| Information for SONS OF BILL - Show Has Been Canceled |
| Category: | Concert |
| Promoter: | The Neighborhood Theatre |
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Sons of Bill returns to Neighborhood Theatre, joins us for *FREE MUSIC NIGHT* and holiday cheer! It starts with the music. A sound that's all too familiar, yet somehow resists an easy definition. Too edgy for Nashville, but too earnest for New York. Drawing comparisons to artists ranging from George Jones to the Gin Blossoms Gram Parsons to Guns and Roses Sons of Bill have been called "equal parts raucous and reflective." A sound which is revolutionary only in its simplicity. It starts with the music because it started with the music. Bill Wilson's three eldest sons grew up listening to him fingerpick old country tunes around the house. They learned to sing harmony at family holidays and inherited old guitars with their hand-me-down jeans. The past two decades sent James, Sam and Abe in disparate musical directions: teenage heavy metal fests, old-time barn dances, college bars and New York City jazz clubs. But in 2005 the brothers all returned one from a cattle ranch in Nevada, one from an apartment in Brooklyn, one from Grad school in Maryland and for the first time in their lives they began to make music together. With the addition of long-time friends Seth Green and Brian Caputo, Bill's sons became Sons of Bill. With a live show known to evolve from acoustic ballads into sweaty stage-dives, Sons of Bill has gained a loyal fan base from Florida to NYC, sharing the stage with acts ranging from Robert Randolph to Robert Earl Keen. The Wiggle Wagons open |
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| Sons of Bill | Sons of Bill have been satisfying appetites up and down the East Coast for three years. They put their opening songs out in the spring of 2006 on an album called A Far Cry From Freedom, and sold 8,000 copies of it off the stage. Along the way, they signed with Red Light Management, the Charlottesville, Virginia, firm which handles the Dave Matthews Band, the Decemberists, Cheap Trick, and several dozen other artists. That may have something to do with storied producer Jim Scott (Rick Rubins long-time engineer, producer for Wilco, Whiskeytown, and Tom Petty, among others) signing on for One Town Away, but Jim Scott doesnt have to do anything he doesnt want to do. We just kind of took a wild shot, James says on a borrowed cell phone, driving around Charlottesville trying to get ready for a show. Were committed to staying away from the big labels, and so we saved our pennies from playing frat parties and stuff, and we just sent him our demos. He called us up, and said, Im going to produce the new Wilco album, but I got three weeks. Can you get out to California? And so we got on a plane. It was really pretty simple. And it is a pretty straight-forward album, at that. Were a five-piece band, James says. We told him we wanted to sound like a band in a room. We didnt want to sound like we were getting shot out of a digital projector. Everythings hard panned. My guitars on one side, Sams guitar is on the other side. It sounds like a band. Almost no compression, no auto tune on the whole record. Scott did bring in the famed guitarist Greg Leisz to add some steel guitar lines to four tracks. Hes was a real searcher, and really searched for the right parts, James says. Thats him and Sam doing dueling guitars on Rock And Roll. (Yes, it rocks; and, yes, James took pictures of the occasion.) |
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| The Wiggle Wagons | What are "Wiggle Wagons?" In the old days, it was a term used by truckers to describe a tractor pulling more than one trailer like a serpent down the highway. Today, it's the name of one of the most innovative bands in music! Just like the tractor pulling the opposing forces of multiple trailers into one forward moving behemoth, the band pulls influences from across the spectrum into one cohesive sound that has been dubbed "Country Shred"! It's Buck Owens meets Guns N Roses with pop melodies...in the words of the immortal Jerry Reed, "Son!" The band was co-founded by singer/songwriter Daniel Grigg and lead guitarist Bud Burke in San Jose, California. Daniel, to deal with his new surroundings, had begun to turn his southern born and bred experiences into tales of hardship and loss. Meanwhile Bud was touring the world as a bass guitar player but, knew his real calling was to combine his lightning fast rock guitar chops with his new love for country twang. Seeing a common vision and musical direction, they began filling out Daniel's rough and rowdy tales, turning them into radio ready sing a-longs. The two quickly added bass player Kevin Taylor and drummer Chris Slezak to solidify the lineup. Now calling themselves "The Wiggle Wagons", the band began playing stages, big and small, throughout California and Nevada quickly gaining the reputation as one of California's best live acts and sharing the stage with the likes of David Allen Coe, The Bastard Sons Of Johnny Cash, Dick Dale, Deke Dickerson, Lit, and many more. In Spring 2009 The Wiggle Wagons decided to head south and relocate to Daniel and Kevin's home state of North Carolina settling in Charlotte. To introduce their sound to the Carolinas, the Wagons began playing local stomps like The Double Door, Snug Harbor, Tremont Music Hall, The Visulite, and any stage with an audience. |
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