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The Wooten Brothers
12+ albums
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The Wooten Brothers combine a mixture of Funk, Garage and R&B music. Joined by drummer Raymond Massey, bassist John Billings and Roger Williams on sax, these six musicians lay waste to the typically drab Nashville Wednesday evening and leave audiences with a night of unbelievable musicianship. When in town on tour, celebrity musicians and artists will drop by to sit in or pay homage. This übermusical band-of-brothers has been entertaining audiences since childhood, racking up experience points with the likes of the great Curtis Mayfield before striking out on careers of their own. Victor Wooten, the clan’s most famous son, is widely considered to be one of the foremost working bassists today or in any day, for that matter. With his incredible musical sensitivity and an eye-popping, failsafe technique, Vic can put on an astounding show with nothing more than his lonesome—and maybe a drummer. He credits his brother Regi and bassists Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, and Larry Graham as major influences, and his main gig in recent years has been with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, a challenging and rewarding (but quite danceable) jazz-bluegrass-fusion ensemble whose music you mustn’t let pass you by whether in the flesh or on record. Joseph Wooten (”Hands of Soul, Voice of Gold”) is an astute keyboardist and a winsome vocalist whose touring credits include, among others, the Steve Miller Band. This gentleman is a master of all musical idioms with a warm and easy stage presence
