Michelle Malone and Doug Kees return to Sundilla on Thursday, March 5. Showtime at the AUUF (450 E. Thach Avenue in Auburn) is 7:30. Advance tickets are just $20 and can be found at Spicer’s Music, Ross House Coffee, and online here; admission at the door will be $25, and $15 for students. Free coffee, tea, water and food will be available, and the audience is welcome to bring their own favorite food or beverage.

Michelle Malone is a lifer. She's been a mainstay of American roots music for more than 30 years, building her community onstage and off, mixing roadhouse rock & roll with blues, folk, and country-soul. It's a sound that's taken the award-winning songwriter around the world, but it's inspired by Malone's home in the South, too. That is evident with her latest album. After more than a dozen studio albums, she continues flying a flag for Georgia — a state with its own ever-evolving sound — on Southern Comfort.

"I'm very much a southerner," says Malone, who co-produced the album. “This whole record was written, recorded, and performed by southerners, and you can hear it. There's rock, country, and folk here. There's swagger. Southern Comfort isn't about booze; it's about a feeling, a family, a familiarity — all the things that make you feel warm and fuzzy.” 

“Raucous and jubilant - somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Shelby Lynne comes Malone alternating between soulful ballads and rowdy, riffy blasters. ” — ROLLING STONE 

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