Beaumonster, is a book of memoirs and other fantastic behind the scene stories! come see Jesse perform and talk about the book. Sarah Borges opens the night.

6pm doors

7pm show

advanced tickets here

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JESSE DAYTON

“If you open your arms to the world, it’s amazing what will come back
atcha,” drawls East Texas native,singer/songwriter/filmmaker/author Jesse Dayton, who has a bunch more homespun wisdoms where that came
from. A veteran of more than 30 years as a musician, Dayton was discovered as a young teenager playing “a toilet
dive” in his hometown of Beaumont by legendary club owner Clifford Antone, who booked him into his famed
Austin venue, then immediately shifted him over to the honky-tonk Broken Spoke, where the likes of Willie Nelson,
George Strait and Ernest Tubb have had residencies.
“When I first got to Austin, everybody else sounded like Stevie Ray Vaughan, but I sounded more like Jerry
Reed. I didn’t think I was cool, either, because this was before every punk sported that image of Johnny Cash flipping the rod.”
Equally steeped in Texas/Louisiana blues, old-school country and punk-rock, Dayton is the music world’s best-kept secret, hiding in plain sight as a guitarist for Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Ryan Bingham and L.A. punk pioneers X,as well as touring alongside Social Distortion,the Supersuckers and John Doe.
Brought up on his older sister’s Laurel Canyon folk records, the FM album rock and punk he listened to as a teenager plus the array of country acts who used to tour through Beaumont–including Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, David
Allen Coe, Conway Twitty, Hank Jr., and George Jones–Dayton has managed to create a genuine hybrid that takes alt-country and Americana in new, exciting directions.
“The world doesn’t need another outlaw country singer covering Waylon Jennings,” he says of his stylistic mix.
“Everyone where I was growing up had no idea Neil Young wrote Waylon’s ‘Are You Ready for the Country?’ or that George Jones’ ‘Bartender’s Blues’ was written by James Taylor, a stoned junkie at the time.”