Sure, you know actor Jeff Bridges from his performances in The Big Lebowski, Starman, the outstanding 2010 remake of True Grit, and so many other unforgettable films. You may also know he won an Oscar for playing country singer Otis "Bad" Blake in 2009's Crazy Heart. It may have slipped your attention, however, that Bridges had already released a solo album under his own name in 2000. He jammed with Kris Kristofferson between takes on Heaven's Gate (1980), an experience that informed his work on Crazy Heart, and sang in the star-studded choir for "We Are the World" a few years later. Crazy Heart included a song called "The Weary Kind," co-written by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett, that also won an Academy Award. Now Burnett has helped Bridges perfect some of his own tunes, plus some from the Crazy Heart score, and take them out on the road. As an additional treat for musical locavores, PK Dwyer, esteemed member of The Jitters, opens for Bridges at his upcoming Tacoma performance.

JEFF BRIDGES & THE ABIDERS, w/ PK Dwyer, 7:30 p.m., Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma, $55-$129, 253.591.5890