OLIVER WOOD of The Wood Brothers + SETH WALKER at Shank Hall – Milwaukee, WI

Get your tickets to see OLIVER WOOD of The Wood Brothers + SETH WALKER in Milwaukee, WI. Happening on Monday, April 28, 2025 at Shank Hall. Doors open at 7:30 PM.

Whenever Oliver Wood isnt touring with The Wood Brothers the Grammy-nominated roots trio that he co-founded in 2006 he typically begins his mornings the same way: in Nashville, at home, with a coffee cup in his hand and a notebook in his lap. Theres a chair in my living room, right in front of a window, he says. Every morning, I go down there to drink my coffee, meditate, and write. Its like a therapy session for me, because I can write without any specific goal in mind. I can be creative without being self-judgmental. Many of the songs from Fat Cat Silhouette, Woods second solo record, began taking shape in that chair. Produced by his Wood Brothers bandmate Jano Rix, its an album of unexpected twists and turns. Longtime fans will recognize the earnest, elastic voice that has always anchored the Wood Brothers mix of forward-looking folk and southern country-funk, but Fat Cat Silhouette doesnt spend much time looking backward. Instead, it abandons convention, breaks a few rules, and positions Oliver Wood as a roots-music innovator whos every bit as interested in the process as the product. I wanted to get outside my box and embrace the uncertainty of whats out there, he explains. I wanted weird guitar tones. The song Yo I Surrender has the worst guitar sound Ive ever heard in my life, and I just love it. I wanted more percussion and less drums. Once we began experimenting and doing whatever we wanted, the pressure melted away and I felt liberated. On the albums opener, Light and Sweet, Wood matches an imaginative storyline with a melody that leaps from ground level into the stratosphere. Eight songs later, he brings things to a close with Fortune Drives the Bus, which he recorded on an iPhone in his own backyard. While tracking the rest of Fat Cat Silhouette to analog tape, Wood pushed himself to keep things weird. This is an album that finds the art in the unexpected, and Oliver Wood whose songwriting and vocal chops remain as sharp as ever at his most adventurous.

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