Folk singer Mack Bailey and Bay Area acoustic quintet The Waybacks play back-to-back shows this weekend at Steve’s Guitars in Carbondale. Bailey, who takes the tiny stage in Steve’s listening room on ...

When The Waybacks take the stage, unpredictability rules. The band, which has become known for its “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to crowd pleasing will bring their acoustic mayhem to ...

James Nash, the guitarist/singer/songwriter who founded The Waybacks, didn't appreciate his roots in bluegrass until he moved from Nashville to attend college in ...

The clues are out and the fans are guessing. Going on it’s fourth year, The Hillside Album Hour hosted by The Waybacks has turned into one of the most anticipated events at Merlefest. Take a look at ...

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They draw freely from the old school and the old world, but The Waybacks are no throwback. They are as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay Area that claims them, and for ...

The word “eclectic’ is a big no no in journalism, used only when there’s nothing else to say about a band, a play, a performance. Yet there’s no word as fitting for the Waybacks. Using newgrass ...

In the progressive-string-band scene that sprawls from the new-grass of the Seldom Scene to the jazz-grass of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, from the world-grass of the David Grisman Quintet to the ...

Are you one of those people who charge around town with a “Real Musicians Have Day Jobs” sticker on the back of his car? Good for you. Instead of slapping on “Pave the Planet” or “No Fat Chicks,” ...

Carson Tahoe Health Foundation’s 6th annual HopeFest, a free outdoor concert whose proceeds benefit local cancer patients, will be headlined by The Waybacks. Founded in 1999 by singer, songwriter and ...

The Waybacks have toured with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and played a set with former New Grass Revival vocalist John Cowan at Merlefest where they recreated the entire Led Zeppelin II album, two ...