FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB PRESENTS: The Gibson Brothers at FITZGERALDS Historic Nightclub $25 General Admission Seat / Reserved Tables Available. Theres a reason why Ricky Skaggs pulled Eric and Leigh Gibson off the stage at the Ryman two decades ago and offered to produce their debut record. The same thing that led David Ferguson and Grammy Award winning producer and Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach to co-write and produce their 14th album Mockingbird (2018) and release it on his own label Easy Eye Sound alongside cultural icons such as Hank Williams Jr. and Dr. John: the Gibson Brothers are the real deal. They can pick. They can sing. And they can write a damn good country song. Theyve won about every bluegrass award you can name and released albums on almost every premier Americana label you can think of including Sugar Hill and Rounder, and, if thats not enough, their songs have been recorded by bluegrass legends no less than Del McCoury. Its a resume almost anybody in country music would be proud to have. But despite all of this, the Gibson Brothers are not yet household names. Their latest album, Darkest Hour, produced by dobro master Jerry Douglas might just change that. As soon as you hear Leigh singing with Alison Krauss [I Feel The Same Way As You] on the new project you realize that his voice is as good as anyone in music today. Add the brother harmony to that and they have something truly unique. While Mockingbird featured gorgeous production, recreating the sound on stage was difficult. We put together a little band to go out and try to recreate it, Eric told me, but we couldnt. We would have to have such a huge band to try to recreate that record, but we did the best we could. Douglas who has won 14 Grammy awards and backed up everyone from Ray Charles to Paul Simon and George Jones wanted to make a record they could actually play on the road. So he picked the best songs (out of dozens) and squirreled them away in Sound Emporiums Studio B. But then the pandemic hit. We did ou