Jimmi Davies is a coppersmith, motor head, artist and friendly face around Olympia. But perhaps he is best known for his music - with Oly legends The Dirty Birds and his latest project, straight up rock and rollers Resident Kings. But did you know the singer/saxophonist has a relationship with Tacoma's long-standing garage rock originals, The Sonics? From performing together on stage at The Capitol Theater, to Davies' hand on the engineering board when The Sonics played with Mudhoney, the group has taken a liking to a man who has looked up to them since he was a boy, inviting him to play harmonica on a track on their first new studio album since 1967. This Is the Sonics is out March 31 via their own imprint, Revox. That's not all. Davies co-wrote "Bad Betty" with them - he wrote the vox and gave them the idea for the melody. "It's sort of in the vein of what I've done for so many years," he said. "I like to write songs about subversives and hot rods and stuff like that, so I decided to write a song about my wife, Audrey. It's about Bad Betty on her Bonneville." Bonneville is her motorcycle, her Triumph. The Sonics play the Seattle's Moore Theatre April 2. Davies and the new line-up for the Resident Kings play Olympia's Rhythm & Rye Jan. 31. Rock and roll is here to stay.

RESIDENT KINGS, w/C Average, Marching Suns, 9 p.m., Rhythm & Rye, 311 Capitol Way, Olympia,  $5, 360.972.2278