Hank and Her Ponies—formerly sharing a name with the eternally excellent Stones song “Dead Flowers,” and including former collaborators with the erstwhile Blank Tapes—do honky-tonk as shocked back to life by psychedelia, and if you’re thinking about those Mazzy Star songs about ghosts and highways, then you’re thinking exactly right. Singer Lauren Chanel Cobb has that certain Hope Sandoval-esque catch in her voice and the music floats in clouds of smoke around her as she sings. Some of the songs slide toward the traditional, of course, since this is a band with their feet firmly planted in the good ol’ dirt, but it’s the paisley-underground-ified songs like “Chantys” and “Hey Little Baby” that really take flight. Be ready to get a little bit heavy.
Wed., Oct. 1, 8 p.m., 2014
