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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Doors 6pm | Show 7:30pm | Downstairs Live
The Wood Brothers
Oliver and Chris Wood grew up in Boulder, Colorado. Sons of a Poet and a Microbiologist, they both took up music. Oliver moved to Atlanta and became a southerner. Chris moved to New York City and became a Yankee. Now, after years of musical and geographical separation they have reunited. While in Atlanta, Oliver soaked up the roots of blues, the soul of the south, and found he had a talent for writing and singing songs. Meanwhile, Chris was playing everything from free jazz to rock and roll. This is where he met his band mates to form Medeski Martin & Wood.
The Wood Brothers have began as a collaboration that combines their shared childhood influences with everything they've learned since leaving home. Their 2008 release, Loaded, finds the duo engaged in a more expansive musical dialogue that commenced well before they hit the studio; they collaborated for the first time on writing material together.
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