Our last jam of the summer is at the 2022 Eastside Neighborhood Garden Fall Harvest!
Our last jam of the summer is at the 2022 Eastside Neighborhood Garden Fall Harvest!
PREVIOUSLY known as Wooden Ships
Jam Band from the 70's
We have been playing for decades, well, at least since the early 70's together and have been in many different bands. The core guys are mostly together still, and still playing.
We played at 2022 Harvest Festival at the Eastside Neighborhood Garden in Elgin most recently. Great jam. Pics and some vid to come soon.
We love playing outdoor gigs and parties. Normally just a few jams a year.
"Give us a buzz!"
At one of our recent rehearsals, our leader JR thought, "Welp, it's time for a band name change". Our little 5 YO girl had put up a sign in the rehearsal space, "LIZZIE TOWN". JR asked her if it would be OK if we renamed our band "Lizzie Town". She and her brother campaigned during our rehearsal, and she marched around with her sign and said "Vote for me!" and her brother made a little sign and marched around with it saying f"Vote for me!" Needless to say, Lizzie town won and after 40 years, we are freshly reminted as The Lizzie Town Band.
We all started jamming together and separately in 1972, and slowly refined our tastes. We are the Woodstock generation, dead heads, and more. We sometimes have been known to do Wooden Ships by CSNY for 15 minutes, but that's generally when we are jamming in our own place.
Truck Drivin Man, Tulsa Time, Willin', Steamroller Blues, Tangled Up
We all started jamming together and separately in 1972, and slowly refined our tastes. We are the Woodstock generation, dead heads, and more. We sometimes have been known to do Wooden Ships by CSNY for 15 minutes, but that's generally when we are jamming in our own place.
Truck Drivin Man, Tulsa Time, Willin', Steamroller Blues, Tangled Up In Blue, Mama Tried, Long Time Gone, Moondance, Nadine, etc
The Band
Crosby, .Stills, Nash, and Young
Grateful Dead
John Prine
Muddy Waters
Allman Brothers
Eric Clapton
The Beatles
Jerry Jeff Walker
Paul Simon
Paul Butterfield
Lynrd Skynyrd
Waylon Jennings
The Stones
etc etc etc
Our music blends rock, acoustic melodies, and electronic to create a unique sound. Our lyrics are personal and inspired by our own lives. We usually jam at our own places, once in a while invited to get in front of a live audience.
We've jammed quite a bit, and had a following years ago. Sign up for our newsletter below as we remain just friends, doing an occasional performance here and there if everything works out. We're a non-working but love to play group of guys and we value friendships more than the rigors of a working band kind of deal. So if you are patient with us, let us know if you have a need for some old hippies jamming Dylan, The Band, Waylon Jennings, James Taylor and many more and we will keep you updated once in a while, God willing!
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