{"id":77115,"date":"2025-12-09T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77115\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:03:08","slug":"outlaw-country-troubadour-vincent-neil-emerson-plays-headlining-tampa-show-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77115\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlaw country troubadour Vincent Neil Emerson plays headlining Tampa show in February"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VincentVincent Neil Emerson Credit: Thomas Crabtree<\/p>\n

Folk-country protagonist Vincent Neil Emerson<\/a> is taking his Red Horse Band on the road next year, and he\u2019s stopping in Tampa along the way.<\/p>\n

If you feel that outlaw country music is on life support, you\u2019ll gain a little bit of hope upon listening to the 33-year-old hidden gem. The Texan arrives with less-than-twangy tracks about adversities like living in his car and losing his father to suicide at the age of nine, and reminiscing about the brutal history of his Choctaw ancestors. His last set in town was an opening gig for Dallas Green\u2019s City and Colour at The Ritz Ybor<\/a> (just four blocks down from where the old Orpheum once stood), and it saw him confess how Green was the reason he picked up a guitar in the first place, and how his father was a truck driver, serving as the main reason why that commonly-used-in-modern-country theme squeezed its way into his set.<\/p>\n

Tickets to see Vincent Neil Emerson play Tampa\u2019s Orpheum on Thursday, Feb. 12 are still available and cost $35.06.<\/a><\/p>\n

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