Perennial rovers the Felice Brothers make a stop in St. Louis Thursday at the Firebird where they’ll play tunes off their new album, Yonder is the Clock. The title is a Mark Twain reference.

Singing songs about washed up boxers, Penn Station, the devil and Ty Cobb, the Catskill Mountains quintet is a throwback to the Alan Lomax-recorded roots artists of yore. The new album is a bit more toned down than their last, but the band assures us that they still have that punk rock spitfire onstage. Indeed, at the end of a SXSW set a few months ago, fiddler Greg Farley dive bombed the drum kit, leaving the drummer tangled in the wreckage.

Felice Brothers with Willy Mason
Thursday, Firebird, $10/12
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