'Steve Earle meets Pink Floyd'

Make no mistake, Cody Beebe & The Crooks is no country pop band.

More like some gritty rock-tinged Americana. Or, as the band describes itself, "Steve Earle meets Pink Floyd."

"We call ourselves roots rock but we're a mix of country, blues, and rock," said namesake Cody Beebe, whose band will take the stage Saturday night as part of the KOHO 101.1 Mission Ridge Mountain Music Festival at Hampton Lodge. "For a lot of us, we would get really bored playing in a tight boundaries ..."

Formed in February 2009, the five-piece band calls Seattle home now. But most of the band members attended Washington State University and Beebe himself originally hails from Selah.

Last year, they embarked on a four-month tour that saw them play in 24 states. One of the highlights was hearing their single, "Waiting on You," playing on a Knoxville, Tenn., radio station as they were passing through.

"He (Cody Beebe) and The Crooks are not your typical Seattle band," Yakima's On Magazine commented last year. "They don't get cute. They aren't trying to prove how hip they are. They just want to jump on stage and rock a little bit."

The band will play at the Ridge's Hampton Lodge from 6:45 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Here's more on the Mountain Music Festival.