fails to move.