Costa Mesa natives Casey and the Tall Boys are the best of both musical worlds: timeless and fresh. The band’s acoustic instrumentation and sparse, tuneful songs recall classic folk and country, but they are too jazzy and playful to be pigeonholed. Each member of the band put in work in several local bands: drummer Joel Williams and bassist D.A. Humphry were in the Quarter After, Alejandro’s Awesome Surf Band and the Sweet Sweet Things. They also played with the Blank Tapes, through which they found singer/guitarist Casey Filbey. Rounding out the lineup is guitarist/banjoist Sean Weikel of Love Your Mother. Drawing on influences as eclectic as the Kinks, Lee Hazlewood and Tom Waits, the band make old tunes sound new and new ones... More >>>