Dale Watson brings his brand of Texas honky-tonk music to the Birchmere

Dale Watson's wavy long hair and sideburns have turned silver, so he now looks like the classicist he's always sounded like. The 52-year-old singer-songwriter isn't a classicist in the sense of knowing Latin texts; Watson is a master of Texas honky-tonk music. Whether he's singing the canon or his own compositions, he always sounds as if he's studied and absorbed the genre's entre past and full spectrum of techniques.