The Waybacks August 3, 2007

The Waybacks' brand of "acoustic mayhem," mixing bluegrass, bebop, hot-club jazz, Celtic, country and western, has helped launch the group into the national spotlight. Emerging from a lively community of friends and colleagues that's taken root in Nashville, they're six musicians poised at the point where youthful energy is balanced with maturity, inspiration with discipline and creativity with experience -- exactly the sweet spot where the greats of bluegrass have made their most lasting marks. Schooled in tradition yet able to stretch out in jam band style improvisation, endowed with razor-sharp vocals, fiery instrumental abilities and a rapidly growing repertoire of well-crafted original songs and tunes, the Infamous Stringdusters are as fresh an addition to the bluegrass -- make that, the music -- scene as has come along in many a year.