{"id":108074,"date":"2026-01-06T21:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/108074\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:12:39","slug":"mason-jennings-brings-20th-studio-lp-to-st-pete-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/108074\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Jennings brings 20th studio LP to St. Pete on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"349824\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/mason-jennings-press-photo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mason-Jennings-press-photo.jpeg?fit=2500%2C1667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1684450004&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mason Jennings press photo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mason Jennings&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mason-Jennings-press-photo.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mason-Jennings-press-photo.jpeg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mason-Jennings-press-photo.jpeg\" alt=\"Musician Mason Jennings stands in front of a weathered wooden fence. They have dark, curly hair and a mustache, wearing a teal t-shirt under a tan cardigan with a vibrant geometric pattern in orange, red, and blue. Sunlight filters through trees in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-349824\"  \/>Mason Jennings Credit: Press handout<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masonjennings.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Jennings<\/a> has been no stranger to the Bay area, playing everywhere from long-shuttered Seminole clubs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/upcoming-concerts-12242324\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boomerz Boiler Room<\/a>, anyone?) to pristine listening rooms like the also-shuttered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/review-mason-jennings-23song-ybor-city-set-is-a-humbling-honest-examination-of-the-human-condition-wsetlist-12163323\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Attic in Ybor City<\/a>, and even the, um, also-shuttered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/wps-picks-for-the-weeks-best-shows-12260621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, however; many of the venues the 50-year-old songwriter has played locally are still open, and this is his first time at St. Pete\u2019s best venue for sound, <a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/bayboro-brewing-co-13118047\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayboro Brewing Co.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the road in support of his 20th studio album Magnifier\u2014co-produced with Pearl Jam\u2019s Stone Gossard and self-described as his \u201cmost intimate and bare-bones record to date, featuring piano, acoustic guitar, and voice\u201d\u2014Jennings will be every bit as introspective as he\u2019s been throughout the course of a storied career that launched with a self-titled debut in 1997.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/mason-jennings-21069508\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Mason Jennings play Bayboro Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg on Friday, Jan. 9 are still available and start at $32.46.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767733959_446_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/jan-01-07-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 01 \u2013 07, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Jennings Credit: Press handout Mason Jennings has been no stranger to the Bay area, playing everywhere from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[945,7565,55353,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865],"class_list":["post-108074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-bayboro-brewing-co","tag-live-music-in-st-petersburg","tag-mason-jennings","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}