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"The Journey's the Thing," The Outlyers' tour of American history, geography, music, and literature - all in three-and-a-half minutes - with guitars.

If you’re looking for a prime example of a band making real, original, homegrown Buffalo music, you need look no further than the Outlyers. Steeped in a variety of musical influences and comprised of some of the best songwriters and players in town, the band has crafted its latest release, Hits & Myths (Red Jacket Recordings), like a master distiller working in the Bourbon-soaked counties of Kentucky—slow and easy (if you want cheap moonshine, go down in the holler and get it from the guy filling jars out of an old radiator). This is a great disc. Four years in the making, the result is an intoxicating, 13-song mix with enough genuine quality, both lyrically and musically, to stand beside anything in that catch-all genre known as Americana. Core members of the band include the husband-wife team of Dave Meinzer and Cathy Carfagna, Adam Gearing, Tom Fischer and Jim Celeste, who were joined by an impressive array of players including Jim Whitford, Gretchen Schulz, Jim Bohm, Eric Wozniak, Mike Miskuly, George Olmsted, Kevin McCue and Bob Chapman for the recording. The show will include appearances by most of those folks, along with John Brady III of the Steam Donkeys on drums and special appearances by former members of the Riddlers and Pine Dogs.

Friday, May 19 at 7pm. Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen Street (886-8539). $5.