Ward Hayden and the Outliers with Greg Loftus

Saturday, August 9, 2025

7pm-10pm

As any fan of this prolific Massachusetts-born band knows, whether you’re a newcomer or whether you first heard Hayden when he first arrived on the Boston scene as the charismatic leader of the multi-Boston Music Award-winning outfit Girls Guns & Glory, the music on “Little by Little” is outfitted in the inimitable Outliers’ style. That is to say, with a marvelously effective, updated dose of Country & Western flavor; tasty instrumental flourishes thanks to Tyler Marshall’s and Sam Crawford’s restrained-yet-ripping guitar licks (the latter also employs lap steel guitar). And a supple rhythm section supplied by bass player-multi-instrumentalist Greg Hall (who co-produced the album with Hayden) and drummer-percussionist Patrick Brown, plus a select handful of the Outliers musical collaborators who lent their talents to this recording. All told, the musicianship here is so comfortably tight you could bounce a jukebox quarter off of it – that is, if jukeboxes still took quarters.