From the Pasture to the Future
Possessing dazzling instrumental chops and an absolute mastery of acoustic musical styles, The Waybacks are an eclectic quintet, steeped in an array of Americana idioms. Whether mesmerizing audiences at intimate venues or creating a sensation at major festivals, the band has brought its onstage alchemy to enthusiastic fans far and wide. On From the Pasture to the Future, the band has captured that aesthetically pleasing mix while adding a bit of spit and polish courtesy of esteemed producer Lloyd Maines. Follow The Waybacks on their their collective muse through a landscape littered with driving, melody-laden rock (“The Petrified Man”), an elegant fiddle waltz (“Bluebird Waltz”), a Kinks cover reinvented with New Orleans second line inflections (“Motorway”) and a jazz-tinged rumba (Chick Corea’s “Armando’s Rhumba”).The band features Stevie Coyle (rhythm and fingerstyle guitar, vocals), James Nash (lead guitar, mandolin, vocals), Joe Kyle Jr. (double-bass, vocals), Chuck Hamilton (drums