Back in 2019, Mercury senior editor Ned Lannamann wrote: "Tim Showalter’s art has always been one of complete, transparent, terrifying honesty. Under the name Strand of Oaks, he’s released six albums of painfully soul-searching songs that confront traumatic events like his house burning down, his wife’s infidelity, and a nearly fatal car accident. The music varies from whisper-quiet funeral folk to headspace synth poems to metal-tinged shred rock, although his best work blends these disparate elements into a throaty, fist-pumping brand of heartland rock." Now supporting his seventh album, In Heaven, he will play after an opening set from Philadelphia-based rocker Pat Finnerty.