Member Since: 8/20/2005
Band Website: cadillacstepbacks.com
Band Members: Trent Boutz plays his gold-plated Stelling banjo and sings the slow sad songs and Jason Hedrick slaps and plucks his big ol' German upright bass while nailing those tenor parts and Nathan Golub does the strum and twang on his Martin D-28 acoustic guitar as he sings 'em pretty and Allen Ray sings the baritone parts and plays the chop-chop and flat kills it on his Ratliff F-style mandolin.
Influences: The Cadillac Stepbacks love listening to Bill Monroe, Reno & Smiley, Tom Waits, The Bluegrass Album Band, The Country Gentlemen, Stephan Grappelli, The Stanley Bros, Hot Rize, Lucinda Williams, The Kentucky Colonels, JD Crowe & The New South, Ray Brown, The Del McCoury Band, Tom Petty, Merle Haggard, Gram Parsons, The Lonesome River Band, Buck Owens, Flatt & Scruggs, The Bluegrass Cardinals, John Hartford, Wilco, Tony Rice, Clarence White, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Martin, Miles Davis, Matthew Sweet, Steve Earle, Blue Highway, Hank Bowman, George Jones, Doc Boggs, Tony Rice, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Django Reinhart, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Son Volt, the Flaming Lips and many other fine musicians.
Sounds Like: The Bluegrass Music.
Record Label: Busted String Records
Type of Label: Major