Roky Erickson
Cat's Cradle 300 E Main St, Carrboro, North Carolina 27510
Across the long, strange trip of his rock ’n’ roll career,seventy-one-year-old guitarist Roky Erickson has been a lot of things: a pioneer (of psych-rock, with the cult favorite band 13th Floor Elevators), a burnout (his tragic personal life has been marked by legendary bouts with mythic drug abuse and stretches in maximum security state hospitals), and a heroic comeback story (a career renaissance in the new millennium culminating in 2010’s revered True Love Cast Out All Evil). He may have lost his soul to rock ’n’ roll,but Erickson, unlike so many similarly troubled souls, was able to get it back.—Patrick Wall
Tickets $25-$28