Experienced bassist/rhythm guitarist/vocalist looking for a band

Hillsborough NC

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Hello intrepid Craigslist explorers of the Triangle. I'm a former professional musician, now in my mid 30s and moved on to the 9-5 life, looking for a new band to join or start. I love a really wide range of music so am open to many different things. From my experience, the personal connections within a band are what make it really enjoyable and what make the music really work, so I'm hoping to find people I connect with and ones who appreciate the same elements of music that I do - groove, improvisation, space, subtlety, and listening well, hanging back, and playing off of each other. My main instrument is electric bass, but I'm also a capable vocalist, rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and live sound engineer. In my 20s, I spent about 7 years as a full-time musician in Richmond and Asheville, gigging up to 260 nights per year. I mostly played in country and bluegrass bands, plus a little time in a private event classic rock band and various other projects. Now, I'd love to be involved in something that focuses either on fairly obscure covers or original music, along the lines of any of the following: Groove-oriented psych-rock - something in the vein of Khruangbin, Meddle-era Floyd, etc. 40s-70s country, from Bob Wills and Webb Pierce to Willie and Waylon A Grateful Dead band, ideally one staying away from covering Casey Jones and UJB, focusing more on the good live tunes Instrumental music along the lines of Tin Hat Trio, The Bad Plus, Gabor Szabo, etc. A newgrass-influenced Americana band, covering Aereo-Plain era Hartford, Sam Bush, Tony Rice, Guy Clark, etc. JJ Cale/Leon Russell fairly mellow 70s rock, preferably with a good piano player Afrobeat, in all its iterations from Fela Kuti on down P-Funk, especially in the direction of some of their mellower and weirded tunes I'm also open to a host of other genres/ideas that I haven't listed here, so if you have something interesting going or want to start something new and think we'd mesh well, please reach out. And ideally, all of this would be happening in Hillsborough, Durham, Chapel Hill, etc., not Raleigh or further east or south. But if we really connect and share a vision, I'm willing to drive further. In the long run, I think I'd like to practice once or twice a week and gig once or twice a month, but that too is flexible. The main thing is just enjoying playing music together. Cheers!