CLINT MAUL

"Despite the name, the drawl and the drinkin' songs, for alt-country singer-songwriter Clint Maul, the emphasis is on "alternative." The Richmond, Va., singer-songwriter earned his doctorate from the school of Paul Westerberg.
Maul's set on Monday at The Red and the Black — his D.C. debut — won't turn the room into a honky-tonk so much as a time machine, taking the audience back to the halcyon days of alternative rock — when acts overtly indebted to the pure-pop genius of Westerberg's Replacements signed to majors and dated Wynona Rider."---THE WASHINGTON POST