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CEG Presents
The Mountain Grass Unit w/ special guests Eugene Tyler Band
Sat, 14 Oct, 8:00 PM EDT
Doors open
7:00 AM EDT
Hill Country Live
30 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
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Description
The Mountain Grass Unit
The Mountain Grass Unit consists of three Birmingham pickers, Drury Anderson (mandolin and vocals), Luke Black (acoustic guitar and banjo), and Sam Wilson (upright bass). The Mountain Grass Unit has played music festivals, private functions and multiple music venues, playing bluegrass tunes and adding a bluegrass touch to country, jazz, funk, rock, and even metal. With the addition of Luke Black and Sam Wilson on harmonies, The Mountain Grass Unit has established the firm foundation to take on not only the vocal harmonies of traditional bluegrass tunes, but also the freedom to adapt songs from various genres to an all-acoustic format. Aside from their original songs, all three are equally comfortable restyling a Tony Rice number, a classic Grateful Dead tune, or covering contemporary acoustic masters like Billy Strings. The youthful exuberance and energy they bring to the stage is always remarkable. Their competency at what they do was best described by Birmingham music promoter Steve Masterson when the boys performed at his Acoustic Café festival: "They don't just play good for their age, they play good. Period." Sam, Luke, and Drury are excited to share with their audiences this new and exciting musical chapter.
Eugene Tyler Band
Eugene Tyler Band are just three mama’s boys with anxiety problems trying to find catharsis in high-energy, irreverent songs. Eugene Gardner (vocals/guitar/mandolin), Daniel Tyler (guitar/banjo), and Marc Jaffee (upright bass/vocals) all grew up within a couple of miles of each other in downstate New York, and since 2015 they’ve been on the road, performing at landmark clubs like Sony Hall and the Mercury Lounge and bluegrass festivals like Podunk Bluegrass and Thomas Point Beach. 2022 saw the band selling out shows across the northeast and opening up for national acts like the Kitchen Dwellers.
Their latest album, “Thanks Cats”, was released in 2021. “It’s the most honest record we’ve ever made,” says singer/songwriter Eugene Gardner. “Most of our time is spent on the road, drinking in the sun and making music with friends, some new and some we’ve known forever. We’ve made a lot of memories at those shows and hopefully these songs make people feel like they’re right there with us.”
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Bluegrass
The Mountain Grass Unit
The Mountain Grass Unit
Bluegrass

Alternative Rock
Eugene Tyler Band
Eugene Tyler Band
Alternative Rock
Indie-bluegrass trio Eugene Tyler Band is, at their core, a road band, who've spent years cutting their teeth on the bluegrass festival circuit and clubs across the northeast. Their newest record, Low It Goes, captures the free-wheeling intensity of those live shows and showcases the cathartic, irreverent songwriting that has won them fans all over the country. As songwriter Eugene Gardner says, “You learn a lot about yourself as a band when you’re playing 3 hours a night, and it’s forced us to step up our game in a way that I’m really proud of.” Sharing stages with bands like Billy Strings, the Kitchen Dwellers, and A.J. Lee, ETB has carved out a unique voice in the bluegrass scene, with cutting, often humorous songs, and a fast & loose approach that calls back to influences like the Clash and Drive-By Truckers.
Producing the album themselves, the band made a point to take the varied instrumentation of their live shows into the studio. “Writing on different instruments lets us explore different emotional ranges that we might not otherwise get to if we had to rely on the same lineup all the time.” That emotional range comes through on songs like ‘Golden Years’ and ‘Sit Down’, soaring to a wall of acoustic sound, the band barreling forward with abandon. The title track, ‘Low it Goes’, sees the band at their most pleading, telling a story of people who are lonely around their families, lonely around their friends, lonely with their lovers, and lonely out in the world. The album has its fair share of lighter moments, from the country-sounding ‘Cheap Beer’ to a fired-up take on Tom Petty’s ‘ Apartment Song’, balancing out the acerbic attack that permeates the rest of the album.
Eugene Gardner (vocals/guitar/mandolin/tenor guitar), Danny Tyler (banjo/guitar) and Marc Jaffee (upright bass/vocals) all grew up within a few miles of each other in New York’s Hudson Valley, where they are currently based.