Still riding high on the critical acclaim of last year’s album THEERTHMOOVSAROUNDTHESUN (Good Charamel Records), Terry Sullivan never relents. After thirty years he continues to slog it away in the Queen City making whatever kind of music suits him. He’s renowned for his punk roots with the Jumpers and their all too small dossier of recordings, as well as the groundbreaking dark new wave band the Celibates and the unbridled bar rock of Terry & the Headhunters and the Dollywatchers. In recent years, his Low Lamp Sessions project has brought out his mellower—although never really mellow—side. With his Low Lamp crew that includes local luminaries like pianist extraordinaire (and fellow ex-Celibate) David Kane, drummer Greg Gizzi and bassist Dave Hill, Sullivan takes on the great American songbook crooning standards like an ersatz rock and roll, stacked-hair Sinatra. He also plays a clutch of originals and refigures surprising rock nuggets—buried gems from Dylan and the Faces, to name a couple—in his own markedly “Low Lamp” style. In recent news, based on a 30-minute set at North Carolina’s Camel City Showcase in June, Terry was booked on the spot to headline the Tobacco Road Music Series launching out of N.C. in November. But this weekend Sullivan will spread his magic around Buffalo over two nights in two very different kinds of venues. Friday, August 31 he will ably provide a soundtrack to fine dining and cocktails on the water at Shanghai Red’s and on Saturday, September 1 he’ll shift gears and be back to the kind of rock club where his craft has continued to grow over the years with a show at Mohawk Place.

Friday, 7pm. Shanghai Red’s, 2 Templeton Terrace (852-7337); Saturday, 10pm. Mohawk Place, 47 E. Mohawk

(855-3931, http://mohawkplace.com). $5