The Winchesters make regular passage of the bridge between toe-tapping country jams (like those of The Lone Bellow) and heart-filled introspective poetry (inspired by the likes of Tom Waits and Bob Dylan). The group started playing for fun in a little apartment on Chicago’s Winchester Avenue in the summer of 2014, and haven’t been able to give it up since. A tight-knit bunch from the beginning, their closeness shows in their meticulously blended harmonies — the Winchesters bring that same sense of living-room-intimacy to every crowd. In their spare time, The Winchesters are developing a folk musical based on Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline.