The Waybacks are Hungry.

AUSTIN DAZE: What do you guys think about being at Old Settlers?

Warren Hood: We’ve been here many times before and we like it because we like having the Waybacks in Austin and letting all our friends and family here see what we’re off doing all the time. We’ve got a lot of friends that think the Waybacks don’t exist-that we made them up.

James Nash: We like to come to Austin because obviously it’s a beautiful festival and a lot of great people here but we mostly come to Austin for the food. 8 days of queso.

Joe : There is good Mexican food in California but it is totally different. Read the rest of this entry »

[fa:p:a=72157594267830938,id=235372854,j=r,s=s,l=p]ONE OF THE PERKS OF THIS OCCUPATION IS THAT WE HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT DOWN AND CHAT WITH SOME OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE. BéLA FLECK IS A MUSICAL GENIUS. WHAT HE HAS DONE WITH THE BANJO IS AMAZING, ALMOST INTERPLANETARY. WHENEVER I SEE HIM PLAY, IT IS ALWAZE AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE. HIS MUSIC REALLY KNOWS NO BOUNDS. HE HAS TRANSCENDED BLUEGRASS AND TAKEN HIS BANJO ALL OVER THE WORLD INTO COUNTLESS SOUNDS AND CULTURES. WHAT HE DOES IN THE JAZZ WORLD WITH HIS BAND THE FLECKTONES IS NOTHING SHORT OF AMAZING. HE IS THE BEST AT WHAT HE DOES ON THIS PLANET. THAT MIGHT SEEM LIKE A TALL CLAIM UNTIL YOU HAVE HEARD HIM JAM. THEN IT IS HARD TO DISPUTE. AND TO THINK IT WAS THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES THAT SPARKED HIS INTEREST IN THE BANJO. Read the rest of this entry »

I could not believe my eyes when I first saw SLR at the Old Settler’s Bluegrass festival. I think I said “what the hell” repeatedly with a tone of disbelief mixed with interest. Damn. They are good. Split Lip Rayfield owned a three night stretch on South Congress recently. These guys have an original sound, to say the least. They are difficult to class. I’d say they are somewhere around- acoustic/ bluegrass/punk with an attitude- a loud and fast attitude. Imagine Johnny Rotten or Metallica sitting in with Bill Monroe. Read the rest of this entry »