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Al Green, Joan Osborne, Maceo Parker, Susan Tedeschi, The Black Crowes and the Robert Cray Band are among the more than 20 acts booked for the 12th-annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. The brews portion of the event features about 50 microbrewers from at least seven states. The festival runs from Sept. 16-18 (beer tasting Sept. 17) in Telluride Town Park. Tickets are on sale ($50-$55 daily and $140 three days, 866-515-6166 or tellurideblues.com).
Social Distortion continues to mine the road for “Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which hit music shelves last September. The old-school punk band wraps up a European tour on Sept. 4, and about two weeks later takes off on an extended U.S. tour. It plans a four-day stay at Gothic Theatre, Nov. 3-6. Tickets go on sale Saturday ($25, TicketWeb).
Dolly Parton plans an October release for an album on which she covers popular folk-rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s. “Those Were the Days” not only has songs like Crimson and Clover” but also features the original artists performing them with her. She comes to the Lecture Hall at the Colorado Convention Center on Oct. 6. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday ($45-$65, Ticketmaster).
Fall Out Boy has to be enjoying the success of its album “From Under the Cork Tree,” which is still climbing the Billboard 200 chart after nine weeks. This week it sits at No.13. Its first single, “Sugar, We’re Going Down,” is No.10 on the magazine’s modern rock list. Fall Out Boy comes to Denver with the Nintendo Fusion Tour to play the Fillmore Auditorium on Nov. 9. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday ($20-$22, Ticketmaster).
– Ed Will
