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Tickets are now on sale for blues legend Buddy Guy’s 2023 Damn Right Farewell Tour. It kicks off on February 17 in Rockford, IL, and includes stops in Texas, Indiana, Michigan, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, as well as two gigs in Toronto, Ontario. Guy will most likely be performing a number of songs from top-selling, brand new album The Blues Don’t Lie.

Yeah, I’ll Get Everything That I Want. Steve Barton and Dave Scheff from Translator recently finished recording a two-sided holiday single with help from Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellows. A Facebook post from Buck states the music will be available to stream soon, and hopefully be offered on colored vinyl in 2023.

The Man Who Fell to Earth: The Official Movie Adaptation hardcover graphic novel is now available from Amazon and other sites. It’s based on the 1976 film starring David Bowie and includes several never-before-seen photos. In other Bowie news, fans can pre-order A Divine Symmetry - An Alternative Journey Through Hunky Dory, which features 48 exclusive, previously unreleased tracks, on vinyl or as a 4-CD/Blu-ray box set from the David Bowie Official Website. It’s due out on November 26.

Chicago power pop bands Go Time! and The Spindles will be sharing another bill together, along with The Vin Band, at Q Bar in Darien, IL on November 4. A few weeks later (November 18), The Spindles will be part of a four-band show at Ballydoyle Irish Pub in Downers Grove, with The Embryos, Thrift Store Halo, and Phil Yates and The Affiliates.

Peter Asher and Jeremy Clyde were each half of popular British Invasion duos (Peter and Gordon and Chad and Jeremy respectively), so it’s only natural they would be compatible as yet another duo. They’ve done shows in the past and will be together again at the The Old Town School Of Folk Music on December 1. An email from the venue promises Asher and Clyde will present songs and stories their glory days in the 1960s.

A Dungeons And Dragons inspired play titled The Twenty-Sided Tavern will run from October 27 through January15 at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place just north of downtown.  Previous engagements have sold out at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in Pittsburg and New York.