- One cannot spend a good chunk of their childhood growing up in Beeville, TX without learning to play guitar and gaining a little respect for Hank Williams. That was honky-tonk country, and this gives you the very best brief history of how Slade Rivers came to music with respect for everything from Bluegrass to Texas Swing to Americana. This may also give you a hint of how Slade’s love for this history and his own songwriting formed the foundation for his new partnership with our old friend Bill Griffin. They brought their music together a couple of years ago and came to be known as “Slade & Elky, Those Windburn Bros.”
- In case you forgot, Bill Griffin is our dear old friend from the Cache Valley Drifters, who has played at Música Del Río many times. As “Elky McGroverson” this will be Bill’s first visit with Elky’s pal Slade. They have been waiting out the past year with time well spent (better than jail) in small roadhouse haunts just off Donner Pass, in the high country.
- Slade and Elky have promised us an evening of country/Americana from the 40’s to the 60’s designed to remind us of how country, folk and early rock and roll were often hard to separate. You also need to be here on Saturday, October 16 to get the real story about how Bill Griffin mutated into “Elky McGroverson”; and he and Slade became the Windburn Bros. Please join us. It should be a hoot.
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