It can be a little too easy in these boom days of Austin to forget that this town’s musical history is far from being all indie. There’s certainly a lot of good rock coming out of this burg, but Austin’s just as much a city that owes its status as the live music capital to more traditionally Southern sounds like country, or in the exceptional Wood & Wire‘s case, bluegrass. Every member of this four piece act consisting of guitar, upright bass, banjo and mandolin is a virtuoso, something quite obvious anytime one runs off on a riff, and yet they still pull something pretty impressive even for experts. That’s the difficult feat of making a group of highly skilled individual artists sound better together, and it’s just what you get with each Wood & Wire piece. Each track by this band is certainly carefully crafted, but it also retains that irreplaceable heart and authentic energy of true bluegrass, the lack of which damages many traditional music bands with this level of technical skill. And the singing is spot-the-hell-on too. Check out what we mean with the video for track "Greener Grass" off Wood & Wire’s upcoming album The Coast, which is set to be available on February 3, and get into some Austin roots music for a bit.