(((folkYEAH!))) Presents - Goodnight, Texas
Date and Time
Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Location
Moe's Alley
1535 Commercial Way
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
Event Details
(((folkYEAH!))) presents folk rock band Goodnight, Texas!Wednesday, September 24, 2025Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm$20 in advance / $25 day of the show21+*All sales are final - No refunds*Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com====GOODNIGHT, TEXASConventional wisdom says the two frontmen of a band shouldnt live on opposite sides of the United States, but thats never seemed to deter Avi Vinocur and Patrick Dyer Wolf.Goodnight, Texas is a tough-to-define storytelling folk rock band whose strength lies in unexpected sweet spots. Drawing their name from Pat and Avis onetime geographic midpoint (the real town of Goodnight in the State of Texas, a tiny hamlet east of Amarillo directly betwixt San Francisco, CA and Chapel Hill, NC), the five-piece band also exists at the center of its songwriters contrasting styles via a 1913 Gibson A mandolin and a 2015 Danelectro Baritone Guitar, at the crossroads of folk and blues and rock n roll, in a place where dry wit and dark truths meet hope and utmost sincerity.The bands new single, RUNAWAYS, trades the thought-provoking, earthy blend of folk-rock for which theyre known, for a beast of a hard-rock song. Indelible riffs, thundering rhythms and a positively scorching lead guitar, from none other than metal giant and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, prove that this band is not afraid to push their own musical boundaries. This is the hardest weve ever rocked on a recording, Patrick explains of the new single. Thats thanks in no small part to an actual and absolute vintage Kirk Hammett wah solo on his legendary Greeny guitar, about which I am self-pinching daily. The main riff of the song had been lurking in my drafts like a caged animal since our last album, and at some point in the past year we decided it was time to set it free.Were not abandoning our banjos and mandolins, and in fact, theres banjo in there; if you squint you can hear it. For now though, were slinging double electrics, Scott traded brushes for drumsticks, Chris is grinding the low strings, and we have a metal legend coming in at the 2:25 mark.2022 brought the bands highly anticipated fourth album How Long Will It Take Them To Die, a dark yet lighthearted shoebox of knick-knacks and newspaper clippings - perhaps reflecting on either two years of global isolation, or the whole of American history. Where past Goodnight, Texas albums have traveled cross-country and throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, this new offering falls on a z-axis somewhere between the aurora borealis and six feet underground.
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