Hackensaw Boys

The website Saving Country Music sums up the Hackensaw Boys this way:

“Before string bands were a ‘thing’ in popular culture, there was the Hackensaw Boys. Before The Avett Brothers were selling out arenas, before Mumford & Sons were becoming the biggest band in music in a given year, before everybody and their brother was growing a beard and wearing suspenders and playing in jug bands, the Hackensaw Boys were mixing bluegrass and oldtime music with a punk attitude and reshaping what a modern old-school string band could sound like.”

On Friday, June 10, the trio will play Barking Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave.

In an email, producers said the venue tends to “get a bit quiet in June, with Riverbend and Bonnaroo occupying so much of the area’s musical attention.” But this show, presented by Gig City Productions, “was too good to pass up.”

The band recently released “Charismo,” t he f i rst in nearly a decade. It’s named for the percussive instrument invented by Justin Neuhardt, who played with t he band in its early days. The charismo has been described as “a homemade, tin can contraption,” assembled from recycled wood and scrap — tin cans, hubcaps and so forth. It is constantly broken down and reassembled as the parts wear out and new ones are found.

The show starts at 8 p. m. Tickets are $ 15. To purchase, call 423- 6245347 or visit www.barkinglegs.org.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The Hackensaw Boys recently released “Charismo,” the band’s first album in nearly a decade. They will play at Barking Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave., at 8 p.m. Friday.