Waydown Wailers are an American blues, Roots Rock, Outlaw Country Rock, Swamp Rock, Blues Rock original band composed of brothers Dave and Christian Parker, Michael (Scruffy) Scriminger, Joey Thomas, and Connor Pelkey. Their album, Backland Blues (2018), was well received [1] and topped out at #5 on the Blues Rock Chart.[2] The musical group has toured extensively in the Northeastern US and has been the opening act for Lady Antebellum,[3] The Charlie Daniels Band, ZZ Top and Jerrod Niemann,[4] among others.