DAMIEN JURADO

Style: Storytelling via songs that jumble personal and cultural memories.

Backstory: As a Seattle folkie with a cassette-only label in the mid-1990s, Damien Jurado couldn’t have been too surprised to catch attention from the city’s Sub Pop label. Sunny Day Real Estate’s Jeremy Enigk helped him get that attention, and the Posies’ Ken Stringfellow and Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan produced Jurado albums.

Why you should go: Taking over production for his new LP, “The Horizon Just Laughed,” Jurado casts a soothing haze over tracks that refer to sitcom characters, mood-music designers and an existence observed as much as experienced. Jurado’s shy voice and wideopen tunefulness keep him from drifting, live as well as in the studio.

Opener: Kenyan-born, Seattle-residing, refulgently soulful singer and songwriter Naomi Wachira.

Time and place: 8 p.m. Sunday, the Back Room at Colectivo Coffee, 2211 N. Prospect Ave.

Price: $20 at the door and through the Pabst.

LYNNE ARRIALE

Style: Approachably revelatory piano-driven jazz.

Backstory: Adopted in infancy, Lynne Arriale grew up in Milwaukee and showed enough affinity on a toy piano to step up to the real thing. She graduated from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and in the early 1990s she began touring and recording. She’s long drawn from bop and swing history while creating a space in modern jazz’s context. (She’s also a notable jazz educator.)

Why you should go: Not unlike Keith Jarrett or Bill Evans, Arriale can craft an original composition or interpret a standard with marked sensitivity to her fellow musicians and immense skill on her own instrument. Shortly before releasing a new disc, “Give Us These Days,” Arriale, with bassist Jeff Hamann and drummer Dave Bayles, will display that sensitivity and skill to a hometown crowd.

Time and place: 8 p.m. Sunday, Blu, Pfister Hotel, 424 E. Wisconsin Ave. Price: $20 in advance at blumilwau

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— Jon M. Gilbertson

WILD ADRIATIC AND RICHARD BUCKNER

Style: Big ol’ rock ’n’ roll preceded by more intimate folk and country sounds.

Backstory: Although Wild Adriatic dropped its first EP in 2011, it’s easy to imagine the group — formed in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and based in Albany — is an obscure contemporary of Mountain and Bad Company. Richard Buckner is a peripatetic singer-songwriter whose songs might have emerged from the mind of an ancient troubadour.

Why you should go: Buckner, nominally the opener here, is still working from his 2013 LP “Surrounded” and reissues of early LPs like “Bloomed,” but he might have fresh songs to perform in his richly parched way. Wild Adriatic put out its second LP, “Feel,” in 2017, and on the evidence of its studio output will strut and jam through rock that yearns to be classic.

Time and place: 8 p.m. Thursday, Shank Hall, 1434 N. Farwell Ave.

Price: $15 at the box office, (866) 4683401 and shankhall.com.