WOOD BROTHERS Play In-store at Horizon FRIDAY at 2pm!
Celebrating their fine acoustic roots music and the latest CD Loaded — YES, we are very very stoked to have the WOOD BROTHERS here Friday October 17 at 2pm for a WNCW Tower Of Song radio taping.
The Wood Brothers play the Orange Peel that Friday night at 8pm theorangepeel.net
Oliver and Chris Wood grew up in Boulder, Colorado. Sons of a Poet and a Microbiologist, they both took up music. Oliver moved to Atlanta and became a Southerner. Chris moved to New York City and became a Yankee. Now, after years of musical and geographical separation they have reunited. While in Atlanta, Oliver soaked up the roots of blues, the soul of the south, and found he had a talent for writing and singing songs.
His band, King Johnson (named after Freddy King and Robert Johnson) toured mostly in the southern states. Meanwhile, Chris was living in Manhattan playing everything from free jazz to rock and roll. This is where he met his band mates to form Medeski Martin & Wood. Now The Wood Brothers have begun a collaboration that combines their shared childhood influences with everything they’ve learned since leaving home. Their music has a rootsy feel that blends blues, folk, and rock music in a guitar/bass duo.
The brothers’ new album, “Loaded” produced by John Medeski, was released on Blue Note Records, April 1, 2008.
The Wood Brothers “Loaded” on CD
Owner, founder, resident Mahler fanatic since 1975. Loves jazz, bluegrass, worldbeat, and old geezer blues rock by Canned Heat or Johnny Winter. Obsessed with 60’s and 70’s era John Lee Hooker. Don’t ask him about the Eagles.
