A group of musicians based around the songs of Osei Essed and longtime collaborator Cicero Jones, the Woes’ sound is a recombination of many styles of early American vernacular music including New Orleans jazz, blues, country and gospel. The NYC-based band will play at Broadway Joe’s on Wednesday (Oct. 24), for “Cross the Line,” a special genre-blending Baby Steps production that reaches across the usual heaping plate of hip-hop to serve up the Woes’ experimental blues/folk on the same stage with the trombone-powered jams of Ramforinkus, Smells Like Laundry (featuring Shuteyes and Definition) and vocal emcee Ray Skilla. The show gets started at 10pm and will be hosted by Stebs with special guest Eric Walker (a.k.a. PUSH’s ABM).