Jackson Hole has a brand new band.
Station 54 â Justin Smith, Shane Wolf, John Gallagher and Steve Place â make their debut June 9 at Melvin Brewing, with dates at the Wort Hotelâs Silver Dollar Showroom and the Knotty Pine in Victor, Idaho, in the weeks to come.
A chill blend of funk, rock and folk, Station 54 plays stripped-down, contemporary covers of tunes by such disparate songwriters and bands as The Talking Heads and Jack Johnson, Leon Bridges and Gordon Lightfoot, Steve Miller and The Band, to name but a few.
Singer-guitarist Smith is a well-established force in the Teton music scene, currently ripping up the Silver Dollar every Tuesday with bluegrass unit One Ton Pig and working by day as the talent buyer for the Wort and the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Wolf is a Berklee School of Music-trained multi-instrumentalist who in Station 54 plays guitar and sings, seemingly able to turn on his harmonizing skills at will. The much-lauded Gallagher is the founding bassist of Casey Kristoffersonâs rock and blues combo Lonesome Gold, while Plock was a go-to drummer on the Chicago scene, including for the popular five-piece Santah, before relocating to Jackson Hole last winter.