The Waybacks - From the Pasture to the Future
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Track List: From the Pasture to the Future
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- The Petrified Man
- From The Pasture To The Future
- Helping Me
- Bluebird Waltz
- Motorway
- Hot Kranski
- Ninety-One
- Armando's Rhumba
- The Blacksmith
- Monkey Pants
- Strange Attractor
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Album Details: From the Pasture to the Future
- Release Date:
- 01/01/2006
- Label:
- Compass Records
- UPC:
- 766397443027
User Reviews: From the Pasture to the Future
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Acoustic string jazz-grass and swing
, May 1, 2006
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Pro Reviews: From the Pasture to the Future
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews The Chicago Tribune says that the Waybacks offer "a nearideal balance of irreverence, chops, discipline and originality," and that actually sums it up quite well. This primarily acoustic folkrock group is irreverent about genre boundaries, jumping gleefully back and forth between the lines that separate blues from bluegrass, rock from jazz and Celtic music from pop, but they're never so irreverent that they just sound goofy. Their chops are considerable, but (in the studio anyway) they never lapse into wanky selfindulgence. Their discipline and originality are manifest in tightly written, hookfilled songs and unusual arrangements, and all of those qualities come together beautifully in this, the group's fourth album. From the Pasture to the Future offers brilliant instrumental hot jazz ("Monkey Pants", "Hot Kranski"), a sharply rocking kissoff song ("Helping Me", which features the timeless couplet "It's not that you're bad for me/It's just that you're bad"), and a very fine rhumba ("Armando's Rhumba"). It also features a funny folkrock number titled "Petrified Man" and a beautiful Texasstyle dance number called "Bluebird Waltz". The Waybacks are not terribly convincing as purveyors of straightup traditional Irish music, as "The Blacksmith" demonstrates, but everything else works so well that you hardly even notice that one. Very highly recommended. - Rick Anderson, All Music Guide |
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The traditional sounds of old-timey string band music is only element of the musical tapestry woven by San Francisco-based quintet the Waybacks. ~Roots Town Music Magazine called them "a dream combination of punk vandalism and hyper-intelligent, seld...Full The Waybacks Biography
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Pros: Impressive variety for an acoustic band.
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This acoustic quartet's playing and harmonizing suggests bluegrass, but there's a lot more happening on their fourth album than traditional string music. In particular, there's light drumming throughout, no banjo, and little material from the standard bluegrass repertoire. The band's originals are heavy on instrumental virtuosity and interplay, venturing into similar jam-band territory as Leftover Salmon, but with concise arrangements and gypsy-jazz swing reminiscent of revivalists like Hot Club of Cowtown. In addition to their originals, the band's hand-picked covers include a tight arrangement of Chick Corea's "Amando's Rhumba" and a tuba-lined take of Ray Davies' 1972 Kinks' klassic, "Motorway." The variety that the band creates with acoustic instruments is interesting, but the seamlessness of their segues from hot jazz to folk-rock to twangy mountain and Celtic sounds is truly impressive. [ ...