Fri. Sept. 7

Linda Viens (in photo) - co-lead siinger of sad country-rockers Angeline, former member of Boston Rock Opera and the funk-happy Crown Electric Co. - is one of our favorite 40-something Boston rockers. I mean, really: She's kind, she's sexy, she's funky, she's smart. What's not to love? Well, she's got another band she's with, too, and here's what she tells us about the Funky White Honkies and their set Friday Sept. 7 at Johnny D's:  "Led by the fearlessly un-selfconscious and immensely talented Dinty Child, (perhaps best-known for being a member of Boston roots/rock masters Session Americana), the rag tag posse of the Funky White Honkies hits the stage at Johnny D's in Davis Square, Somerville for two long sets. More of a 'tribe' than a band, the Honkies have been around for years, providing a gorgeously joyous and loose dance experience for people of every age, leanings, stripe, and style. With it's large, rotating band of expert players, and under the spontaneous direction of Dinty, the Honkies converge for one purpose only:  to get down and get dirty, laying down a set of grooves that start loose, and build inexorably to nothing less than pure, transcendent jazz/funk/punk fueled cacaphony." JSink insert: Wowie! Viens continues: "Horn players roam the room New Orleans style, the washboard player grins under his dusty fedora, the two drummers maniacally layer the beats, Dinty wails on the accordion from the top of a wobbly amp, polkas start and stop inside disc grooves and the backup singers bang on tamborines and fall over laughing ... all to make you do one thing: free the primal urge to move! As the great funk God George Clinton said, 'Free your ass, and your mind will follow.' Never has dancing felt so natural, so subversive, and so damn good." The FWH play two sets, starting around 9 p.m. Cover: $10.

17 Holland St., Somerville, 617-776-2006 www.johnnyds.com