Woody Pines
Asheville, North Carolina, United States | SELF
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"Woody Pines brings that low-key street corner style of performance to his stage show, but with all the polish and seasoned professionalism of a tour-bus-and-green-room rock stardom. If Pines’ elegantly-disheveled fedora and vintage resonator guitar don’t set the mood (both are strongly suggestive of the musician’s mix of ragtime, country blues and lightning-speed folk), the backing band does the trick. Crackerjack musicianship goes a long way toward a band’s greatness, but showmanship seals the deal. Pines, on stage, is an old soul and natural performer, storied and steeped in the best of American music."
- Alli Marshall Mtn. Xpress, Asheville, North Carolina - Alli Marshall, Mountain Xpress
"Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear.... I'm their biggest fan now!" -honky tonk hero, Billy Joe Shaver - Billy Joe Shaver
"Woody Pines & The Lonesome Two mix traditional old-time with rags and jump blues for a well-rounded representation of good music." ~ The Athens News - The Athens News
"Their sound was very much from the "old days", with deep roots tunes, and a distinct feeling of flapper girls and art deco, prohibition and Model T's. The depression era songs and American folk songs were a great and honest refresher... While they did play these old-time songs, they refrained from acting like anything but what they were: a great Americana band."-www.thabombshelter.com - www.thabombshelter.com
"A delightful group with a rock solid sexy old time vaudville hill-billy groove" -Sxip Shirey of the Luminescent Orchestrii - Sxip Shirey of the Luminescent Orchestrii
"In a pinch, Pines and his pair of cohorts might be described as a group that makes the type of American roots music that sounds good coming out of a busted AM radio speaker. In a tinny but effective voice that would make Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan proud, Pines croons about rounders, trains and good gals long gone, over a bouncy and unhurried blues picking style that keeps toes tapping with ease." ~ High Country Press, Boone, N. Carolina - High Country Press, Boone NC
Discography
1.Woody Pines and the Lonesome Two - January 2008
2.Counting Alligators - October 2009
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"Woody Pines brings that low-key street corner style of performance to his stage show, but with all the polish and seasoned professionalism of a tour-bus-and-green-room rock stardom....."
What is a Woody Pines...? "It's kind of an alt-personality, both a band and a person."
Crackerjack musicianship goes a long way toward a band’s greatness, but showmanship seals the deal. Pines, on stage, is an old soul and natural performer, storied and steeped in the best of American music. Live, the group infuses a hundred years of American music into their performance - early 20th century acoustic blues and Rock-a-billy to the sounds of the White Stripes and The Squirrel Nut Zippers. They'll even drop some New Orleans, R+B in the bag. It's a fast-paced, swinging, high-energy show.
The Band includes Zack Pozebanchuck on Upright Bass, Lyon Graulty on Clarinet, Lead Guitar and Vocal Harmonies, Mike Gray on Drums, and Woody on Guitar, Harmonica and Vocals. They create a Rock-a-billy, Halloween hootenanny that could have come
straight out of a time traveling vaudeville show. Their song "Counting Alligators" puts listeners straight into the backseat of a convertible with Doctor John and Professor Longhair, whipping around the back roads of the Delta on a crisp, autumn night. Several other songs by the band, such as "Nashville" and "Delta Bound", evoke thoughts of a
Southern gossip or a post-Civil War America where the blues weren't just a style of music, but a way of life. "We pick and choose the best sounding music in the world," says Pines, "and sing our own words and put our hearts and souls into that backdrop," creating a truly unique, and infectious style, never heard quite like this before...
Grab your girl, your pals, wear your soul on your sleeve and go see this band!
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