Drivin N Cryin bring 'Crushing Flowers' to the Pour House on Nov. 20

The Atlanta rock band adds a Friday night at the Charleston Pour House, with Savannah Grace opening, behind what Kevn Kinney has hinted could be their last full-length album.

Some bands you see because they're new. Others you see because you don't know how many more chances you'll get. Drivin N Cryin are the second kind this fall, and they've just added a Charleston stop to the calendar.

Drivin N Cryin play The Charleston Pour House on Friday, Nov. 20. Doors are at 7pm and the music starts at 8pm. Savannah Grace opens. Tickets are $25 to $30 through Afton Tickets. The show was announced Nov. 3, which leaves a little over two weeks between announcement and downbeat in a room that holds 450.

That short window is a good reason to move fast. So is the record they're touring. *Crushing Flowers* came out April 10, the band's first new album since 2019's *Live the Love Beautiful*, produced by Sadler Vaden. Talking about it, frontman Kevn Kinney has suggested it may be the last full-length Drivin N Cryin record. In his words, he wanted "to make one more record for Drivin N Cryin fans."

"I want to make one more record for Drivin N Cryin fans." — Kevn Kinney

That doesn't mean the band is quitting the road. They spent the summer and early fall on what they called the Crushing Flowers Tour, from an in-store at Grimey's in Nashville in July to a Denver date at Cervantes' Other Side in August. The Charleston show catches them after that run, and it looks like one of the few dates on the books this late in the year.

The singles in the lead-up to the album, including "Why Don't You Go Around," made it clear Kinney still writes the plainspoken, ragged Southern rock songs that have kept the Atlanta band going for decades. Kinney leads the current lineup with Tim Nielsen on bass and Dave V. Johnson on drums, a three-piece built for clubs about the size of the Pour House. In a recent interview with Music Mecca, he talked through the new album and what life on the road looks like at this stage.

The Pour House is a natural fit. It's a listening room that doesn't take itself too seriously, the kind of place where a crowd of 450 can sing along without anyone policing the volume. A Friday-night bill that starts at 8 also means you're home at a reasonable hour, and Savannah Grace's opening set is worth showing up for at doors rather than walking in halfway through.

If you've been a fan since the college-radio years, this is the version of the band to catch: older, a little wiser, still loud, and touring a record they've told you might be their last word. If you're new to them, *Crushing Flowers* is a fine place to start the week before.

Either way, go. When a songwriter tells you this might be the last one, it's best to take him at his word.

Sources: Drivin N Cryin new album, tour dates, interview – Ultimate Classic Rock (ultimateclassicrock.com); Drivin N Cryin Release “Why Don’t You Go Around” Ahead of Crushing Flowers Album – Grateful Web (gratefulweb.com); Drivin N Cryin Bring Crushing Flowers Tour to Cervantes’ Other Side on August 18 – Grateful Web (gratefulweb.com); Drivin N Cryin: Crushing Flowers – Grimey's (grimeys.com); Kevn Kinney of Legendary ATL Rock Band Drivin N Cryin Discusses Their Newest Album – Music Mecca (musicmecca.org); Drivin N Cryin at The Charleston Pour House – Afton Tickets (aftontickets.com)