{"id":2452030,"date":"2019-12-10T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=317241"},"modified":"2019-12-10T02:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:00:01","slug":"wood-brothers-back-in-aspen-for-another-sold-out-belly-up-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/wood-brothers-back-in-aspen-for-another-sold-out-belly-up-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Brothers back in Aspen for another sold out Belly Up show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wood Brothers<\/a> are living the dream.<\/p>\n

The rootsy folk-blues trio had long fantasized about what they might do if they could write and record music on their own terms, Oliver Wood said in a phone interview. They found out on their 2018 album \u201cOne Drop of Truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Woods made it without a record label, produced it themselves and recorded it over the course of a year in independent Nashville studios. They funded it on their own with touring income. The result is what the band has described as its \u201cfree-est\u201d songs and its \u201cmost fun\u201d recording experience.<\/p>\n

 \u201cWe were not beholden to anyone financially or creatively and we just did it ourselves,\u201d Oliver Wood said. \u201cThat was very liberating. It just felt like, \u2018This is us.\u2019 We\u2019re having a great time doing it, so there\u2019s no pressure. It\u2019s just fun and this is how we sound when we do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trio will play a sold-out show at Belly Up Aspen on Wednesday night, in what\u2019s become an annual tradition of playing to a full house at Belly Up every December.<\/p>\n

The freedom of the recording process on their sixth album translates into a diverse group of songs that retain the Woods\u2019 well-established rustic folk sound, but with a jolt of sonic and stylistic playfulness. There\u2019s the upbeat and peppy \u201cHappiness Jones\u201d laced with a subversive social commentary. There\u2019s a sweet and stripped-down folk number \u201cStrange as it Seems,\u201d which stands alongside classic bare-bones Woods Brothers songs like \u201cPostcards from Hell\u201d and \u201cLuckiest Man.\u201d And there are boot-stomping Southern rock sing-alongs like \u201cThis Is It,\u201d which have been high points of the Woods\u2019 live show (captured on the recently released \u201cLive at the Fillmore\u201d concert album).<\/p>\n

Rather than writing songs for an extended period and then squeezing the recording process into a week or two in a studio, the trio went into the studio over the course of a year and recorded whenever a song was ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always fantasized about making albums a song at a time,\u201d Wood said. \u201cWrite a song you\u2019re excited about, record it, then move on to the next song.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though it was made in creative spurts, some themes emerge here that reflect our stormy times. There is, for example, quite a lot of apocalyptic weather in these new songs \u2014 a broken levee, stormy seas, hurricanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften that\u2019s subconscious,\u201d Wood said. \u201cIt\u2019s the coolest thing about artists: sometimes you create something and you don\u2019t know where you got it from until you look back in retrospect and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, man, that was during the election or that\u2019s when somebody dumped me or somebody died.\u201d<\/p>\n

Formed 13 years ago after the brothers Chris and Oliver each had separate, successful bands \u2014 bass player Chris with Medeski, Martin & Wood; guitarist Oliver as frontman for King Johnson \u2014 the Wood Brothers are round out by multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix. They\u2019ve become a staple at big summer festivals, with a devoted nationwide following and a reputation as a must-see live act.<\/p>\n

The Woods have made regular appearances at Belly Up in recent years, playing the club at least annually. But their Aspen connection goes back long before they were selling out the club every winter. Oliver and Chris spent boyhood summers in Aspen, when their father \u2014 a microbiologist \u2014 worked on textbooks with a locally based editor. Those days included classical music concerts at the Benedict tent and selling The Aspen Times on the streets. The family later moved to Boulder, where the Woods spent their high school years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have super fond memories of those places,\u201d Wood said. \u201cI love coming back there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Woods plan to keep making records the way they made \u201cOne Drop of Truth\u201d and have now obtained their own studio space to do it. There, he said, they plan to keep experimenting and relishing their creative freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to do things that we haven\u2019t done before and avoid things we have done in the past \u2014 try something new,\u201d Wood said. \u201cWe aren\u2019t sure what it is yet, but we know what it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

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via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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