| Member Since | 4/27/2005 | | Band Website | www.myspace.com/thefloorbirds | | Band Members | 
1. K.C. Moan
2. Wild Mountain Thyme
3. Moonshiner
4. Washburn Blues
5. Rovin’ Gambler
6. James Alley Blues
7. Skyball Paint
8. The Mermaid Song
9 Worried Blues
10. Lady Margaret
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Buskin' on 4th Street SE Dinkytown (photo by alyssa bicking)
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MUSIC!!!
Ramblin Jack Elliott, Woody Guthrie, Monroe Brothers, Bascom Lamar Lunsford,Blind Willie Johnson, Charlie Patton, Koerner, Ray & Glover, Stanley Brothers, Louvin Brothers, Lemon Jefferson, Bob Wills, Mississippi Sheiks, Washington Phillips, Henry Thomas, Willie Mctell, Jack Torrey, Blind Boy Paxton, Tom Waits, Leadbelly, Burnett and Rutherford, Mainers Mountaineers, Fog Horn String Band, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Delmore Brothers, Blue Sky Boys, Eck Robertson, Roscoe Holcomb, Bob Dylan, Frank Stokes, Son House, Louie Lasky, Lil McClintock, Skip James, Bessie Jones, Mississippi 'Cleve' Reed, Gid Tanner, The Carter Family, Clyde Davenport, Kirk Sutphin, Buck Owens, Cedar Creek Sheik, Townes Van Vandt, Jimmie Rodgers, Kessinger Brothers, The Stripling Brothers, Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi John Hurt, Libba Cotton, Gary Davis, Emmett Miller, Ernest Tubb, Hobart Smith, Mike Seeger, Doc Boggs, Will Oldham, Fruit Bats, Iron & Wine, Damien Jurado, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah, Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright, Lonesome Dan, Jolie Holland, Small Faces, Luke Jordan, Dick Justice, Frank Hutchinson, Ernie Carpenter, Jimmy Smith, Groove Holmes, Jack McDuff, Billy Holloman, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Blind Blake, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Gillian Welch, Johnny Cash, Flying Burrito Brothers, Whiskytown, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, The Byrds, Donovan, Fats Waller, Fats Domino, Furry Lewis, Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Grayson and Whitter, Guy Clark, The Clash, Van Morrison, The Band, Erik Satie, The Beat, The Specials, Rocksteady and SKA, Slackers, Hepcat, Prince Buster, Lee Perry, Justin Hinds, Toots and the Maytals, Dave and Ancil Collins, Jackie Mittoo, Big Star, Georgia Sea Island Gospel, Mavis Staples, Sam Cooke, Mahalia Jackson, Balfa Brothers, Mark and Ann Savoy, Amedee Ardoin, DL. Menard, Doc Watson, The Velvet Underground, The Walkmen, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevans, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, ME!
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott and I
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..AUTHORS!!!
Rainer Maria Rilke, Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Cocteau, Sylvia Plath, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Bly, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Gertrude Stein, Denise Levertov, Hart Crane, Charles Baudelaire, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, Anne Sexton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Garcia Lorca, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman, Amari Baraka, Carl Sandburg, John Updike, James Kochalka, Haruki Murakami,
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..MOVIES!!!
Jules et Jim, La Strada, Rashomon, High Noon, On The Water Front, Racoon War, Dog Fight, The Bicycle Thief, The Saddest Music in the World, Roman Holiday, Auntie Mame, Freaks!, Triplets of Belleville, Lolita, Wonderboys, City of Lost Children, Cabin Fever, Wet Hot American Summer, Heavenly Creatures, Donnie Darko, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, A Trip to the Moon, Don't Look Back, Eat the Document, Pather Panchali, Amelie, Spirited Away, Tonari Totoro, Grave of Fireflies, Total Eclipse, Documentaries about, maritime disasters, the great flood, flightless birds and airships, and also giant ice age beasts!
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GENERAL!!!
Victrola, old floor model radio’s, 78's, sacred harp, medicine show, old time music, WPA, FSA, Sally Mann, Nihongo, Diane Arbus, Sexy women, freak folk, Hiroshige, Clawhammer Banjo, Civil War reenactment, Gandy dancers, Ghosts, spooks, wraiths, and haints!, Steamboat Races, Mandolin, true love, Hammond Organs, Crypto-zoology, the unexplained, Medical anomalies, la fee verte, Bowling Pins, natural history museums, Old Lanterns, Absinthe, Tea, DIVERSE ENTERPRISES ENDEAVORS MISADVENTURES AND ASTONISHING PECULIARITIES. Christ himself! Autoharp, Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha, Lilies, My Bicycle! decadence, Steam Trains, H-Bar-C, Cowboy boots, Martin Guitars, piety, Strange cloud shapes, Vespa, Lambretta, Mod Revival! fear, Prairie Grass, Barbed wire, Pastis, Old Books, FOLK MUSIC, Stereopticons, Flesh, Shibuya, abandoned buildings, Scorpions, Daguerreotypes, Sex, Indian food, Egyptology, Twilight, Old Farmsteads, truth, Champagne, film, Road Trips, small "boats", broken glass, pomegranates, thunderstorms, Dilapidated barns, Lilacs, Mountain Dulcimer, fin de siècle, Christianity, Melon Fanta!, House On The Rock, Lighthouses, ornithology, wine, TREASURE! Erotica, Sushi, Otters, Canoes, Camping, Singing, Basho, Ishiki, Mega fauna, Mothballs, Little bear, Being in the Union, Koala Yummies, dancing at shows, Old Stamps and coins, skeleton keys, picnics, belle époque, art deco, Thai Red Curry, Gramaphones and Phonographs, Noodle shops… Lots of other stuff…
| | Sounds Like | Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Woody Guthrie , The Carter Family, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Bob Dylan, Donovan. Old Time Folk Music!
 | | Type of Label | Major |
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