An eclectic acoustic band from the NC Triangle area, No Worries makes music steeped in all the Americana styles ... blues / rock / country / bluegrass … originals, old favorites, and covers of great songs you’ve maybe never heard yet. No Worries is also the feeling you’ll get. They’re fun, smooth, but seasoned — with a pinch of red pepper. Musicians from way back, together for several years now, their current musicmaking tools of choice are guitars, mandolin, bass, and harmonica. Plenty of sweet harmonies too. Downstream is the name of their latest album, released in 2020, featuring 12 original tunes. Their first album, Hitching Doc’s Highway, came out in July 2011. The title is a tribute to one of their musical heroes, North Carolina’s own Doc Watson. The players: Jim Amsden Growing up on a farm in Maine, Jim built amps from surplus military vacuum tubes and needed something to play through them, so he picked up the electric guitar. By 16 he was rocking & rolling local clubs … even his own high school prom. Once in North Carolina, he started absorbing the new acoustic music of bands like Nickel Creek and Strength in Numbers. Jim plays just about anything, but in No Worries he usually straps on a mandolin or guitar. Richard Bowdon As a teen Richard soaked up all the cross-currents of the golden age of popular music on AM radio, then branched out to less-trodden musical paths of Americana, including singer-songwriters, western swing, and anything Doc Watson played. In college he started writing his own songs ... by now he’s lost count of them. Until No Worries he always played solo. His roles in the band include vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, and of course, songwriting. Rob Surra Rob learned how to play guitar as a grade-schooler in Buffalo and picked up bass in high school. In his travels through Cincinnati, Chicago and finally North Carolina, he has played everything from 70’s punk to lounge jazz. As bass player for No Worries, he enjoys the rich range of roots Americana that that inspire the band’s sound.