Music notes: Hodgepodge of good stuff this weekend

Here's a few blurbs of note musically for our area this weekend:

SOME OF ATHENS MOST DEVOTED audiophiles will be showing off their record collections Saturday afternoon on WOUB 1340 AM and online at www.woub.org.

Bryan Gibson, Chris Pyle and Michael Tedesco, all musicians in their own right, will spin favorite tunes from 3-6 p.m. Gibson is also program manager of WOUB-AM,

According to a note Gibson posted on Facebook, the three "will dig deep into their record collections" for a round-robin style show.

Each host will get a turn playing a song. "Expect everything from REO to R.E.M., the Jackson 5 to Jandek, Gram Parsons to the Groundhogs," the Facebook note said.

The show will be available on a number of formats in addition to the radio show and the mp3 stream on www.woub.org. It also will be available on iPhone or iPad with the free Public Radio app and via iTunes Radio in the College/University section. "We'll be on Facebook, possibly Twitter. Give us enough notice and we'll set up a telegraph for Morse Code," the FB note said.

Tedesco will be on air playing music before the three-hour round robin, from noon to 3 p.m.

JACKIE O'S BREWERY IS FEATURING a celebration of songwriters Friday night, with a summer songwriter showcase. Colleen Carow of Broken Ring organized the evening that will feature top-notch songwriters of local, regional and national repute.

Here's how the schedule has been set so far:

8:30-9:15 p.m.: Colleen Carow and Leah Nairn, both mainstays on the Athens music scene, playing in the round.

9:15-10 p.m.: J.D. Hutchison, legendary locally based bluegrass/folk/blues singer-songwriter-guitarist.

10-11:30 p.m.: Regionally renowned singer-songwriter Todd Burge, along with local songwriter extraordinaire Bruce Dalzell and respected former bandleader (Stella) and singer-songwriter Laura Nadeau, playing in the round.

11:30 p.m.-1 a.m.: OU alums Misty Perholtz and Michelle Hemmer, playing in the round. Perholtz fronts the Cincinnati band The Newbees and also runs the open-mic night at Newport, Ky.'s storied Southgate House (just south of Cincinnati). Hemmer of Nashville has had songs featured in numerous TV shows including Nickelodeon's "Zoe 101" with Jamie Lynn Spears, and Nickelodeon's "iCarly."

Carow explained that she put the show together after Perholtz and Hemmer got in touch about coming through Athens on tour and wanting to do a gig together. "I thought, why not make it something extra-special combine some great touring talent with our local gems, to really showcase songwriting?"

The connective tissue in the showcase is songwriting, she confirmed. "I think it's songwriting that connects all the musicians a love of really good songs, the acoustic guitar, listening to and learning from others, being a part of something bigger truly supporting others," Carow said. "(There will be a) really exciting range of experience and style will be on stage."

She added that she's thrilled to get veteran musicians involved. "The veteran players are some of the most humble, down-to-earth, supportive musicians around here, and that's why they're on the bill," she said. "They're also people I've been fortunate to come to know in the last few years one way or another, people who have had an influence on me."

Carow said she'd love to make these showcases annual or more frequent events.

The major bonus of the showcase, she added, was J.D. Hutchison's agreeing to participate. "I'm a huge fan of J.D. Hutchison. When he said HEwas in, it was the icing on the cake."

POMEROY'S POPULAR ANNUAL music series, "Rhythm on the River," begins Friday night at 8 with Australian blues star Geoff Achison & the Soul Diggers. Sponsored by the Pomeroy Blues & Jazz Society, the free live-music series runs every Friday through Aug. 12 (except for July 29).

Other acts slated to play the outdoors Riverside Amphitheatre include Albert "the kid" Castiglia (July 1), Randy McAllister (July 8), the Gas House Gorillas (July 15), Scott Holt Band (July 22), Eden Brent (Aug. 5) and Biscuit & the Mix (Aug. 12).

If the weather doesn't cooperate, the music will move into the nearby Court Street Grill.

The reason there's no Rhythm on the River scheduled for July 29 is because that date falls in the middle of the annual Big Bend Blues Bash weekend, which runs from July 28-30. More on that later.

SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE are bringing their "lustful rockabilly" (WNYC radio) to the Casa Cantina on Friday.

VH1 just highlighted the band at No. 3 in their feature on the Top Ten Bonnaroo Acts with the Fastest-Growing Fanbases, and Paste recently gushed that "Ford's throwback vocals coupled with her band's neo-rockabilly grooves make for one heck of a show." Her debut LP "Dirty Radio" is an absolutely invigorating blast of retro-leaning rockabilly/punk/jazz. If that's not enough, according to press materials, Avett Brothers and the Decemberists are outspoken fans.