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 There was a time when Woody Pines went out alone with resonator guitar to make a name for himself in Louisiana, then playing coast-to-coast across the USA.
He teamed up with Gill Landry (Old Crown Medicine Show) to form The Kitchen Syncopators and they made great music together for a couple of years.
These days Woody fronts a hot little combo with the same name, that has become one of the busiest on the Stateside roots music circuit, winning accolades aplenty and praise from some of the giants of the Americana scene.
He and Gill remained close buddies and together, they produced the band's last album, Counting Alligators, which won rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.
Constant playing companion, Zach Pozebanchuk has been in from the early days, entertaining percussionist Mike Gray brought a fresh brand of piz-zaz to the performance and Lyon Graulty - one of the classiest musicians on the circuit - joined the line-up to add a new dynamic and added layers of texture, switching between slide guitar and clarinet and popping in some sweet vocal harmonies.
After seeing the band at the 2010 Nelsonville Folk & Blues Festival, Billy Joe Shaver, the top gun Outlaw Country legend described by Willie Nelson as 'possibly the best songwriter alive today,' declared: "They're the best damn band I've ever heard!"
Woody Pines won legions of new fans when they toured the UK last year.
The Scotsman said they played 'a rollicking, engagingly idiosyncratic amalgam of American old-time, blues and jug band, the songs of Cajun queens, dusty highways and speakeasies informed not only by squalling harmonica and whumping bass but a conviction that makes them sound about six decades older than they really are.'
Maverick magazine praised their 'intoxicating blend of rural and urban stringband, country blues, ragtime and jug band music' .
The band has been playing dates in America with one of our all-time favourite roots jam bands, Donna The Buffalo.
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