There’s another great show tonight that folks should get out to see – Woody Pines at the Grey Eagle. They’ll be there with the Red Stick Ramblers.
Pines is quickly blowing up, and he and his bandmates deserve the credit. Quick note here from loyal reader Loudon in the UK:
Hi. Woody Pines will play their final UK gig tomorrow at the Eastgate Theatre in Peebles. They played to capacity crowds on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and have been winning terrific reviews and load of radio plays. The band returns to Asheville (flying back from Scotland on Wednesday) to play with The Red Stick Ramblers at The Grey Eagle on Thursday night.
Check this out. It’s written by Rob Adams, widely regarded as one of our better writers.
Here’s an excerpt, from The Herald in Scotland:
Along with celebrations of the joys of tobacco chewing, train songs are the North Carolina-based quartet’s specialism and with slap bass propulsion, woo-wooing fiddle and piston-like brush strokes on the snare drum accompanying Pines’s guitar picking, they have this latter genre down to a swaggering art. In concentrating so much on this hectic style, however, they may have undersold themselves a little because when they moved into vintage jazz, ragtime and Louisiana-style blues, and especially when Pines produced an amiable take on Satisfied and Tickled Too, they showed a musicality that was easily as memorable as their more rambunctious exploits.
Cheers – Loudon Temple