Though Brown’s Diner might not look like the storied shack where so many Nashville songwriters got their start, the burger-and-beer dive still showcases some of the town’s best-loved talent. Jeffrey Novak has been one of Tennessee’s most prolific musicians since he was a teenager, putting out solo tapes and playing drums on a pair of 7-inch EPs by punks Rat Traps on Jay Reatard’s Shattered Records imprint. Since that time Novak has circled the globe with his revolving power-pop trio Cheap Time and launched a funkier project, Savoy Motel. Departing from his previous work, Novak’s 2024 album Blood Celebration is replete with hand drums and acoustic 12-string guitars. J-No’s solo sound has an organic texture, weaving an impishly imaginative 10 tracks that feel both fresh and familiar. Peter Stringer-Hye’s talents may be best known to Nashville via his time with psych-pop revivalists The Paperhead and the country-tinged Promised Land Sound or his jamming with his peers at Santa’s Pub on Sunday nights. But Stringer-Hye’s 2018 album Pan is an elegantly fingerpicked work. His post-Promised Land/Paperhead work is fragile, emotive and reminiscent of the solo work of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke or The Monkees’ Michael Nesmith. Rounding out the free gig will be the local talents of The Will Mann Band. P.J. KINZER