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For those of you who attended the St. Patty’s Day “Homegrown” musicfest (on a TUESDAY…) you know what’s up. You will need to remove the chain… cuz this event will…be… off it. So far the lineup includes:

Tommy D.

Dragna

Jason Throws Whiskey

eleven40

The Southern Brothers

KBob & The Last Stand Band

Another Year Colder

Neptune Locals

& Your’s Truly The WoodGrain
Sound by A-B Productions

Festivities will be announced as the event draws closer. If you’ve ever been to a “Pimps & Ho’s” party… you’ll understand how much more diversity you’ll be offered in costume choice @ a “Boats & Ho’s” party. The whole thing is scheduled to kickoff around 3:30 on Sat. Oct. 24th. Nine great (diverse) local bands plus contests & all sorts of other … adult activities for a measley $10 cover charge. Please, don’t be one of the few unlucky souls to have to complain of missing it.

The mood was tense as we plodded through traffic into Fort Worth on our way to play The Ridglea Theatre’s 2nd ‘New Band’ night. Would we be on the main stage or the ‘upstairs lounge’ stage? How many people would show up simply for us? For all the bands? And who? For that matter, who were the other bands? What kind of music would THEY play? These many questions rattled around in our heads. Not doubts. Questions.
The first of four bands to play that night was El Show. I didn’t get a chance to speak to these cats because we played 2nd, rite after them. They were tight & efficient without losing there groove-ability. Sort of 311 on zanax with a little Sublime in there somewhere. A good, head bobbing, mellow mix. They seemed to have a good crowd too.
Next of course was…us. The WoodGrain. It was our first show ever in Fort Worth, and certainly our first show in such a large and popular music venue. We WERE on the main stage by the way. Our rather sizeable devoted following was just perfectly early. THANKS SO MUCH ALL OF YOU!!!! And . . .we The WoodGrain were right on time. As I stated earlier, we had many questions, and…if there were ANY doubts…we killed’em…dead. It was a perfect showcase of what one WoodGrain fan would later call a “precise slacked’ness” reminiscent of The Rolling Stones. A huge yet warranted compliment. The same fan also threw us a huge and unwarranted after party with frozen pizzas and beer. Ah the rock & roll life….
We were called back for a four song encore during which we layed to waste some of our better cover material with a brash nod toward virsatility.
The only other band I can comment on was Neptune Local. They will be jammin’ on the same bill with us again on the main stage at The Ridglea Sat. Aug. 15th. With regard to their sound…? I’d say soft metal meets hard reggea, but… with SOUL. They will get you movin’ and feelin good.