When Gossip Wolf first heard Chicago singer-songwriter Phillip-Michael Scales a few years back, the nephew of blues great B.B. King was making thumping, tuneful folk-rock as Briar Rabbit. On Scales’s new EP, Sinner-Songwriter, he’s embraced a more soul-inflected sound, swirling with bluesy alt-rock riffs. In the moody video for the EP’s first single, “Lover, Let Me Be,” a man and a woman circle each other warily around a swimming pool. On Thursday, June 21, Scales celebrates the EP with a set at Emporium in Wicker Park with Mutts and Forks of Ivy.
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