Richard Thompson and Loudon Wainwright

Fairport convention guitar virtuoso and badass folk soloist Richard Thompson's last appearance in town was on the heels of a spectacularly irreverent millennial greatest hits package in which he interpreted his favorite arias and Scottish carols alongside Britney, Justin, and Bowling For Soup. The scope has since been tightened considerably and he's no longer the class clown, since he's just promoting a forty-year retrospective of his own tunes here, but that just means he'll be kicking butt with a straight face this time.

Also featuring Loudon Wainwright III, who is every bit as much a folk icon, having sired a sizable pie-slice of the Wainwright/McGarrigle alt- and indie-folk performers active today. His last two albums have been dedicated to turn-of-the-century old-time banjo player Charlie Poole and Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, respectively. Man, it must be nice to be royalty.