Darius Jackson Live At Friends

Darius Jackson is an Austin guitarist and vocalist. He also fronts the reggae band Bal'head and the Hi-Top Fades, and he is a regular on East Sixth Street. This booking is a different side of his playing: rock classics, with guitar front and center.

A bar-band set that runs through the rock classics and "everything in between," with long guitar solos and a performer who talks to the crowd. Friends is a long-running Sixth Street live music room with Texas blues, rock and soul on its calendar. The kitchen sends out tacos, queso and other bar bites, and the cocktails are part of the pitch.

There is no cover, so it is easy to drop in and stay for a few songs or the whole set. Friends keeps a laid-back, local feel on a street that can get loud. It suits a group that wants familiar rock played live by a musician Austin knows.