Fri 9/21 @ 7:30PM
If the air is getting nippy, you know that the barn season at Oberlin’s Riverdog Retreat is coming to an end, and the shows will soon be moving indoors to the gallery. But before that happens Woody Pines is coming back for his fifth appearance there.
Acoustic troubadour Pines launched his career via busking, so he’s well-traveled and adaptable to many different circumstances. He grew up in New Hampshire and had a band up in the Pacific Northwest with future Old Crow Medicine Show member Gill Landry, spent some time in New Orleans and Europe, and is now based in Nashville.
Not surprisingly, you’ll find traces of most of the byways of American traditional music in his sound: blues, honky tonk, jug band, Appalachian. His label, Muddy Roots, which released his 2015 self-titled album, calls it “hillbilly boogie.”
“Hillbilly boogie sits at the exact moment when the buzzed- out, electrified hillbilly country music of Appalachia first hit the sawdust-floored honky-tonks of old Nashville and Memphis,” they say. “In Woody’s music, there’s never an idea that roots music should be a recreation of an older time. Instead, he taps the vein of this music that’s still beating today, finding common ground with the old hucksters and bar-hounds who created the music in the first place.”
Lorenzo’s wood-fired pizza will be back onsite to warm bellies with their pies, but you are also welcome, as always to bring your picnic basket and cooler. Admission is a $15 donation at the gate, $5 for students, 12 and under free. Make a parking or table reservation at 440-965-8309.
Wakeman, OH 44889