Performing blues, folk, country, and Americana music that, according to NPR, “evokes the old-timey spirit of a thousand crackling 78 RPM records,” Midwestern singer/songwriter Pokey LaFarge headlines a July 23 concert at Maquoketa’s Codfish Hollow Barn, the artist’s 2024 release Rhumba Country hailed by No Depression as a “stirring, deceptively fraught” album that “presents vivid vignettes of restless hearts gripped by desire and loneliness, and yearning for higher ground.”
