Reese’s had so much success with their chocolate and peanut butter experiment that Drew Emmitt and Bill Nershi decided to try the same thing with salmon and cheese. Emmitt’s Leftover Salmon and Nershi’s String Cheese Incident have been crossing paths on the Newgrass/Jamgrass circuit for a good number of years, and somewhere along the line the bandleaders’ friendship and mutual respect turned into the idea to work together. Thus was born the cleverly dubbed Emmitt-Nershi Band.
Given the longstanding road-doggery of all involved, it’s the safest bet on the planet that the Emmitt-Nershi Band will light up these songs onstage with the force of a gas-fueled bonfire.
They play Play By Play Saturday. Get show details and Sound Advice here.
This article appears in Apr 7-13, 2010.