Dave Jordan & The NIA

Dave Jordan & The NIA Live at the Maple Leaf Bar

Some artists play New Orleans. Dave Jordan is New Orleans. A nearly three-decade fixture of the south Louisiana music scene, the award-winning singer-songwriter and bandleader brings his Neighborhood Improvement Association back to one of their favorite rooms for a night of roots, rock, and pure Crescent City soul.

Critics have called him a swampy lovechild of Tom Petty, Dr. John, and John Prine — road-worn and heartfelt, with hook-heavy songs that move between funk, Americana, blues, and rock like a man who's played all 50 states and always found his way back home. OffBeat's Best of the Beat finalist. WWOZ-lauded. Jazz Fest tested.

This is the full electric NIA experience — guitars cranked, rhythm locked in tight, and a setlist that pulls from six albums of originals alongside the kind of covers only a true student of American music…