Alabama songwriter A.A. Bondy doesn’t seem to think much of his ’90s grunge band Verbena. Though the group retains a following, he dismisses it as if it were a passing, childish phase. This decade Bondy traded his electric guitar for an acoustic one, recording two albums of easy Southern folk, 2007’s American Hearts and this year’s When the Devil’s Loose. On both he sounds born again, like a man who’s finally found his calling, and fittingly he fills both discs with baptismal images of cleansing water.
A.A. Bondy
Tonight @ Club Garibaldi, 8 p.m.
