# Event Details - **Event Name**: Thomas Dollbaum with Reagan Byrd (of Heffner) @ Hendershot's in Athens, GA! - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm – Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 10:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Catch Thomas Dollbaum and his band in Athens, GA on Friday September 18th at Hendershot's!About this EventAubrey Entertainment presents...THOMAS DOLLBAUMwith special guestREAGAN BYRD (of Heffner)@ Hendershot'sFriday September 18, 2026All ages showDoors open @ 7pm, Show @ 8pmSupport from Reagan Byrd (of Heffner)Venue is located at 237 Prince Avenue in Athens, GAThe realest-deal storyteller in indie-rock today is the Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter , and Birds of Paradise is his most powerful and dynamic work yet. Following up his critically acclaimed Wellswood (Big Legal Mess, 2022) and Drive All Night EP (Dear Life Records, 2025), Birds of Paradise is a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves. These songs find Dollbaum searching for acceptance in the transient in-between places: Florida’s pine flatwoods, backroads leading to I-95, where birds fly across the water. And even though the ghosts of his alt-country predecessors Townes and Molina are definitely present, on Birds of Paradise, Dollbaum emerges from their shadows–waving to the past, sounding all the more like himself.This moment–this album–is long overdue. Both of Dollbaum’s previous releases had taken way too long to record, due to circumstances out of his control, leaving him frustrated. And after having been away from his home for eight years, the place he had left was no longer the place he remembered, and the unchanging of the natural world felt like a constant he wanted to write about. With a sense of immediacy, he wrote Birds of Paradise in three months. Called up the musicians he trusted and admired the most–Nick Corson, Josh Halper, and Jake Lenderman–and asked them to meet him at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi with producer/engineer Clay Jones. They learned and tracked the album in four days, capturing lightning in a bottle, a sonic revelation Dollbaum’s writing has always been waiting for.“Big Boi” recounts the time high school-aged Thomas got roped into giving a couple (outside the Waffle House) a ride to pick up drugs at a pill mill. At a time in indie-rock when many singer-songwriters like to proclaim they’re Southern, Dollbaum knows it’s more complicated than that. “One day I’ll take you down to a place that you can never get out/ Couple splinters in the wall, nothing to brag about,” he sings steady and direct after realizing the mess he’s in. It brings to mind the short story “Samaritans” by Larry Brown, where the narrator is tormented for having a helping heart. Like Brown, Dollbaum miraculously examines entrapment with generosity.“Pulverize,” the album’s hardest and darkest rocker, is sorta like another short story, “Time and Again,” by Breece D’J Pancake. Both song and story are told from the point of view of a man plowing down the road, picking up strangers, trying to forget real awful things they can’t mention. Dollbaum was inspired by the time he tried to drive across Louisiana overnight but then, halfway, decided to turn around. In “Pulverize,” Dollbaum’s narrator is too afraid to look back. “You should have seen me/ out of Texas in the high moon/ Playing with God riding across the border cooped up/ in a hoopty to the promised land,” he struts. Lenderman harmonizes with Dollbaum on the chorus, “Pulverize this heart.” Dollbaum sings the next line alone, slinging his voice the highest it’ll be the whole album: “I don’t even need it.” And by the end of the song, he’s screaming with an intensity we’ve never heard before: “It’s fine, it’s fine, it’s FINE.”But it ain’t just grown men trying to move on in Birds of Paradise. “King’s Landing” playfully frolics from the point of view of little-kid-Dollbaum growing up near a little private airport. And he’s got big dreams of flying him and his folks outta there. “I wish I could take us from this town,” he sings. But knowing this dream is “probably a waste of time,” he suggests going home and watching “Judge Joe Brown/ And reruns of Cops episodes in our home town.” “I hope we catch one where the bad guy gets away,” Dollbaum offers some optimism, “Maybe he’ll steal a small plane/ Fly off to the everglades/ Build us a home out of water and snakes.” When there’s nothing else, survival and imagination are the same thing.With the help of Lenderman, Halper, Corson, and Jones, Birds of Paradise is Dollbaum’s hard-won breakthrough. Alive and echoing like the poems and short stories you can’t shake: coyotes howl, birds fly south, kids chase rabbits through the sugar cane, and cigarettes are four dollars a pack. Birds of Paradise reminds us where we come from–the things inside ourselves we’ve forgotten–we just needed Dollbaum to show us. Here’s how to look back without fear or shame. Here’s authenticity.– Ashleigh Bryant Phillipshttps://youtu.be/nZVR2IYkjNo?si=8TINfbcH4ofiF_ST https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/0b17d8b0-a3e0-11f1-9988-bfc638c33a5a-rimg-w522-h740-dc384828-gmir.jpg REAGAN BYRD: Lead singer for Athens, GA based Heffner. This show will be Reagan's buzzworthy solo acoustic debut! Check out his band, Heffner, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDymLPIyhfo&t=16s https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/0b2ee320-a3e0-11f1-9988-bfc638c33a5a-rimg-w479-h740-dc283828-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/athens/thomas-dollbaum-with-reagan-byrd-of-heffner-hendershots-in-athens-ga/100001993848053200 - **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, trips-adventures, kids - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - door_time: 2026-09-18T23:00:00Z - presented_by: Presented by Aubrey Entertainment - Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes - Location: Hendershot's - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 15.76, max: 57.42, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Athens - **state**: GA - **country**: United States - **location**: Hendershot's - **lat**: 33.960048 - **long**: -83.382717 - **full address**: Hendershot's, 237 Prince Avenue, Athens, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Thomas Dollbaum with Reagan Byrd (of Heffner) @ Hendershot's in Athens, GA! - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/5cedb9d713f65c27431100bbe5333c7d539b74279e901164c93f9d3d95f5b056-rimg-w1200-h879-dca9ab92-gmir.jpg?v=1784350033 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Thomas Dollbaum with Reagan Byrd (of Heffner) @ Hendershot's in Athens, GA! being held? - **A:** Thomas Dollbaum with Reagan Byrd (of Heffner) @ Hendershot's in Athens, GA! takes place on Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm to Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 10:30 pm at Hendershot's, 237 Prince Avenue, Athens, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Thomas Dollbaum with Reagan Byrd (of Heffner) @ Hendershot's in Athens, GA!? - **A:** Thomas Dollbaum with Reagan Byrd (of Heffner) @ Hendershot's in Athens, GA! is organized by Aubrey Entertainment. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Thomas Dollbaum with Reagan Byrd (of Heffner) @ Hendershot's in Athens, GA! is ideal for live music fans, concert-goers, and anyone who enjoys unforgettable performances from their favorite artists in an electric live atmosphere. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Athens, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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