Joe Vann

Hole in the Wall Presents Joe Vann, Doors at 6:00, 18+.

Vann grew up listening first to country stalwarts like Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, and Jim Croce. The down-trodden anti-heros littered throughout their catalogues were natural thematic fits for Vann’s settings. “I grew up in a trailer with no electricity, no heat, or air conditioning, just a generator for weekends if we wanted to put a VHS in,” he says. “May parents didn’t choose to have that kind of life, it’s not like they were really into nature or something. We just didn’t have money.” To pass time, Vann would read, swim in creeks, and eventually scored a drum kit. Later he turned to 2000’s indie titans like Feist and Sufjan Stevens.