A gifted solo and group musician whose talents led Rock and Blues Muse to laud her as "an accomplished guitar virtuoso with a voice that rivals the best," Ana Popovic headlines a special concert event in the Rhythm City Casino Blues Night, the Davenport venue's July 15 event showcasing the gifts of the Yugoslavian native whom American Blues Scene deemed a "blues-rock guitar goddess."

Low, July 15

Touring in support of their most recent, critically acclaimed album Hey What, married musicians Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker bring their indie-rock outfit Low to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on July 15, the duo's lauded vocal harmonies inspiring music journalist and historian Denise Sullivan writes to call them "as chilling as anything Gram [Parsons] and Emmylou [Harris] ever conspired on - though that's not to say it's country-tinged, just straight from the heart."

A celebrated Virginia string outfit currently enjoying its 23rd year of professional performance, the country, folk, and Americana musicians of the Hackensaw Boys play Davenport's Raccoon Motel on July 14, the group's talents having inspired Pitchfork to rave, "The band infuses their grassy tornado with brazen punk attitude and catchy pop structure, while simultaneously remaining vehemently sincere."

Winners of the Quad-City Times' 2017 Reader's Choice Award for “Best Local Band” and one of the most successful music acts to emerge from the area in recent years, the AC/DC tribute artists of Electric Shock headline a July 16 Summer 2022 Music Lineup concert at Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood, with the night boasting hits from a classic-rock repertoire that includes Billboard chart-toppers Black Ice, Power Up, Ballbreaker, and 1980's seminal Back in Black.

Whenever you hear someone shout out “Sweet Home Alabama!” or, more likely, “Free Bird!” when a band asks the crowd for requests, you have one group to thank for the songs' continued popularity: the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Southern- and country-rock legends whose “Big Wheels Keep on Turnin'” tour lands at Moline's TaxSlayer Center on July 16.

A legendary country-rock outfit that has been performing, in various iterations, since its origins in Long Beach, California, in 1966, the Grammy-winning Nitty Gritty Dirt Band headlines a July 14 concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, the group's chart-topping hits on Billboard's country charts including “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream),” “Modern Day Romance,” and “Fishin' in the Dark.”

Now touring the country in their incredible 40th year of professional performance, the hard rockers and glam-metal musicians of L.A. Gun play East Moline venue the Rust Belt in support of their 2021 album Checkered Past, a recording that led Blues Rock Review to rave, "It takes a special band to maintain a consistent sound without sounding stale."

Performing in support of his most recent album Intuition, Grammy-nominated, chart-topping country-music superstar Billy Currington headlines a July 9 concert at East Moline venue the Rust Belt, the artist revered for such number-one hits as "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right," "Good Directions," "People Are Crazy," and "That's How Country Boys Roll."

Although currently touring without two of its longtime members – bassist vocalist Josh Gilbert, who left the group in May, and drummer Jordan Mancino, who departed in early June – the Grammy-nominated metalcore musicians of As I Lay Dying will surely show no signs of slowing down during their July 5 set at East Moline venue the Rust Belt, touring the nation now in support of the band's most recent album Shaped by Fire.

A consistently popular and lauded presence on the Midwestern touring circuit, beloved folk singer/songwriter Cody Diekhoff – better known by his recording alias Chicago Farmer – plays a July 10 concert at Donald J's Poor House Tap in Eldridge with his ensemble The Field Notes, the artist a soulful crooner and guitarist who inspired No Depression to rave, “If the Midwest is looking for a voice, the search is over.”

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