{"id":890,"date":"2011-09-19T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=890"},"modified":"2011-09-17T20:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T00:20:37","slug":"wayne-hancock-at-the-beachland-tavern-cleveland-oh-9-14-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/09\/19\/wayne-hancock-at-the-beachland-tavern-cleveland-oh-9-14-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Hancock at the Beachland Tavern, Cleveland, OH, 9.14.11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“My name is Wayne Hancock. I’m opening for myself.”<\/p>\n

Sometimes it feels like the musicians who work the hardest and contribute the most time to honing their craft to be the best it can be are the least known. Thus how Wayne Hancock, who has been recording for 16 years and writing and playing music for even longer, comes to play a three-hour set to a half-full bar in Cleveland on a Wednesday night. Granted, it was a respectable crowd for a mid-week night in the CLE, but to fairly equate Hancock’s energy and caliber as a music maker, he should have been playing to a capacity crowd in the Ballroom. <\/p>\n

While the man also known as “The Train” and his boys – Jerry Cochran on Fender Telecaster, Wyatt Maxwell on a Gretsch Falcon and Joe Deuce on doghouse bass – lurched a little as they launched their set, it only took a few songs before the wheels were properly greased, and they were ready to fly.<\/p>\n

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