Greg Giannukos
“Country music isn’t sexy anymore,” bemoaned Zella Day earlier this year in the Chronicle’s cover story on Chaparelle. It’s a sense that she and husband Jesse Woods are working to uncork in preparing the follow-up to last year’s breakout debut LP, Western Pleasure. Along with superproducer Beau Bedford, Chaparelle’s brand of country throws back to classic duets melding raw passion and smoldering tension to excite a dance floor, and they return home to Austin for the Texas premiere of Bleeding Hearts, a new documentary capturing the drama of their personal and creative relationship. Swampy-tonk queen Paige Plaisance opens the free show. – Doug Freeman