California son Kenneth Pattengale's sense of frontier musicianship is at once evocative of Tom Waits and the tumbleweed troubadours of the American West. That's not to say his songs are simple: they fuse elements of folk, blues, and jazz for a sound that's straight, old-school Americana. Pattengale takes the Hotel Café stage tonight behind his sixth studio record, Storied Places. His friends from the Found Object Orchestra are also on board, fleshing out his repertoire with clarinet, sax, upright bass, and a little bit of the kitchen sink.