AMP Concerts - Waybacks

Monday, June 9, 2008
The Waybacks
The Cooperage
7220 Lomas Blvd NE
(Just east of Louisiana)
7:30 PM
21 and over

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They draw freely from the old school and the old world, but The Waybacks are no throwback. They've been erroneously pigeonholed as a bluegrass band and celebrated as purveyors of "acoustic mayhem." They are as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, and for nearly a decade, their experiments have always proven sharp-witted and musically dazzling. They're living proof that in music anyway, evolution and intelligent design are entirely compatible.

They've been through changes for sure. Now a four-piece with a full arsenal of acoustic and electric instruments, The Waybacks are releasing Loaded, the boldest, rangiest and most exciting album of their career. Produced by Nashville bassist, composer and consummate sideman Byron House, it's a musical rebuke to anyone who would typecast true artistry.

The folk and roots underpinnings that have long been a Waybacks hallmark are still there, but after years of playing a huge range of venues and festivals, touring with Grateful Dead founder Bob Weir, and reconfiguring themselves around the hot guitar of James Nash and the fiddle virtuosity of Warren Hood, The Waybacks are enjoying a refreshed repertoire—one that's touched by Memphis soul, honky-tonk, Parisian swing, classical music, vintage blue pop and much more besides. Nash and Hood have stepped forward as songwriters, allowing The Waybacks to assemble their first project of entirely original music. They're finding a new collective voice, right before our ears.

"The music made by The Waybacks... features some of the most exotic settings for mind-blowing picking you'll ever hear. These guys are extraordinary musicians, and their spellbinding solos will leave you slack-jawed. They call their music 'acoustic mayhem.' I call it sheer genius."
-Michael Miller, BayArea.Com

$15 advance, $20 day of show.

Buy tickets on-line through Brown Paper Tickets
or by phone: 1-800-838-3006

Tickets also available (cash only plus $1 surcharge) at:

4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, 344-8139
Natural Sound, 3422 Central Ave. SE, 255-8295