David Lindley, Ry Cooder, Debashish Bhattacharya, Stve Earle, Richard Thompson, Tinarawen,
Clarence White, David Grisman, Muleskinner, Jim Miller, Washboard Sam, Lee Marvin, Townes Van Zandt,
Gene Wilder, Split Lip Rayfield, Ravi Shankar, VM Bhatt, Ali Farka Toure, The Clash,
Joe Strummer, Mescaleros, Fred Eaglesmith, Greg Brown, Johnny Cash..............
-The Brass Kings Live - Muleskinner Blues - The Rox - 5/14/08
-The Brass Kings Live - Killing Time - The Rox - 5/14/08
A Huge Bird told me that (your sound alternative) KVSC-St.Cloud 88.1fm's Featured Artist Spotlight will be shining on !The Brass Kings! on May the 9th from 11-12am, now that's cooool grama jamma, you can stream thAT stuff @ www.kvsc.org!
We'll be featuring a different 2009 festival band each day right up through the July events. Today is THE BRASS KINGS
Local boys The Brass Kings are Steve Kaul (guitar/vox), Mikkel Beckmen (washboard/percussion) who is also the washboard player for Minneapolis legend, Charlie Parr and Brad Ptacek (washtub bass). They've taken on the ambitous task of marrying the blues with the unfamiliar yet tantalizing sounds of the middle east. Does it work? I'll quote David de Young of howwastheshow.com, "Live, the music sounds even more unconventional, almost ambient at times, reminiscent of how the Doors might have sounded if they’d been formed in the ancient East and if Robby Krieger had played sitar, as Kaul’s guitar sometimes takes on that tonality in the mix." Perhaps Kaul summed it up best when, from stage, he joked; "We play country music. We’re just not sure which country.”
great to hear you guys again..much love for what you are bringing to our town..I will be at Ginkos April 9th with Greg Klyma and David Stoddard in the round please come down and tell some friends it would be great to see you.
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