Massy Ferguson will rock the central Lynwood stage at the Treehouse Café from 9:30 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Dec. 31 in a special 21-and-older-only New Year’s Eve concert event.
You know only good things can come from a band that named itself after a farm equipment company.
Their songs are steeped in the classic Americana of the Uncle Tupelo, the Jayhawks and the Backsliders. Rich with imagery of highways, truck stop coffee, whiskey, road weariness and bad motels, Massy Ferguson make roots music about the blue collar aspects of our nation.
Singer/bassist Ethan Anderson said the sound is Americana that leans more toward rock than country. Think Drive-By Truckers or some combination of Son Volt and The Hold Steady. Think Springsteen’s “Greetings From Asbury Park” or “Nebraska.” Those influences, 1970s Southern rock and good time classic rock bands like Thin Lizzy have also helped them land gigs at festivals and clubs in Australia, Iceland, Germany, England and Mexico.
They won the Seattle Weekly’s 2010 REVERB festival “Favorite Band” poll. And in 2013, they played the Watershed Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre.
The band likes playing bars, likes going on the road. The songs, filled with barflies, broken hearts and doomed late-night romance, would sound pretty good anywhere, though.
Tickets, $40 for general admission and $50 for reserved seats, are on sale at www.treehousebainbridge.com.
