The Auctioneers Expect 'Gangster Voodoo' And 'Bad Ass Pedal Steel' From Idols At Wanee Festival

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Led Zeppelin, Igor Stravinsky, Mississippi John Hurt, Jaco Pastorius, Dr. John, Dennis Wilson, Wayne Shorter. These are just a few of the myriad influences that inform The Auctioneers' blend of Southern boogie, vintage rock, blue-eyed soul and country. The band are as likely to expound on the virtues of Stravinsky's "compositional language" as they are Jimmy Page's "sloppy but oh so good" guitar solo on "Achilles Last Stand."

On April 16th, The Auctioneers will join some of their inspirations, both old and new, onstage at the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, FL, a lineup that also includes The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, The Black Keys, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and North Mississippi Allstars, among others.

When asked which bands they're most excited to play with at Wanee, piano player Ryan Alexander Gregg cites Dr. John, "one of my biggest influences as a piano player," while guitarist Erik Broberg calls John's "Walk on Guilded Splinters" "easily the most gangster voodoo song ever composed."

Gregg, Broberg and bassist Chris "The Monster" Kapica are all frothing to see Oteil and Kofi Burbridge with the Lee Boys because, as Broberg says, "Roosevelt from the Lee Boys is the most bad ass pedal steel player ever!"

Kapica says it would be a "cardinal sin" not to see George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, while singer E.B. Sollis is looking forward to seeing Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk once again, because the last time "my jaw hit the floor so mercilessly hard after their performance it still hurts."

The Auctioneers self-titled debut EP will be out March 30, check out first single "Young Man's Blues" here:
https://soundcloud.com/feinberg/sets/theauctioneers-youngmansblues