Woody Pines
01 April 2010 (20:00 - 23:00)
Stompin' four piece band out of Asheville, North Carolina featuring Woody Pines ~ National Guitar, harmonica, cord organ, kazoo, banjo. Zack Pozebanchuk ~ Bass. Nathan Taylor ~ stripped down drums Darin Gentry ~ Fiddle
Work on the press releases for the forthcoming UK tour by the Asheville, North Carolina-based band, Woody Pines, who were invited by one of the UK’s evening papers to complete a Q&A list, threw up some interesting stuff about the band. Woody Pines himself started out playing with Gill Landry (Old Crow Medicine Show) when they formed a band called The Kitchen Syncopators in 1998 and worked out of New Orleans. Interestingly, Woody Pines have been back in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and were reportedly wowing the crowds there.
When asked what they are currently listening to, it presented some surprises: 'Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong along with contemporary Louisiana bands, the Red Stick Ramblers and Pine Leaf Boys. In between the front seats of our van are recordings by David Rawlings Machine, Bob Dylan, Lonnie Donegan, Leon Redbone and Karen Dalton'.
Bob Harris has of course, played tracks from the band’s brand new album, Counting Alligators as have all the presenters with the best taste at BBC Radio Scotland. The CD picked up a four-out-of-five-star rating from The Scotsman in a review that called the collection “a rollicking, engagingly idiosyncratic amalgam of old-time blues and jug band sensibilities”.
Meanwhile, Maverick magazine said of the album:
“What seals the deal is the superlative and simpatico playing of Pines and his band, who create a sprightly acoustic jam that has the toes tapping and the head nodding. Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor and Gill Landry (with whom Pines used to play) show up to help things along, and Aurora Nealand adds subtle accordion from time to time.
“Half the album is traditional and the remaining Pines originals slot in seamlessly between such classics as Casey Jones and Harlem, while Billy Briggs’ Chew Tobacco Rag is two minutes of irresistibility. It’s all incredibly throwback but that of course is its charm, and Pines is a respecter of the tradition as well as an expander of it. Stick on your pork pie hat, grab a slug of moonshine and cut yourself a rug.”
http://www.myspace.com/woodypines
http://woodypines.com/