WoodenHead 50 Year Anniversary with Jimmy Robinson and Special Guests

Woodenhead was the first jazz fusion band in New Orleans, and have literally played with everyone.(Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Dixie Dregs, Allen Holdsworth, The Steve Morse Band, Chick Corea's Elektrik Band, Bill Bruford & Patrick Moraz, Hugh Masekela, The Neville Brothers,Spyro Gyra and others.)

Here is 50 years of audience and critics comments. Don't Miss this SHOW! Special guests will be appearing - but we can't announce them!

Woodenhead has emerged as probably the most important and certainly the most fascinating musical unit New Orleans has seen in years...adamantly original, almost spiritual.." Eddie Allman, BATON ROUGE MORNING ADVOCATE"

In the immortal words of Frank Zappa, Woodenhead is a band with no commercial potential—and damn proud of it…Offbeat Magazine, New Orleans

"A great band. Really great feeling" JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, 1985"

They've been around forever. They're not really happening" Editor of defunct New Orleans music magazine at meeting for defunct music conference. 1986

"Woodenhead is not for the faint-hearted, musically or in spirit...they play a hard-driving, challenging music that will literally rock you out of the comfortable cradle of Jazz, R&B and rock and roll into which life in New Orleans has lulled you." Rock Adam GAMBIT"

Robinson is a killer guitarist, capable of removing the heads of most head banging metal freaks. He is also 'tasty' in the old-fashioned sense, rarely letting speed overtake the essentials." Mark Bingham, WAVELENGTH MAGAZINE

At the New Orleans jazz festival, Woodenhead gets a standing ovation for teaching traditional jazz fans just how far imagination and electricity can push the form" ESQUIRE MAGAZINE"

"An innovative band of extraordinary instrumentalists"...TRIANGLE LIVE, Winston-Salem, N.C.

"A band dedicated to creating music of the highest integrity, and not compromising during their three decades of performances and recordings." MJ Brady PROGNOSIS

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