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The Incredible Sandwich performs Saturday at Bayou Bill’s.
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VALDOSTA — The Incredible Sandwich makes a delivery Saturday night in Valdosta.
The Athens-based jam band is scheduled to play Bayou Bill’s. But don’t call the Sandwich a jam band.
As lead guitarist/singer Matt McKinney, a Cordele native, said in a Red & Black article, the term “jam band” has too many negative connotations.
“Lately the jam scene is too much about the drugs,” he said in the April article. “When I was going to see (Widespread) Panic, people were going to see Panic, not just to do drugs. These fans, they have a sticker of a jam band on their car but then can only listen to them on some drug. ... The Incredible Sandwich is completely drug-free. We support a 100 percent drug-free environment.”
Still, that said, most folks will place the Sandwich, as fans call the group, in the jam band category. Listening to the five tracks on the self-titled The Incredible Sandwich CD, one can’t help but think jam band.
But McKinney and promoters say it’s not that simple. The band plays “progressive rock.” Unlike other jam bands, the Sandwich is more concerned about the core structure of a song.
They actually write a song, compose it, and then let some improv jam stuff happen up and down the melody. But listen closely. Sandwich has the spontaneity of a jam band, but it never loses the thread of the song.
In addition to McKinney, the four-piece Sandwich includes Kevin Juneau, bass guitar; Damian Kapcala, keyboards; Rackley Davis, drums, vocals.
They are all dedicated to the song, and are well-versed in what makes one another tick when playing live.
“The fact that we share the same influences helps a lot with how we feed off each other,” Davis says through the CD’s label, Mule Train Records. “I think a lot of that goes into improvisation. We have a fine-tuned ear for each other’s instrument and style.”
• The Incredible Sandwich plays Saturday night, Bayou Bill’s, 1811 Jerry Jones Drive. Cover charge at the door.
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