Rick Overwater - vocals/acoustic & electric guitar/lap steel/resonator. Juanita Brandt- vocals/mandolin/electric guitar. Michael Platt - bass/vocals/electric guitar. Lorne Petersen - drums.
Influences
Johnny Cash, Slim Cessna, Tim O'Brien, Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Tom T. Hall, Roger Miller, Doc Watson, The Cramps, Tony Rice, Corb Lund, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Waylon Jennings, Friends of Dean Martinez, Calexico, Hank Williams I & III, The Sadies, Junior Brown......
You could probably refer to us as an "alt. country band" but it's anyone's guess what we really are. We write lots of stuff that borrows from bluegrass, old-style honky tonk, a wee bit of drinker-friendly gospel (no need to go to church on Sunday, we'll bring salvation to the bar for ya on Saturday night) and when we dig out the cover tunes they are usually old-timey bluegrass and old/outlaw country. If yer lookin' for glossy new-country stuff, keep right on movin', stranger.
Petersen and Overwater also play in a country-punk-metal band called Black Dirt of the West. Juanita has a solo record out, Platt is also in The Ruminants.
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Warm regards
Christian
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oh i just wrote something and erased it by accident. dang. i don't think i can be clever twice... something about how if yer going to make records of goodies, i'm a-gonna play em is all. gracias, mes amis.
fellas. the feature. she is on tomorrow night's show, 11.30pm on thursday the 8th. Anyone who wants to listen in to some of the songs from the new record and a bit about the band can tune in at 93.7fm here in Calgary, or anyone anywhere else can at ckua.com as well. thanks for sending the goodies along! c'est bon, c'est bon! luka and la petite emission late night