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Wooks, The

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THE WOOKS

  • From Lexington, Kentucky.
  • The Urban Dictionary defines a wook as: “a hippie without any ambition, motivation, or drive other than drugs and image. They’re generally in their twenties, college students (or dropouts) at small-town liberal colleges (such as Appalachian State University) and dependent on an income other than their own.”
  • Formed in 2014 by C.J. Cain (guitar), Galen Green (mandolin), Arthur Hancock (banjo), Roddy Puckett (bass) and Jesse Wells (fiddle).
  • Hancock’s father (also Arthur Hancock) is a bluegrass songwriter and recording artist, as well as the owner of a Kentucky Derby winning race horse, Sunday Silence.
  • 2016, won the band competition at RockyGrass and released their first self-titled album (no label).
  • 2016, released “Little Circles” album (Gnar Vector).
  • 2017, Wells and Green left the band; multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Aaron Bibelhauser joined.
  • 2018, released “Me and the Stars Tonight” album (Gnar Vector).
  • 2018 lineup: Cain (guitar), Harry Clark (mandolin), Hancock (guitar), Roddy Puckett (bass).
  • 2018, released “Glory Bound” album (Gnar Vector).
  • 2019, Hancock and Puckett formed a new band with Aaron Bibelhauser and Kati Penn called Wolfpen Branch.
  • 2021, released Flyin’ High album (Gnar Vector). New lineup: Cain (guitar), Clark (mandolin), George Guthrie (banjo) and Allen Cook (Dobro™).