Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys and the Hearts of Darkness team up at Davey’s

“Let’s hear it for Davey’s Uptown,” said Rex Hobart, to a rowdy crowd raising plastic cups of whiskey toward the stage of the midtown dive bar. “What the hell are you guys doing here?”

It was a good question. Despite the fact that Davey’s showroom is a bit of a cave, a brief glance at the crowd made it clear that it was difficult to think of another opportunity for this assortment of people to be in one bar. A grizzled guy and his wife clapped and swing-danced near an amp; a bespectacled hipster couple in plaid traded whispered jokes; a dude in an embroidered cowboy hat clinked glasses with a guy in a button-up shirt and a fleece vest. But that’s the power of the Hearts of Darkness and Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys, who teamed up for one night of powerhouse live local music in Kansas City on Saturday night.