On his 2007 album Indiana, pop-rock singer Jon McLaughlin carved lovelorn songs with soft Christian-rock undertones out of light acoustic guitars and sighing pianos. He revamped his image drastically, though, in the aftermath of his Academy Award-nominated contribution to the movie Enchanted, "So Close." For his 2008 album OK Now, he ditched his farm-boy singer-songwriter persona to reinvent himself as a commercial-pop star. The record was buffed to a bright, electro-pop sheen by Jonas Brothers producer John Fields.
Jon McLaughlin w/ Serita Cheeks
Tonight @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.
