carrieYears of sharing the stage with music veterans like Lucinda Williams and Chip Taylor have trained fiddler and crooning singer Carrie Rodriguez well. As she tours for her second solo album, She Ain’t Me, Rodriguez is full of confidence, and her live shows are clear, clean, and energetic. The songs on her new record, which was produced by Malcolm Burn of Emmylou Harris and Patti Smith fame, take risks her last didn’t, toning down the fiddle and focusing on a more folk-rock sound.

Thu, May 21. 8 p.m. $12

The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., 303-366-0007