Luc Schneider / Submitted photoFolk-rock artist Bob Schneider will perform at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Tower Theatre in Bend.

Bob Schneider is a prolific songwriter, a terrific visual artist and a longtime fixture in the fertile cultural scene of Austin, Texas.

He’s a talent worthy of a nationwide audience, though even his press materials acknowledge he’s “struggled to break out of the Texas bubble.”

That may be true, but he has, at least physically, left the Lone Star State: He’ll play Bend’s Tower Theatre Thursday night.

Schneider is in the middle of releasing three new EPs of five songs each; collectively, they add up to a new album called “The King Kong Suite.” And they’re wonderful. If grown-up, easygoing pop-rock packed with unconventional ideas and memorable melodies is your kind of thing, then you owe it to yourself to investigate Schneider’s work.

You can do that at www.bobschneider.com.

Bob Schneider; 7 p.m. Thursday, doors open 6 p.m.; $23.50-$35, plus fees, available through the venue; Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall Street; www.towertheatre.org.

—Ben Salmon, For The Bulletin