An avid Pandora devotee, I regularly hear what I think will be tiny, tour-stagnant. mid-western bands,  only to find that they’re playing down the road from my house a few weeks later. Such is the case with Nashville’s The Bittersweets. Lead by Hannah Prater’s sweet, blues-twined vocals, the band saunters through Arlington’s IOTA tomorrow, toting The Life You Always Wanted, featuring the very fine, countryside songwriting of guitarist Chris Meyers. "Some people go to college and discover Marx or Chaucer,” he says, “I found Jimmie Rogers.”

Catch The Bittersweets at 8 pm on Tuesday March 11 at Arlington’s IOTA Club and Café with local silky-eyed crooner, Rose.