duppy a jamba

Bio:

NEW 7" OUT NOW AVAILABLE AT ANY SHOW AND NOW AT INTERPUNK.COM http://interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=182447& started in the spring of 2006 and minted at a legendary 420 house party, the duppy a jamba began as an experimental quartet playing simple countrified ska and reggae, since then the group has grown into a 7 piece juggernaut of old timey ska, languid rocksteady, funky-punky reggae and smoked out dub delighting dancers and drinkers, smokers and thinkers across the cincinnati area, we have opened the cincy punk fest, we have closed the cincy ska fest, we have been nominated for two CEA's 'best world music', we are seven men on a mission...ghost of the crawfish...every spoil a style... .. "The biggest thrill of the nominations for me was seeing Duppy ..A Jamba up for Best World Music...The Duppies are an amazing old school aggro-Ska band that plays with furious Punk energy. If you like old Dub Reggae and early Ska, you gotta check ‘em out." -Rick Hickey, Citybeat

Member Since:

February 19, 2006

Members:

jeff rickels: djembes and percussions ~ daniel peterson: drum kit ~ mike felger: bass ~ ax duckworth: piano, organ ~ j duckworth: gitz, vox~ brain gilronan: saxaphone, vox ~

Influences:

steel pulse, augustus pablo, homesick james, h-bomb ferguson, robert johnson, toots and the maytals, jackie mittoo, the agrovators, Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters, Culture, The Revolutionaries, Black Uhuru, Tom Waits, Thelonius Monk, NIN, Choking Victim, King Tubby, Dizzy Gillepsie, Fatal Feathers, Hank Williams (the FIRST!), BMW, the ROOTS, Percy Sledge, Otis Redding, Burning Spear, Coltrane, three6 mafia, skatalites (and any derivation of the Llyods, Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso, Ernst Ranglin, etc) desmond dekker, Dead Prez, Shakira (lord 'a mercy), Charlie Parker, Black Sabbath, jonny cash, the backseat drivers, gto, Fugees, the slackers, ari up, madness, rancid, keith frank, chris ardoin, the melodians, the heptones, the specials, don drummond...

Sounds Like:

a smokey ska rocksteady reggae dub party...filtered through old jazz and soul, delta blues, old timey country and saucy zydeco, funk and punk, industrial and hip hop...political and personal...from the city streets to the hills and hollars...

Record Label:

The Jambalaya Recording Co. of Newport Kentucky