At the bar before the show, I chatted with Johnny Irion when, in a sign of things to come, the house p.a. shuffled to a Jayhawks song. Irion literally took note: He pulled a marker from his pocket, wrote the name of the band on his hand and excused himself to order some pre-show dinner.

When the voices of Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion come together it isn't just sweet harmony that happens.

When you're the granddaughter of Woody Guthrie and the daughter of Arlo Guthrie, expectations run, expectedly, high.