Webb Wilder's Music Is Greasy, Danceable And Irresistible
January 02, 1998|By Dan Kening, Tribune Staff Writer.  Some
bands just play rock 'n' roll. Webb Wilder and his band the
Nashvegans flat out are rock 'n' roll.  Over 12 years and five
albums that synthesize rockabilly, Southern-fried blues, surf,
country, mid-'60s British and vintage American rock 'n' roll
music into one big greasy, danceable and irresistible whole,
Wilder and his boys, who play Friday and Saturday at
FitzGerald's in Berwyn, guarantee a good time.  Adding to the
music is the larger-than-life persona of Wilder himself. A
mysterious, Western-clad, horn-rimmed character with a booming
baritone and a between-songs patter reminiscent of a
fundamentalist preacher, the 43-year-old Nashville resident adds
some well-placed humor between the beefy guitar riffs. Take this
self-description: "Webb Wilder is the last of the full-grown
men, the last of the boarding-house people, a man who was never
a child and will never have children, a guy who know