The Bucklin Hill Band and Skinny Blue are back for this year’s renewal of The Music of Johnny Cash and the Carter Family concert March 4 at the Admiral Theatre in Bremerton.

As Bucklin Hill frontman Karl Moffitt pointed out, there’s plenty of music to go around. “It’s amazing how many songs the Carter Family wrote,” said Moffitt, who sings and plays guitar with the Kitsap-based country collective. “There are so many songs people will recognize, but maybe won’t have known they were written by the Carter Family.”

Poulsbo-based Skinny Blue also will dip into the Cash and Carter songbooks – a departure from the bands’ brace of 2021 Cash-Carter shows at the Admiral that helped pull the theater out of the COVID shutdown.

“When we started getting ready for that, we realized we only knew two Johnny Cash songs,” said Skinny Blue frontman Thys Wallwork. “But Karl was convinced we could learn them.”

The two subjects of the Admiral’s musical tribute were linked when Cash – who wrapped his country roots around Top-40 radio in the 1960s with hits like “Ring of Fire” – married June Carter, a second-generation member of the legendary family band whose recording history stretched back to 1927 and includes staples like “The Wabash Cannonball,” “Are You Lonesome Tonight” and “Can the Circle Be Unbroken.”

Moffitt leads the band consisting of guitarist Al Alto, fiddler Jon Parry, steel guitarist Tab Tabscott, keyboardist Mark Steele, bassist John Studemuer and drummer Gean Ermel.

Wallwork is joined by bassist Colin Ray and drummer Kevin Blackwood. Guitarist Mikey Gentry joins them for this concert, which starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $19 to $44. Information: 360-373-6743.

Michael C. Moore is the Arts and Entertainment reporter for the Admiral Theatre Foundation.