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Slick Lilly Reunion Show w/ Caddle
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Saturday November 28, 2009 at 9:00 PM
The WorkPlay Theatre
Ticket Prices:
General Admission
$15.00
advance; $20.00
day of show
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THE SLICK LILLY REUNION IS ALL 5 ORIGINAL MEMBERS
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Caddle | 9:00 PM
 The Alabama ensemble known as Caddle has infused everything from snarling punk themes to heartache country lines, bluegrass breakdowns and furious Southern rock backbeats in their music, while steadily expanding their profile and audience the past two years through extensive touring and serving as the opening act for everyone from Hayseed Dixie and Lynyrd Skynyrd to Webb Wilder, Bobby
Bare, Jr. and Billy Joe Shaver.
They’ve also become very popular among Nashville audiences due to several appearances on Billy Block’s Western Beat, where they return for another engagement tonight at 12th and Porter.
“Nashville has become one of our most significant stops,” lead vocalist Phillip Hyde said. “Appearing on Western Beat has helped us sharpen and better define our core sound, which is really country with a Southern rock underpinning. In the beginning we got called kind of a country-punk band because of our attitude on stage, which is very energetic and almost kind of ‘in-your-face.’ But musically,
there’s not really much of the punk sound happening anymore, much more
country and Southern rock, presented in a fierce fashion.”
Interestingly, getting the right sound combination has also resulted in considerable personnel tinkering. “We went through about quite a few bassists and drummers before we really got the type of musicians that understand exactly what the Caddle sound is all about,” Hyde added.
With guitarists Drew Akin and Eric Watters each capable of doing explosive solos or exciting accompaniment, and bassist Chris Pottratz and drummer Finney James proving a capable and challenging rhythm section, Hyde’s now free to move in almost any vocal direction.
Hyde adds that the varying audiences they’ve been appearing before recently have also helped sharpen their musical focus, something that’s evident on their recent debut CD produced by Grammy winner Don McCollister.
“When we were opening for Billy Joe Shaver it was an older crowd and we did an acoustic set,” Hyde continued. “But when we’ve worked with groups like Hayseed Dixie or the Burden Brothers, younger audiences also really enjoy the blend of country and rock. The key thing we’ve discovered is that it really isn’t that much of a stretch between a lot of the elements in the Southern rock wing and in really
rocking country. Everyone responds to honest, driving music, and that’s what we’re emphasizing now, both in our show and on our disc.”
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Slick Lilly | 10:00 PM
 Slick Lilly is fronted by the great Austin Hanks. Born in Palmerdale, Alabama, the son of a local police officer, Austin was raised on a diet of Country Blues, Gospel and FM Rock. Austin began his music career by writing his first song in the fifth grade and forming a band with his schoolmates and he has never looked back. After numerous awards and wins in country talent shows and high school contests, things got a little more serious in college, when Austin started the Americana rock act Slick Lilly. As the band's popularity grew regionally, Austin began breaking attendance records in standing room only clubs and shows and opening for such acts as the Black Crowes, Georgia Satellites, Bodeans, Blues Traveller, Reverend Horton Heat, Widespread Panic, Jesus Jones, Squeeze, Peter Frampton and entire Summer tours with Drivin'n'Cryin and others. With the Slick Lilly, Austin's song "Light of the Trail" brought the band national exposure when it became the number one most requested song for five weeks on Birmingham's 100,000 watt Top 40 radio station Kicks 106, an unprecedented feat for an unsigned band. The Band signed with Indie Label Kudzu and inked a management deal with New Era Management. Slick Lilly soon had a rock radio hit coast to coast with the Waddy Watchel produced "Dirty Water", another Hanks song. The band toured constantly, landing a spot on the Ted Nugent/Bad Summer Tour in 1995. The rigorous touring took its toll on Slick Lilly and after one fateful tour several of the band members decided call it quits and band dissolved.
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