Daniel Pretends Eagle: Vocals, Guitar, Banjo-- Carol Morgan-Eagle: Vocals-- Chipper Thompson: Vocals, Mandolin, Guitar, Bajo Sexto-- Paul Reid: Bass-- Mark Bennett: Drums--
Influences
Carter Family, Stanley Brothers, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, X, Joy Division, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, The Gun Club, most old Appalachian music, beautiful old cemeteries and ghost towns, absinthe and other 19th affectations, "Deadwood", Edgar Allen Poe, Sam Peckinpah, Doc Holliday, Ennio Morricone
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"the orphan children of a traditional string band and The Velvet Underground." moors magazine - The Netherlands
Press & Reviews:
"Right from the sublime opener, it is clear the group possesses something special...Pretty Polly is one of the most compelling folkrock songs we have heard so far this year. "...no one can deny this is one of the most exciting/enthusiastic folkrock cds of recent times".
Eric van Domberg Scipio - editor Heaven Magazine The Netherlands
"where adventure meets tradition......mouthwatering Americana..beautiful, beautiful"
www.moorsmagazine.nl The Netherlands
"one question applies...do you like it or not. In the case of "A Romance of Ghosts" the answer is a resounding YES! ....a very delicious mixture of beautiful melodies and arrangements...a pure, dark and violent tale.....in short: a high quality, mysterious and curious album." Real Roots Cafe - The Netherlands
"one of New Mexico's most exciting acts...Bone Orchard symbolizes the
romantic spirit of the west...and finds the hidden beauty amongst the sand and the stones."
The Santa Fe Reporter-Gabe Gomez
"rock and roll folk with a Celtic twist with fabulous ballads sure to draw you in, shedding light on the darker sides of life. Besides that, they're great fun!"
Wildwood Sounds House Concerts - Konnie and Stephen
"beautiful contrasts.....a must have"
www.altcountry.nl The Netherlands
....like the strange cousin of folk music that grew up on equal parts Joy Division and Hank Williams.....Marry that to the quiet strength and grandeur (the gravitas, if you will) of the compositions and you have songs to accompany the sun setting behind the Rockies as seen from the porch of a house abandoned before your grandfather was born. Lovely.
Jordn Block of www.sephiachord.com
"tight harmonies and musicians who are truly attuned to each other..will have you toe tapping and humming along"
New Mexico Magazine- Emily Drabanski
Hailed by "The Santa Fe Reporter" as "one of New Mexico's most exciting acts", Bone Orchard captures both the darkness and allure of the American Mythos. Their music is a journey down the route 66 of legend as it might have been had it started in rural Appalachia and detoured through the wild streets of Deadwood.
Drawing from traditional Appalachian influences, as well as 20th. century post-punk, Bone Orchard blends acoustic and electric guitars, banjo and mandolin to create a cinematic original sound of haunted beauty and purity, much like the wind swept mesas and wide blue skies of their hometown of Taos, New Mexico. Their songs are at turns rollicking and mournful, gentle and violent, exhibiting rich vocal harmonies that soothe, all the while spinning dark and desperate tales that make you shiver. Bone Orchard concocts a delicious musical brew you'll want to gulp down.... intoxicating and a little dangerous.
Daniel Pretends Eagle and Carol Morgan-Eagle are the heart and marrow of Bone Orchard creating and producing all their own music. Yes, Daniel Pretends Eagle is his real name given to him by his father of the same name who is a Lakota Sioux Indian of Standing Rock reservation and the Winnebago Reservation. Show business runs in the family as his Sioux great Uncle was a performer with the Wild Buffalo Bill Show at the turn of the century.
Daniel’s love of music was engendered at the tender age of three on a Mississippi riverboat. His mother worked as a cocktail waitress on a paddle wheeler that plied the shores of St. Louis, Missouri, where, in an effort to keep him out of trouble, the house band would arm Daniel with a pair of brushes and put him behind the drum set. Years later, Daniel found himself in LA where he studied with a reclusive master of the electric guitar high in the Hollywood Hills. It was here that he was first exposed to the wild and innovative roots music of artists like X, The Divine Horseman, Rank and File and The Gun Club. He fell in love with the genre and began forging his own uniquely American soundscape, a haunting alchemy of punk rock and Appalachian murder ballads—of Sam Shepard, Cormac McCarthy and Edgar Allen Poe forming the band "The Peckinpahs" (after Sam Peckinpah) and playing all the usual haunts of the Los Angeles music scene.
Carol also began her performing career at an early age. She was five when she began vocal lessons and studying Scottish Highland dancing in which she was soon competing seriously winning many trophies and medals. Her skill as a dancer and an inherent flair for the dramatic earning her appearances at the Scottish National Championships, the opening ceremonies of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, dancing in Brigadoon, King and I, as well as, too numerous to tell, many other stage appearances. Her family's enjoyment of old ghost towns as vacation spots and her love of singing and dancing led to Carol's recognition of a past life as a Nevada dance hall girl and contributed to her enthrallment of some of the more macabre aspects of the Old West. Carol was exposed to the wild underground music scene of Los Angeles when she attended a friends boyfriend's band rehearsal in a old hotel room of which band turned out to be "X". From there it was a fast and exciting slide down into the seamy world of rock and roll.
Daniel and Carol's talents merged when they met at a tender age in Los Angeles
and discovered a amazingly similar appreciation of the same music as well as a passion for club hopping from whence they spent many a pleasant hour in the fascinating underground music world of L.A.
Carol, Daniel & their dog Huckleberry (from Doc Holliday in the movie "Tombstone" not the cartoon) share a home in the Sangre de Cristo mountains above Taos, New Mexico.
Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Viktagraph Regina Spektor: 20 Years of Snow Nick Cave: (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Birdeatsbaby: Shiver Up the Spine Jason Webley & Sxip Shirey: Regurgitated Lullaby Waves Under Water: Nothing More 127: Doktor Peculiar Pretzelmen: Midnight Sophe Lux: Sophie Song Bad Dream Good Breakfast: Footsteps Voodoo Organist: If I Make It Skeletonbreath: The Combustible Man Jam: That's Entertainment Danny Price and the Loose Change: Those Good Ol' Death Metal Days Gogol Bordello: Start Wearing Purple This Bike is a Pipe Bomb: A Hundred Dollars Dropkick Murphys: Barroom Heroes Wisteriax: Doves Never Sleep Thunder in the Valley: Rooftops & Streets James Gang: Shut It Down Bone Orchard: Dancing with the Ghost of William Bonney HUMANWINE: 1st Amendment Hail Seizures: Song for the Ride Neko Case: Don't Forget Me ghostfire: Vaudevillian
Professor Gall: Mr Paragon Adrian H & the Wounds: She Won't Leave Me Alone (The Bug Song) Zera Marvel: Every Detail Bewitched: The Dark Midnight Serenaders: I Can't Dance, Got Ants in my Pants Sxip Shirey: The Organ Grinder Neko Case: Prison Girls Dean Cercone: Look at Your Face Fermata: Subrosa Voltaire: Beast of Pirate's Bay Buddy Nutt: Day Ten Paul Mercer: Ballet Mecanique Luminescent Orchestrii: Moldavian Serendipity Musik: Parallel Universe No 2 Ruby Throat: Dear Daniel Belle & Sebastian: Family Tree Lux Interna: Flowers Under Glass Kokusyoku Sumire: Higeki no Marionette Gogol Bordello: Start Wearing Purple Bone Orchard: Snake Oil Salesman
hi ya, from haggisland, cool sound yous have got, hope yous cand get over the big pond and play scotland sometime, loads of folk fests over here , yous would go down a storm :) bob
What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?: Hanging in a Tree Harry Partch: And on the Seventh Day, Petals Fell in Petaluma Veronique Chevalier: Kalkajaka Polka Vagabond Opera: Swelles & Belles Amber Spyglass: Harmonic Tide Garrafiera: O Marro Nao Tem Vez Bone Orchard: Missouri Raider Melora Creager: The Sky is Falling Alice Cooper: You and Me Bakelite 78: Katie Dear Unwoman: Envy Jill Tracy: Room 19 The Pogues: A Pair of Brown Eyes Peanut Albinos: The Most Insignificant Things Golden Robot Army: All I Want They Might Be Giants: We Want a Rock Farside: Return of the Fly Christian Williams: McCall's Luck Sad Bastard Book Club: The Pauper Choir of Mathias, AZ Thunder in the Valley: John Ray & Mary Brown Hellblinki Sextet: Beanie Weenies Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau: Early Chill 127: Charand Goft Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: No Room
Vermillion Lies: Miss Orleans Bone Orchard: Silver Dollar Peanut Albinos: Cartiheyna The Dad Horse Experience: Gates of Heaven Gogol Bordello: Think Locally, Fuck Globally Uncle Sinner: Old Rub Alcohol Blues Slim Cessna's Auto Club: Boom Magalina Hagalina Boom Tallboys: Cotton-Eyed Joe Luminescent Orchestrii: Milista Veronique Chevalier: Polka Haunt Us Camper Van Beethoven: Pictures of Matchstick Men Vagabond Opera: Ich Hob Dikh Tsu Ful Lib Louis Prima: Jump Jive an' Wail Christian Williams: Bower Sock Damn Palodine: Sadlands Parker & Lily: Candy's Last Day The Bad Things: Heartache Years Golden Robot Army: Fantasy Bakelite 78: Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen Sharon Crumine: February Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Revenge of the Rats Yma Sumac: Taki Rari Diamanda Galas: My Love Will Never Die Sad Bastard Book Club: Our Sweet Victory, All Sickly and Toothless Hollywood Studio Orchestra: The Pink Panther Theme Milling Gowns: Fist Wings Following
Jay Munly: The Denver Boot Tuba Meisters: Edelweiss Luminescent Orchestrii: How to Play Romanian Split Lip Rayfield: Hounds Uncle Sinner: Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow Ellinger Combo: At the Spring Waltz Painted Saints: Tinder Peanut Albinos: Eleanora Katzenjammer Kabarett: Sunlight Sanatorium Voltaire: Coin Operated Goi Christian Williams: Apple Tree Bone Orchard: Wayfarin' Stranger Ray Krenek & His Orchestra: Texas Schottische The Doors: Names of the Kingdom Leroy Rybak's Swinging Orchestra: El Rancho Grande Bakelite 78: Dry County Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Revenge of the Rats Danny Price and the Loose Change: Those Good Ol' Death Metal Days Vagabond Opera: Granada "Triplets of Belleville": Attila Marcel The Dad Horse Experience: Falling Melora Creager: Itinerant Airship Veronique Chevalier: Castle Leap
Come check out my art at some of the exhibitions listed below:
Solo Exhibit, Italy, April 2009 The Dirty Show, Detroit, MI, Feb 14, 2009 Eat It!, Eclectix Gallery,El Cerrito, CA, March 13th, 2009 The Love Show, Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR, Feb 2009
Many more exhibitions booked, check my profile to view more.
Lupus Nensen & the Congregation: St Francis Katzenjammer Kabarett: Romance Bakelite 78: The President Cannot Be Reached Thomas Nola et son Orchestre: Penelope & the Sandbar The Dad Horse Experience: Lord Must Fix My Soul Denver Gentlemen: Blue Parrot Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: White Rabbit The Kinks: Mr Pleasant Billy Bragg: A New England The Other Flesh: Waltzing Down the Road to Hell Blanche: So Long Cruel World Sixteen Horsepower: Flutter Black Heart Procession: Did You Wonder Bone Orchard: Snakeoil They Might Be Giants: Stand On Your Own Head Vagabond Opera: Swelles & Belles Choir Practice: I See Things Those Poor Bastards: Maypole Mayday Peanut Albinos: Cartihenya Christian Williams: Apple Tree Veronique Chevalier: Polka Haunt Us Cult with No Name: You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself Luminescent Orchestrii: Neptune's Daughter
Vermillion Lies: Miss Orleans The Doors: Spanish Caravan Vagabond Opera: Ravella Katzenjammer Kabarett: Sunlight Sanatorium What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?: The Gospel of Beauty Bone Orchard: Frontier, Frontier Baby Gramps & the Back Swamp Potioners: Bougainvillea Vine Joe Black: Scarecrow (and What He Found There) Nina Nastasia: On Teasing Thomas Nola et son Orchestre: Hello, Friends & Enemies The Dad Horse Experience: Reach Out Your Hand Peanut Albinos: Eleanora Firewater: Some Kind of Kindness Kim Vermillion: Organ Donor's March Bakelite 78: Ballad of the Parson's Boy Reverend Glasseye: God Help You Dumb Boy Christian Williams: Chaos Veronique Chevalier: Vampire Surprise Luminescent Orchestrii: Moldavian Leon Redbone: My Walking Stick Paul Mercer: Judgment Unwoman: Envy Voltaire: This Ship's Going Down Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Viktagraph
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