The Flyer's music writers tell you where you can go. As you may have noticed elsewhere in this issue, the blues are the main course this weekend. On Friday, the chef's specials include the Fieldstones, a reunion of one of Memphis' most storied blues bands, at the Hi-Tone Cafe. Also on Friday, Bluestock has Sam Carr and Super Chikan, who updates his blues with a slightly funk beat and Hendrix-informed guitar, at the Black Diamond; Big Jack Johnson at the Center for Southern Folklore, and Bobby Rush at the New Daisy. On Saturday, the choice choices are Holly Springs native and onetime Hi Records soul man Syl Johnson at B.B. King's; the keeper of the fife-and-drum sound, Othar Turner, at Blues Hall; Robert Johnson's stepson (literally, not musically) Robert Jr. Lockwood at the center; and Buddy Guy and Texas boogie queen Marcia Ball at Mud Island. But if blues aren't your thing, here are a couple of other shows worth checking out: I'd want to go see Jerry Reed at Grand Casino this Friday even if all he did was perform the theme to Smokey & the Bandit. (Reed is also the co-star of the most bizarre infomercials we've seen recently, featuring him on fishing trip with Willie Ames of Eight Is Enough fame.) But Reed's musical legacy is more substantial than that. In the '60s, before he became a performer in his own right, he was one of the hottest guitar sidemen in Nashville, and his early solo work shows a lot of that six-string fire that is sadly missing from his top-charting stuff from the '70s. Even still, Reed has always been a fine tunesmith and there are some memorable gems from his hit period, including "When You're Hot, You're Hot," "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)," and the epic "Amos Moses." The Tannahill Weavers, who will be performing at the Bartlett Performing Arts Center Sunday at 5 p.m. as the first show of the Mid-South Celtic Arts Alliance's fall series, are sort of the rock stars of Scottish folk music. They earn this description first by being one of the most popular Scottish traditional bands in the world throughout their 20 plus years together. But secondly, in the often-dainty world of folk music the Tannahill Weavers, well, rock. The bodhráns begin to pound faster and faster, pushing the guitar and fiddle, even the cumbersome bagpipes, to crescendos that can only be likened to rock. Of course, it's not all like that. Frequently, the group settles for the kind of sweet, pastoral melodies Celtic music fans love. -- Mark Jordan