He sits on a stage - a stage that looks more like a wilting Southern front porch than the focal point of one of Tacoma's local music venues - playing a beaten acoustic guitar. It kind of sounds like the blues, but it's not. It kind of feels like you should be drinking moonshine, but you're not - just beer.

The scene in front of you is part music, part humor, part performance art - and all bizarre.

Ladies and gentleman, Swampy Draws.

"I'm not very good at playing guitar. I try to make it sound bluesy," says Sean Nivens, the man behind Swampy Draws, a "musical" entity that includes drummer Mudbutt Mysterio banging on all sorts of household shit, and bassist Pootooth McDinglesharts - together combining to create something of a dysfunctional, drunken, very Tacoma jug band.

"We never practice."

Honestly, with names like Swampy Draws, Mudbutt Mysterio and Pootooth McDinglesharts - who needs practice? It's apparent from Swampy's first rough banjo or guitar pluck, or his fifth beer that the phenomenon of Swampy Draws is only partially about the music.

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[Hell's Kitchen, Swampy Draws, The Revengers, Mighty High, Walk the Plank, Trip the Light Fantastic, Wheelies, Nothing You'd Like, Saturday, April 17, doors at 4:20 p.m., $7, 928 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003]

[The Spar, The Bluebillies, Swampy Draws, 7 p.m., no cover, 2121 N. 30th St., Tacoma, 253.627.8215]