Jason White & David Mead with Special Guest Daniel Tashian

The Read

This is the pop-literate, melody-first end of Nashville writing rather than the country-radio end. David Mead has a long history of making finely constructed guitar-pop; Daniel Tashian is a writer and producer with a hand in a great deal of what comes out of this town; Jason White brings the songwriter’s side of a career spent playing. Put them together on a small stage and the between-song context becomes as interesting as the material. The Basement holds very few people and has no separation between stage and floor. A seven o’clock start means an early, seated-adjacent, listening-room atmosphere rather than a bar show. Expect casual accompaniment, some cross-pollination, and a couple of songs performed in a stripped form because that is what the room supports.

The Room

The Basement

1604 8th Ave S

The smaller, original Basement — a low-ceiling room under what used to be Grimey's on 8th Avenue, where songwriter, roots, and rock bills feel thirty feet from the stage.