I love the song writing. The rock cover band is not
what I'm after.

2 limes
--- Joe Pecorino <jpecorino@...> wrote:

> this is the choir buddy. i think everyone of us has
> talked them up at some point.
>
> unfortunatly if you talk about them being a
> bluegrass band people are going to be VERY
> disapointed. electric bass, acoustic guitar with
> effects, keys, electric and acoustic dobro do not =
> bluegrass.
>
> and the setlists have had very few burle tunes on
> them at all. if you bill them as being the band with
> burles songs you will be even more disapointed when
> less than half of them are his originals. petes
> tunes and covers have been taking up the bulk of
> their shows.
>
> and btw--burle and todd shaeffer are my two
> favorite songwriters, i dont really think it is
> anywhere near possible, or appropriate, to compare
> them.
>
>
>
>
>
> spotteddogmemphis <spotteddogmemphis@...>
> wrote:
> The Wayword Sons are one of the sickest
> new bluegrass ensembles in the
> bluegrass game these days. They are even breaking
> boundaries with the
> instrumentation that they use. Remember, Burle wrote
> a lot of the
> songs that Yonder plays, more respect needs to be
> given to Burle and
> the boys. If you are at a Wayword Sons show or
> happen to see them,
> keep the setlist and post it up. I think they are
> better than many of
> the bands that get more traffic on their sites (RRE,
> HBR, don't get me
> wrong, I like both RRE and HBR, but the songs that
> Burle writes are
> just the best you can get these days). Even though I
> had only 20
> people at the show in Memphis, they played like
> there were over a 100
> people there. They were very nice about it too.
> Sorry about the
> rambling, but if you are a Yonder fan, you should be
> a Wayword Sons fan
> by default. People need to start showing support to
> this band because
> they will not be around much longer, if they have to
> play empty shows
> for $5 a pop. Stop taking bands like this for
> granted because they
> could break up and be gone tomorrow, which would
> make me and many
> others very sad.
> Mike in Memphis.
>
>
>
>
>
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