Woody Pines - National Guitar, harmonica, cord organ, kazoo, banjo.
Tim Peacock~ Bass.
Bram Riddlebarger - stripped down drums, suitcase bass
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Woody Plays Solo, Opening for The Everybodyfields.
Woody Pines @ Stuart's Opera House 4.18.08 ..
Influences
Charlie Chaplin, Uncle Dave Macon, Bob Dylan, Erik Weisz, Buddy Rich, Mark Twain, Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, Ma Rainy, Emmett Miller, Frank lemon, Jack Elliot, Huddie Ledbetter, Johnny Mercer, Baby Gramps, Harry Lillis Crosby, Hank Williams, Leon Redbone,
Sounds Like
Foot stomping twang, Steam boat calliope, old records, juke stomp, Wait's meets Tennessee Two, Old Trains, The earliest rock 'n Roll, Mountain ballads.
Woody Pines & The Lonesome Two
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“Low-Fi sounds from weird America's rural roots. Resonator guitar, high lonesome harmonica, upright bass, stripped-down drums and foot stomping twang.”
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Woody Pines has been playing and singing since he can remember. He left home with his guitar on his back and made it through 49 states before he was 19. After landing on the west coast, he co-founded a ragtime jug band, The Kitchen Syncopators, which sold thousands of their self-released recordings. The Syncopators performed everywhere from the streets of New Orleans to Seattle’s Folklife Festival to the Oregon Country Fair.
After several years of living and playing in New Orleans, Woody headed for the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, playing old time music for dances, busking for tourists, and releasing his first solo cd, ‘Rags to Riches.’ Woody played shows all over the south, including a stop in Nashville for a guest appearance at the Grand Ole Opry with friends Old Crow Medicine Show.
Today, Woody continues to find ways to reshape the old music, weaving new stories from timeless threads. He combines freak realism and vaudeville showmanship with the sincerity and grace of the rich, traditional landscape of roots music. Woody plays with foot stomping gusto, but knows when to croon a lazy mountain ballad.
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The Lonesome Two is Tim Peacock on upright bass and Bram Riddlebarger on his stripped-down suitcase drum kit. The full band sound is featured on Woody’s newest release.
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"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
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"A delightful group with a rock solid sexy old time vaudville hill-billy groove" -Sxip Shirey of the Luminescent Orchestrii
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"...a taste of Southern folk and blues, spinning both country and jazz
into a musical depiction of America's Southern roots." -The Daily
Athenaeum, Morgantown, WV
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"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
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Woody Pines plays hollow notes that sound like they are reverberating in the basement of some neighbor’s house. Imagine if you took The Beta Band’s single vocal, stripped them of all sound and then replaced the feel of The Old Crowe Medicine show, adding drops of Bob Dylan and John Prine — that’s Woody Pines. ??
You are cordially invited to The Greensage Sat, July 19th @ 8pm in downtown Asheville for an evening of Misty, Country smoke and Trucker beat Folk with the Jangling Sparrow Come support the Greensage as they begin to support local music and the wine selection is outstanding
you are so cool, i luv your music. i do wish you were all here, you would fit right in. keep up the awesome music and tour and enjoy the summer sun, you rock, luv ya judy in the pscific northwest ....sandcastle fest next weekend! thanx friends
I made a couple of new recordings today, since it was raining and I was bored. There's "A Thing or Two About Heartache" and Townes Van Zandt's "Waitin' Round to Die" up on my site now, if you'd like to hear them. Take care!
