Blaine Duncan & the Lookers, The Quaildogs and American Aquarium are coming to Green Bar this weekend, bringing different influences of Indie folk, southern rock and Americana to the stage all on the same night.

Blaine Duncan & the Lookers

Blaine Duncan, of Blaine Duncan & the Lookers, said the members who will be performing Friday are the latest incarnation of the band, which is composed of a completely different set of members than with which the band originally launched.

“Adam Ridgway helped put together this version of the band. He enjoyed it and wanted to keep doing it, so we formed as a new batch of guys,” Duncan said.

While the band may be filled with new faces, when it comes to music, Duncan said sometimes the older songs work best. He recommends channeling previous tracks as a source of new inspiration.

“When you go back and revisit it, give those songs some juice and some life, sometimes they can become your favorite,” Duncan said.

The Quaildogs

The Quaildogs, hailing from Atlanta, Ga., is made up of Michael Barnhart on the mandolin, guitar and vocals; Lee Berg on bass and vocals; Paul Brandon on the guitar, lap steel and dobro; Rob Josephs as lead vocalist and on the guitar; Marvin Moate as the drums and Graham Terban on the violin.

Barnhart, also a songwriter for The Quaildogs, said the band was formed in July 2010 when current lead singer Josephs decided he wanted to start a band after he had been traveling across the country.

Barnhart said the group’s genre has more of a southern rock influence derived from the different southern areas where the band members grew up.

‘There’s songs that’ll make you cry, [and] there’s songs you can dance to. Whatever we do, we try not to stray too far from that southern rock platform,” Barnhart said.

The band has approximately six shows planned through the end of the year.

American Aquarium

Self-proclaimed “road warriors,” American Aquarium consists of BJ Barham on vocals and guitar; Ryan Johnson as lead guitarist; Whit Wright on steel guitar; Bill Corbin on bass; and Kevin McClain on the drums. Barham said the band’s first record, “Antique Hearts,” was launched in 2006.

Barham said the band members are all Raleigh, N.C. natives, and that they were brought together by a common interest in the music scene. He launched the band in 2006, but none of the group’s current members were a part of the original band. Over the course of two to three years, the original band members began to quit and Barham was forced to branch out to other musical artists, Barham said.

“This got all of us together. We decided this is what we want to do and we’ve been together ever since,” Barham said.

American Aquarium belongs to the Americana genre, which Barham described as a “mix of blues, country, soul, folk, bluegrass all coming together to form, you know, American music.”

Blaine Duncan & the Lookers, The Quaildogs and American Aquarium will be performing at Green Bar on Friday. David Allen, a spokesman for the bar, said bringing these bands together in one place is a part of Green Bar’s goal to bring different artists to the Tuscaloosa music scene.

“Every single person working at Green Bar – from the bartenders, to the door guy, to the sound man, to me, David Allen – lives for music. We want Green Bar to propagate the music scene we always wished to see in Tuscaloosa, and put on the shows we always wanted to attend,” Allen said.