Boot Juice

The Read

Boot Juice come in on a bill that suggests groove-forward roots music rather than anything precious. Without a track record to lean on, the honest read is this: Dee’s books carefully, and a Sunday headline slot there is a vote of confidence from people who hear a lot of bands. Go in curious rather than certain. Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge is a low-ceilinged room in Madison with vinyl booths, strong pours, and a crowd that ranges from retirees to people who drove out from East Nashville. Sunday nights there are unhurried in a way weekend shows never are. Seven o’clock, home by eleven, no ceremony involved.

The Room

Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge

102 E Palestine Ave

Amy found a decaying old beer joint in then-undiscovered Madison — plywood floors, a back room behind a donut shop and sex toy store — and kept everything that made it weird.