Aaron Lee Tasjan brings Get Over It, Underdog to Appleton Beer Factory

The Nashville songwriter's newest record is about reckoning and underdogs, and on Sunday, Nov. 22, he plays it in a 500-capacity room in the Fox Valley.

Two weeks from tonight, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Aaron Lee Tasjan plays Appleton Beer Factory. The show is Sunday, Nov. 22, and it starts at 7 p.m. Tickets and details are on the Appleton Beer Factory site. The date was announced Oct. 30, so if you haven't seen it yet, you're not alone.

It's a late-tour stop on a run that has been working its way across the country behind Tasjan's newest album. *Get Over It, Underdog* came out July 17 on Blue Élan Records, an 11-song record that, in the words of its press release, examines personal reckoning and the stories America tells about its underdogs. The lead single was "Lost and Alone." The album was announced in April, and by the time he reaches Appleton it will have had four months to settle in with listeners.

The tour around it has kept him busy this fall. He was booked for Union Pool in Brooklyn on Nov. 11 (BroadwayWorld) and Rumba Cafe in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 20 (JamBase), which makes the Fox Valley one of the last stops of a long stretch on the road. Shows near the end of a run tend to have a particular looseness to them, and Tasjan's songs reward that kind of night.

If you're coming in fresh, the new record is one stop on a long, restless catalog. JamBase files him under country, rock and folk all at once, and the albums back that up. A few years back, Rolling Stone wrote about him mining cosmic-cowboy music on *Silver Tears*. He followed it with the self-titled swing of *Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!* and, in 2024, *Stellar Evolution*. *Get Over It, Underdog* is the latest turn, and reviewers have taken it on its own terms; Making a Scene gave it a full write-up after release.

A record about underdogs, played in a room built for regulars.

Appleton Beer Factory holds 500, which is a good size for this kind of show: big enough to have a crowd and a bit of energy, small enough that a songwriter can actually talk to the room between songs and be heard. For a record built around reckoning and underdog stories, that matters. These are songs that land better when the person singing them can see your face.

A Sunday night show at 7 p.m. is also friendly to a Fox Valley schedule. It's an early enough start to make it home at a reasonable hour before Monday, and a two-week runway gives you time to spend some evenings with the record first. If you've got a friend who likes songwriters but hasn't heard of Tasjan yet, this is an easy night to bring them along.

The week before Thanksgiving is when everyone starts thinking about who they're grateful for, and what kind of year it's been. Tasjan just made a whole album about that kind of reckoning. Go hear him sing it in a room full of neighbors, then go home and start making the pie.

Sources: Aaron Lee Tasjan album press release (All Eyes Media) (alleyesmedia.com); Aaron Lee Tasjan to Perform at Union Pool in Brooklyn (BroadwayWorld) (broadwayworld.com); Aaron Lee Tasjan at Rumba Cafe (JamBase) (jambase.com); Aaron Lee Tasjan Mines Cosmic-Cowboy Music on New 'Silver Tears' (Rolling Stone) (rollingstone.com); Aaron Lee Tasjan releases Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! (Live for Live Music) (liveforlivemusic.com); Aaron Lee Tasjan – Get Over It, Underdog (Making a Scene) (makingascene.org); Appleton Beer Factory (appletonbeerfactory.com)