Nine Pound Hammer Nails California

This has nothing to do with accordions, no how no way. It does, however, have something to do with good music: Mighty Kentucky cowpunks Nine Pound Hammer -- probably my favorite band, when you get right down to it -- will be playing several California shows in early 2007, including a Feb. 3 set at San Francisco's coolest dive bar, Thee Parkside. See you there.