About
The Waynesboro troubadour.
Alex Arbaugh is a singer and guitarist from Waynesboro, Virginia — Southern-rock roots and Americana, at the foot of the Blue Ridge.
Out on his own, Alex is the troubadour: acoustic guitar, a voice built for a room, and a set that slides from the covers everybody knows into originals you'll want to look up after. It's the sound that fills a winery patio at golden hour or a brewery taproom on a Friday — easy to lean into, hard to leave. Venues bill him plainly as the "Waynesboro troubadour," and that's about right.
Plug in and it gets louder. Alex co-fronts Sun Dried Opossum, the guitar-driven rock-'n'-roll band Apple Music files somewhere near Houndmouth and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. By the band's own account they've been at it since 1992, with three albums and — in their words — "over 1,000 live shows under their belt." A 2006 profile once called them "a cross between southern rock and Phish." They still stretch a song out; they still don't put anyone to sleep.
We stretch 'em out a bit, but we don't want to put anyone to sleep.
— Steve Sutton, Sun Dried Opossum (Frederick News-Post)
Sun Dried Opossum
Per the band's own site, the lineup is:
Vocals · Guitar
Alex Arbaugh
The frontman — and the troubadour you'll catch solo the rest of the week.
Vocals · Guitar
Steve Sutton
Co-front and second guitar — the other half of the band's two-guitar rock-'n'-roll.
Bass
Eric Clinedinst
Low end and the pocket the whole thing sits in.
Drums
Torrey Patterson
The engine room — keeping a thousand-show band honest.
Book the troubadour or the whole band
Solo, duo, or full band — your call.