It all started with a wanted ad 12 years ago. On a dark and stormy night, a guitar pickin' guy named Darrell, put a wanted ad in the WA Bluegrass letter. A banjo player from northern parts of Ballard answered, Mr. Greg Lawless. 3 weeks later, a mandolin player, Doug Chandler answered the ad, and so began the genesis of the Weavils.

Soon they added a bass player, Nancy Riccio. It was a year later that the band began to run into some troubled times. Darrel quit the band, it was rumored that personality conflicts, money, and drugs were the cause, but these rumors were never substantiated. Nancy quit six months later leaving the band bassless. The Weavils went through a lot of guitar players after that, still searching for the right band.

A few years later Pete Thorn joined the band as their main rhythm guitarist. Pete didn't take nothin' from no one, and soon started laying the law as far as rhythm goes and the band began to get its foundation.

Years of medical school had stifled Mike Karbowski's dreams of being famed bluegrass upright bass player, until that one fateful evening when Greg Lawless saw the upright bass in the corner of his house. Greg told Mike to look deep inside himself. Mike did and found that that bluegrass bass player dream was still there.

Dave Grout had done a lot of work with Greg, shady real-estate deals, junk bonds, ocean side property in Arizona, etc. One evening Greg was over at Dave's house for a "sing-along". Greg was amazed to find that Dave had an amazing voice and understood the dark art of harmony. Greg begged Dave to come teach the Weavil's about harmony, and Dave's been trying ever since.

Greg was walking down his neighborhood one day, when he heard this mournful sound. On the steps of their new home sat Michael Hudgens playing the blues and singing about selling his soul to the devil. Through tears of sadness and with a great weight on his shoulders, Greg asked Michael if he'd come play bluegrass music with the Weavils. Michael's response was, "If it's got blues in it, I'll play it."

Peggy joined the weavils around the same time that Pete did. She played with the Weavils for a while. Eventually she left the band. Looking for a replacement fiddle player they eventually they found Mark Steudel, a classically trained violinist turned fiddler. While an alright player, they kept having to remind him that he wasn't going to get any sheet music.