Songs about trains, prison, murder and agriculture spring from the lips of Bhi Bhiman, a singer-songwriter of Sri Lankan descent from St. Louis, they fit him as well as they did Johnny Cash. And like Cash, at least on his late-career American Recordings, Bhiman also mingles a hint of global modernity with country-blues guitar picking and the mellow, wide vibrato of an old soul. A nouveau blues belter with a folksy imaginarium of characters, Bhiman hatches his melodies slowly, drifting like a sunfish under the dock until the hook catches. Magician Magic Mike and The Hot at Nights' Matt Douglas open. —Sylvia Pfeiffenberger