Andy Mulhern Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Vocoustics Promotions Presents:WOODY PINES (playing 2 sets)Sunday 24th AprilThe Blue Lamp (121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, AB25 1BU)Phone: 01224 647472Tickets available from 1UP Records or from The Blue Lamp bar.10/8 from 8pmwww.woodypines.comThere was a time when Woody Pines went out alone with resonator guitar to make a name for himself in Louisiana, then playing coast-to-coast across the USA.He teamed up with Gill Landry (Old Crow Medicine Show) to form The Kitchen Syncopators and they made great music together for a couple of years.These days Woody fronts a hot little band with the same name, that has become one of the busiest on the Stateside roots music circuit, winning accolades aplenty and praise from some of the giants of the Americana scene.He and Gill remained close buddies and together, they produced the band's latest album, Counting Alligators, which won rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.Constant playing companion, Zach Pozebanchuk has been in from the early days and Lyon Graulty one of the classiest dudes on the circuit, from stints with The Amity Front and Lauren Ambrose and The Leisure Class stepped in to the line-up to add a new dynamic to the Trio's sound, switching from slide guitar to clarinet and adding some harmony vocals.After seeing the band at the 2010 Nelsonville Folk & Blues Festival in Ohio, Billy Joe Shaver, the top gun Outlaw Country legend described by Willie Nelson as "possibly the best songwriter alive today," declared: "They're the best damn band I've ever heard!"Woody Pines won legions of new fans when they toured the UK last year."a rollicking, engagingly idiosyncratic amalgam of American old-time, blues and jug band, the songs of Cajun queens, dusty highways and speakeasies informed not only by squalling harmonica and whumping bass but a conviction that makes them sound about six decades older than they really are" (The Scotsman)'"intoxicating blend of rural and urban stringband, country blues, ragtime and jug band music" (Maverick Magazine)www.vocoustics.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Mulhern Posted April 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Bump for tonight...Cool video for "Root Hog or Die"Woody Pines - Root Hog or Die on Vimeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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