There is a Dobro that Nicky Diamonds carries from show to show — ninety-five years old, worn down by the hands of whoever played it before his. When Diamonds draws a slide across its cone in a small room, the music does not feel performed so much as conducted: something older than him finding its way through.
About the Show
Diamonds — born Nicholas Long, Afro-Indigenous, out of the Oak Cliff area of Dallas and now based in Nashville — writes from a place most contemporary artists only gesture toward. He grew up on a couple of acres tending ponies, raised in a Southern Baptist Church, and the hymn books stayed with him. So did the ancestral narratives his family carried. Critics describe his music as drawing from old-school honky-tonk country, rock and roll, and the pop of the sixties and seventies, delivered in a velvety high-register croon.
His 2024 album Perdido en La Salsa (seven songs, released in March; the title translates as “lost in the sauce”) works through heartache, divorce, and perseverance in a sound built on pedal steel, waltz time, and finger-picked acoustic guitar. Before that record, he fronted Lonely Horse, a San Antonio blues band that signed with an Atlantic Records subsidiary in 2016, before returning to his roots in hill country blues and the country-Americana circuit. After Willie Nelson watched his video for “Tirame un Paro” and invited Diamonds to the 2023 Luck Reunion, the bookings widened: the Pilgrimage Festival in Franklin, Tennessee, where he shared a bill with Alicia Keys; the Black Opry Revue at AmericanaFest; SXSW 2026. He has also released Speak To Me on Alabama Sound Company, a record that moves further into his resonator-and-slide roots. He performs solo, and occasionally brings along his band The Deepcuts. Audiences tend to leave carrying what the billing promises: “a groove stuck in your bones.”
Venue & Logistics
Daryl’s House brings Diamonds into the Hudson Valley for a Wednesday-night show at the club on Route 22 in Pawling. At 300 capacity, it is the right scale for a songwriter whose music is built for rooms where you can actually see the slide in his hand. Doors open at 5:00 p.m., show at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets
Tickets are $28.69–$33.84. The show is all ages. Buy tickets