A Nice Bottom Dwellers Paragraph on The 9513

CM Wilcox for The 9513 on the Bottom Dwellers opening set for Billy Joe Shaver at the Palms Playhouse in Winters on June 16:

With Shaver running late, The Bottom Dwellers stretched their planned 30 minute opening set to nearly an hour, mixing originals like “I Think I Need a Drink” and “Paso Robles” with covers of “I Never Go Around Mirrors” and “Honky Tonk Blues.” Their rendition of “Little Sadie” was a particular treat, the only song on which the band’s two singers (Ivan Sohrakoff and Adam Hancock) traded vocals. While smiling Sohrakoff strummed acoustic and barrel-voiced Hancock tore off electric licks throughout, upright bassist Mark Eagleton held down a beat thick enough to compensate for the absence of the band’s drummer. The local band apparently gets a fair number of opening gigs for touring acts that pass through the area, and it’s a spot they fill admirably.