Countdown to Battle # 3: Tommy T & Rebels on the Run

Time to stop messin' around. Pull on your best boots, grab that 10-gallon hat and put on your best partyin' mood: Tommy T & Rebels on the Run are comin' to town.

Tommy "Tommy T" Bommorito has been performing on stages around the St. Louis area for a long time. He started playing the drums around the age of 2, he said in an email last week, and joined his uncle's country band when he was 9.

Countdown to Battle #3: Beau Diamond and the Collective Dream Band

Beau Diamond has been performing publicly for only three years, but he's left an impressive trail of work in that short time.

Beau Diamond and the Collective Dream Band, which Diamond formed last summer, just finished recording its debut full-length album, Keepin' Busy. When it's released later this summer, it will join a Diamond discography sprinkled all over the Internet -- including a full-length as a solo and an EP with the Collective Dream Band.

Countdown to Battle #3: Lewis Creek

Lewis Creek is a country-music trio based in Murphysboro, IL, consisting of singer and guitarist John Guetersloh, bassist Chris Guetersloh and drummer Joe Swafford.

John Guetersloh was the winner in the Adult Division of the Kentucky Opry Talent Search earlier this year. The band stays busy performing in Southeast Missouri and southwestern Illinois.

John Guetersloh maintains a YouTube channel that includes a few videos from a Lewis Creek performance two years ago. The band also is represented with this cut at SoundCloud:

Countdown to Battle #3: Bucko Toby

The seeds of Bucko Toby were planted by a couple of co-workers who shared an interest not so much in playing music as in the ways it can be recorded.

Guitarist Josh Friedrich and bassist Brandon Bischoff, who worked together at a restaurant in Festus, would get together in their down time to discuss Beatles records "and how bands get some of the gnarly sounds that you hear on psychedelic '60s albums," Friedrich recalled. The duo also shared an admiration for bands such as the Flaming Lips and Animal Collective "who made an effort to change their sound from album to album."

Countdown to Battle #3: American Idiot: A Tribute to Green Day

No questions about what you're going to get with American Idiot: A Tribute to Green Day -- all Green Day all the time.

American Idiot, of course, is named after Green Day's iconic 2004 rock opera adapted as a Broadway musical in 2010. The St. Louis outfit was put together two years ago by drummer Eddie Spinaio (who portrays Tre Cool) and lead guitarist Dan Elder (Jason White). Elder appeared on the Sun Valley Jams stage in Battle of the Bands #2 as a member of Hollywood 5.