Get Out Tonight: Toshi Reagon at the Tractor

We first saw Toshi Reagon at the House of Blues in New Orleans, where she was opening for Ani DiFranco. Not the greatest venue for acoustic music -- the NOLA HoB has an echo problem. Toshi sat on a stool center stage and just oozed music, though, and we were totally sold. Something about that woman you just gotta see and hear.

She's the daughter of Bernice Johnson Reagon--the woman responsible for Sweet Honey in the Rock, which explains the sonic magnetism that just pervades every song she sings. She'll be at the Tractor tonight, and you should go if it doesn't sell out in the next few hours. Here's a decent introduction to what it's like to see Reagon live: