06/17/2013 - Woody Pines in Concert
There’s a rambler at the heart of Woody Pines, a rounder nestled into the heart of his music. It’s the kind of rambler that motored Robert Johnson’s car, the vagabond spirit that pushed Kerouac on frenetic road trips across the US, the aimless soul that rode trains with Woody Guthrie. This trickster character is the very core of American roots music, and Woody Pines knows it well. His songs are filled with these characters: wandering broken hearts, swaggering pimps, crusty hobos, but he himself has lived these stories.....
.....Woody’s journey has taken him from street corners and smoky bars to folk festivals and the Grand Ole Opry, but he started with Bob Dylan. As a child, unable to read music, he made up new tunes for the Bob Dylan songbooks around his house. Later, he hitchhiked with a friend to visit his heroes such as Pete Seeger, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and Utah Philips. By the age of nineteen, he’d already played in forty-nine states. Since then he’s lived as a street performer in New Orleans, wandered the West Coast co-founding the legendary underground jugband The Kitchen Syncopators, set up home in a trailer in Asheville and now Nashville, and cut four solo albums full of his wickedly inventive musings on American roots music. His last album, You Gotta Roll, was lauded by No Depression as “old- time feel-good music done by a young master who clearly understands that this kind of music was always about having a great time,” and Pop Matters, who declared it “Vintage Americana Romp.”
With his brand-new, full-length album, Rabbits Motel, Woody Pines returns to the roads that have long inspired him, packing along his many inspirations, from Bill Haley to Leadbelly, Chuck Berry to Hank Williams, and Sam Cook to Doc Watson. True to form, most of the songs on the album are original, though we challenge you to tell us which ones just from listening. This is juke joint music, the kind of roadhouse songs that are made to get people up and dancing. With Rabbits Motel, Woody took the time to really use the studio to his advantage, bringing a much harder edge to his music. Still thoroughly grounded in the blues and rags of before, this album has a strong independent streak. The song “Hobo’s Bride” starts from a folk song foundation but winds up a kind of epic tale about young lovers. “Railroad Vine” speaks of long train travels while channeling a dusty Southwest vibe. The infectious opening song “Like I Do” bumps along like a pickup on an old dirt road, singing about shattered relationships. Woody Pines’ new full studio sound leaves the street corner behind, but open up rich new possibilities
“Rock solid sexy old time vaudeville hill-billy groove.” ~ Sxip Shirey of the Luminescent Orchestrii, NYC
On his new album, Rabbits Motel, (2013) Woody Pines plays with the American traditions he fell in love with years ago as a teenager. He subverts these traditions, pressing them into new shapes, forcing them through new genres, and building a new sound out of the junkyard scraps from over a century of recorded music
. But his album should come with a “Don’t try this at home” warning! Unless you’ve actually traveled the backroads of America like Woody, or unless you’ve spent countless hours poring over old 78s learning mostly forgotten old songs, don’t try what he’s attempting here! The reason Woody can push the envelope the way he does is because he loves the music so much.
Opening will be the Convict Trio (Daniel and Kris of Thrift Store Cowboysjoined with Sean Thomas Frankhouser) and Charlie Stout Duo!
$5 at the door
.....Woody’s journey has taken him from street corners and smoky bars to folk festivals and the Grand Ole Opry, but he started with Bob Dylan. As a child, unable to read music, he made up new tunes for the Bob Dylan songbooks around his house. Later, he hitchhiked with a friend to visit his heroes such as Pete Seeger, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and Utah Philips. By the age of nineteen, he’d already played in forty-nine states. Since then he’s lived as a street performer in New Orleans, wandered the West Coast co-founding the legendary underground jugband The Kitchen Syncopators, set up home in a trailer in Asheville and now Nashville, and cut four solo albums full of his wickedly inventive musings on American roots music. His last album, You Gotta Roll, was lauded by No Depression as “old- time feel-good music done by a young master who clearly understands that this kind of music was always about having a great time,” and Pop Matters, who declared it “Vintage Americana Romp.”
With his brand-new, full-length album, Rabbits Motel, Woody Pines returns to the roads that have long inspired him, packing along his many inspirations, from Bill Haley to Leadbelly, Chuck Berry to Hank Williams, and Sam Cook to Doc Watson. True to form, most of the songs on the album are original, though we challenge you to tell us which ones just from listening. This is juke joint music, the kind of roadhouse songs that are made to get people up and dancing. With Rabbits Motel, Woody took the time to really use the studio to his advantage, bringing a much harder edge to his music. Still thoroughly grounded in the blues and rags of before, this album has a strong independent streak. The song “Hobo’s Bride” starts from a folk song foundation but winds up a kind of epic tale about young lovers. “Railroad Vine” speaks of long train travels while channeling a dusty Southwest vibe. The infectious opening song “Like I Do” bumps along like a pickup on an old dirt road, singing about shattered relationships. Woody Pines’ new full studio sound leaves the street corner behind, but open up rich new possibilities
“Rock solid sexy old time vaudeville hill-billy groove.” ~ Sxip Shirey of the Luminescent Orchestrii, NYC
On his new album, Rabbits Motel, (2013) Woody Pines plays with the American traditions he fell in love with years ago as a teenager. He subverts these traditions, pressing them into new shapes, forcing them through new genres, and building a new sound out of the junkyard scraps from over a century of recorded music
. But his album should come with a “Don’t try this at home” warning! Unless you’ve actually traveled the backroads of America like Woody, or unless you’ve spent countless hours poring over old 78s learning mostly forgotten old songs, don’t try what he’s attempting here! The reason Woody can push the envelope the way he does is because he loves the music so much.
Opening will be the Convict Trio (Daniel and Kris of Thrift Store Cowboysjoined with Sean Thomas Frankhouser) and Charlie Stout Duo!
$5 at the door
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