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Shawn James "FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN TOUR"
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 8:00 PM · Exit/In, Midtown
The Read
Shawn James works the darker end of folk and blues — stomping arrangements, minor keys, and a low, enormous voice that could carry a room without amplification. The material leans mythic: sin, water, retribution, the standard furniture of American murder ballads, delivered without a wink. It works because he commits to it completely. Exit/In is a long narrow rock club on Elliston Place with decades of ghosts in it and a stage that suits performers who plant their feet and stay there. The danger with this kind of music is theatricality tipping over into costume. The best version leaves a song unaccompanied long enough for the room to go silent, then brings the band back in. Tuesday, no distractions.
The Room
Exit/In
2208 Elliston Pl
Opened October 23, 1971. Jimmy Buffett auditioned on the half-finished stage and was hired on the spot. Steve Martin played here so often in the mid-70s that he credits those nights as making him 'really, really funny.'
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Shape The Night
Before
Martin's Bar-B-Que JointPat Martin's whole-hog tradition from Henderson, Tennessee. Same operation as the original Nolensville spot. Brisket, ribs, pulled pork on Elliston Place — the pre-show logic if you're headed to Exit/In.
Show: Shawn James "FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN TOUR" at 8:00 PM