9:00pm • $10 • Tickets on Eventbrite and at the door if available
Alan Veatch on vocals
Bob Graver on bass
Craig Stang on drums
Dennis Crolley on guitar
Dean Breeden on lead guitar
Listen to Alan Veatch on WOWD Forbidden Alliance with Robbie White
After taking a hiatus Alan Veatch and a select group of former Reluctant Playboys have reunited in support of their new V-Twin Records release "How Can 47 Fans Be Wrong".
Yes, Yes. They may seem more like the Reluctant “to play" Boys after all of this time...but...they are well rested and raring to go. Dating back to the 1990's The Reluctant Playboys were just one of many bands trying to make a name for themselves; playing the small circuit of live music venues that existed in the world's most powerful city; Washington, DC. A city so culturally diverse that it's no small challenge to find an audience for a band playing original country influenced rock and roll music.
Somehow, The Reluctant Playboys prevailed. Cutting their teeth; while playing to filled venues like the legendary 9:30 Club, the Twist & Shout (from the Mary Chapin Carpenter hit song) and even the Iota…while sharing the bill with such renowned artists as Festus, MO's The Bottle Rockets , Austin, TX's Asleep at the Wheel and Chuck Berry.
On one memorable night Alan's band played the Twist and Shout to a crowd so large, that when Bob Dylan stopped by, he literally had to stand on his chair just so he could see the band do there thing.
The Reluctant Playboys had become so popular that when the legendary Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen came to Baltimore... Commander Cody opened the show for The Reluctant Playboys.
Alan and his band are no strangers to large venues and out of town gigs; having played venues as large as the Warner Theatre and George Mason University and traveling as far away as New York NY, Nashville TN and Austin TX for showcase performances. But that was then and this is now. The Reluctant Playboys find themselves in the thick of the Americana Music movement with a brand new record filled with songs that will surely leave you feeling like you're listening to AM radio circa 1964.
The album's title is "How Can 47 Fans Be Wrong" ?...Good question...To be perfectly honest; we don't think they are wrong...and We're pretty sure you'll be number 48.