Blues-rock artist Samantha Fish plays the Tower Theatre Thursday.

For the past several months, Samantha Fish has been on tour with outlaw country guitar slinger Jesse Dayton, playing a bunch of songs from the duo’s excellent collaborative album, “Death Wish Blues.”

It’d be accurate to describe both the album and the tour as a rousing success. “Death Wish Blues” is a collection of snarling, swaggering blues-rock ‘n’ roll that earned a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album. And the shows, Fish said in a recent interview, have been eye-popping displays of high-flying guitar heroics.

Still, she looks forward to this weekend’s short run of concerts — including Thursday night at Bend’s Tower Theatre — where she gets to focus on her solo work. (Dayton will be playing in Houston this weekend; they’ll reunite for another tour in February.)

“I did a solo tour back in September and it was nice because I hadn’t played those songs in, oh, nine or 10 months, so to go back and revisit them (was interesting),” Fish said. “I was playing with some different people and it was just cool to kind of reimagine the set and try to create something that wasn’t album-centric.”

Fish’s most recent solo album — 2021’s “Faster” — certainly shows off the Kansas City native’s chops as a throwback blues-rocker, a powerhouse guitarist and a melody-minded songwriter, but it does so in a way that’s very different from “Death Wish Blues.” Where the latter spills over with rough edges and wild-eyed energy (thanks in large part to the influence of its producer, blues-punk giant Jon Spencer), the latter takes a more pop-oriented approach, smoothing out Fish’s sound and accentuating her huge vocal hooks. No surprise, then, that the producer of “Faster” was Martin Kierszenbaum, best known for his work with Lady Gaga, Sting and Madonna.

“I did ‘Faster’ during the pandemic and (we) went to Los Angeles and created these rock ‘n’ roll songs that had … pop hooks, which sounds like a bad word, but I just think it means the song is catchy,” Fish said.

“Death Wish Blues,” on the other hand, was born out of an idea that has been floating around Fish’s camp for years, she said.

“My manager and I had been talking about this idea of doing a duet record with elements of really raw, aggressive rock ‘n’ roll,” she said. “I had envisioned it originally as, like, a punk-rock side project.”

All she needed was a partner in this punk-ish endeavor. Dayton, who has played guitar for everyone from Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings to Rob Zombie and Glenn Danzig, turned out to be the perfect fit.

“We started writing, it started going in a little bit different direction, and we basically came up with our own art project,” Fish said. “I think it’s even better than I imagined.”

With a pop-style blues album in her rearview mirror and now a raw blues-rock album to her name, you can bet Fish is already thinking about her next move.

“I’ve got this thing that I’ve developed and honed, but then there’s also the side of me that wants to completely shed that and do something dramatically different, almost like an acting gig,” she said.

So maybe she still has that punk album in her? “Oh yeah,” she said, “I’m not closing the door on that.”

If You Go

Who: Samantha Fish, with Sgt. Splendor

When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, doors open 6:30 p.m.

Where: Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall Street, Bend

Cost: $41-$66

Contact: towertheatre.org