Played in or filled in with these fine music mates along the trip: Bob Childers, Scott Evans, Dustin Pittsley, Brad James, Don Morris,Jessie & Scott Aycock, Corey Mauser, Stoney LaRue, Steve Littleton, Wade Bowen, Red Dirt Rangers, The Great Divide, Randy Crouch, Cross Canadian Ragweed, The Stragglers, Mike McCure, Eric Hanson, Tom Skinner, Jeffery Parker, Farmboy, Jimmy Karstien, Rufus 'Rip' Wembley, Curtis Moore, Brandon Jenkins, Django Walker, Jimmy LaFave, Forrest Jourdan,...........
Influences
Everyone who has made an honest musical sound.......I look for it in everyone's efforts. Of course, several certainly made a noticeable impression on my own playing that I certainly think contributes to my own sound. Overall, I love southern classic rock that leans hard to the improvisational....the Allman Brothers and such. Jazzy stuff from Miles to funky New Orleans R&B is a big deal and also the reggae farther south. Gospel and organ based jazz is most excellent........if I could play a Hammond a tenth as well as Jimmy Smith I'd play one full time!!! I even have classical and theatre music influences from early on. The only thing that doesn't influence me but seems to be defined as musical would be commercial pop, bubblegum, and techno dance loops.
Sounds Like
I hope I sound like me..... playing with them...whomever THEM may be. Seriously, when I play with Dustin Pittsley, that is a pretty an okie blues/rock ordeal much like Gov't Mule and the like. I also do a good deal of Red Dirt Music as well which is a regional blend of midwestern genres from country and swing to folk, blues and rock. While Red Dirt has a wide set of parameters that define it, it is unique and pure Okie in all aspects. I have been blessed to have been a part of it's blossoming the past decades and to have played with the songwriters and others who have helped to influence my style......
Record Label
Atlantic, Universal South, Smith Group, Var. Indie
Woody's Stuff:
1995 Custom Modulus Quantum Series 5-string Bass, Phil Lesh P/U mod on EMG's
1999 Custom Fender Jazz 5-string Fretless Bass, active P/U mod
1987 Ampeg SVT-200T Bass Amplifier
1994 SWR SM900S Bass Amplifier
4x10 SWR Goliath2 w/ custom EV drivers
2x10 EV loaded extension cab
2 1x15 Custom Bag-End cabs
EAW Stage Monitors
Dunlop Model 105Q Bass Wah
Boss Tuners
Shure SM58 Micrphones for Vocals
AKG 112 Microphones for cabinents w/ DI mix
Woody uses Dean Markley SR2000 Will Lee Custom Guage Strings exclusively on all fretted basses and RotoSound Nickel Core Black Nylon Flatwounds on fretless.
I was born in Stillwater,Okla. (ground zero to Red Dirt) and then quickly removed to the Louisiana & Mississppi Delta region to spend my youth and teens among levee's, cotton farms and southern FM soul radio. Returning to Oklahoma during high school, I eventually attended OSU where my induction into the Red Dirt Music clan began. ALthough I had an early music training through school, I wouldn't pursue contemporary music seriously until falling in these circles at OSU. It seemed returning to my origin of earthly entry gave me a musical purpose.....or at least one better than what MTV was beginning to create and sell.
From here my roots really started to dig in and take a firm anchoring in being a part of the local gang of songsters. They would forge and become the known faces among a style of music that was now being given it's own name...Red Dirt Music. Being in this list as a long time trusted backline player is an honor itself but I also managed to co-write several Red Dirt "standards" along the way and they continue to be re-recorded.
Currently I play with Dustin Pittsley, an Okie native guitarist with a natural talent for blues guitar. I also continue to side with local/regional writers and likewise write and record. Recently, I am spending more time towards doing more recording and production, both for others as well myself.
lmao...yes my dear, the pretzel is all yours but Im so thinking Im gonna need that hairclip tonight!!! I didnt even notice that, I was just trying to get them on here so you guys could see!
Thursday November 6th 7pm – in the City Auditorium FREE Folk Festival Queens Contest featuring Noah Earle and 3 Penny Acre
Friday November 7th 2:00pm to 5:00pm – Open Mic in the Gem FREE
7:30pm – in the City Auditorium $20 Tickets Vagabond Van (featuring Greg Klyma and Tom Bianchi) Patty Larkin
Saturday November 8th 10am to Noon – Songwriters Contest Finals in Basin Spring Park FREE
10:00am to 1:00pm – Open Mic in the Gem FREE
1pm – in the City Auditorium Still on the Hill, OZARK, A Celebration In Song FREE
2pm – Folk Festival PARADE (Downtown, Spring Street)
4pm to 6pm – in the City Auditorium Songwriters in the Round $17 Tickets Natalia Zukerman Danielle Miraglia Raina Rose Maia Archote (2007 Songwriter’s Contest Winner)
7pm – in the City Auditorium 3 Penny Acre
Songwriters in the Round $25 Tickets Jonathan Byrd Greg Klyma Tom Bianchi John Elliott Danielle Miraglia Raina Rose
Sunday November 9th
2pm – "Motherhood of Love" concert with Melanie Safka $25 Tickets
Hey Donnie Wood! Just droping this in. All ages! $8 Benefit For a Good Cause. For a day full of music starts at 12pm until midnight. RLC takes stage at 8:30-9:30 Saturday evening. The Blend Coffee House 219 S. Main St. Broken Arrow, OK 74014 918-286-0046
