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Drink & Ride: The DeWayn Brothers are coming to your town

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Like most bands that you might stumble upon at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, The DeWayn Brothers pen twangy tunes about hearty country livin’ (the non-Cracker Barrel variety). They embrace the culture of whiskey, prison, bacon, and more whiskey while avoiding said sins jes’ enuff to stay out on the road 200-plus dates a year. The stringy quintet recently ditched its alter-ego rock band Loco Macheen to put 110% effort into the Bros—an evolution that’s well documented on the group’s third LP “Farmer.” Lead singer Jamie Briggeman hogties listeners with her pin-up caterwaul while Garrett Briggeman and Eric Nelson go all Flatt & Scruggs with banjer and geetar. The latter two drove up from their home base in Emporia to shoot the poop and give their latest compact disc a whirliwoo.

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