George Hanrahan (bass, vocals), Gene Orlowski (guitar, ukulele, vocals), Bob Rhubart (guitar, mandolin, lap steel, vocals), Jeff Zanders (harmonica, vocals), Jamie Thornburg (fiddle).
Influences
In no particular order:
Bob Dylan, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Duke Robillard, Charlie Robison, Dwight Yoakam, The Band, Buck Owens, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Pete Droge, Fred Eaglesmith, Lowell George, The Lovin' Spoonful, The V-Roys, The Derailers, The Byrds, Buddy Miller, Dave Alvin, Blue Mountain, Billy Joe Shaver, Carl Perkins, Robbie Fulks, Kieran Kane, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, The Gourds, Old Crow Medicine Show, Railroad Earth, The Bottle Rockets, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones, Elvis, Radney Foster, Hank Williams, Hank III, Reno & Smiley, Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler, NRBQ, John Prine, Santo & Johnny, Gram Parsons, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Delbert McClinton, The Black Keys, The Tarbox Ramblers, The Asylum Street Spankers, the Kent State Folk Festival, the Black Swamp Arts and Music Festival, and a cast of thousands...
Sounds Like
Two different people at two different shows indicated that we reminded them of the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack. Those people were probably drunk.
Even the most remote comparision to that sound and those musicians is a) crazy, b) extraordinarily flattering, and c) crazy.
The Elderly Brothers (the band, not the brothers themselves) formed in the spring of 2001, under the assumption that guys in bands get all the hot chicks. They were later to learn that the guys in bands who get the hot chicks don't, as a rule, worry about things like high blood-pressure, high cholesterol, fallen arches, lower-back pain, and even lower self-esteem. Like many of the guys in the bands that get the hot chicks, the Elderly Brothers take lots of drugs. Sadly, these drugs are prescribed to treat the aforementioned aliments, and offer little recreational value.
The Elderly Brothers perform a variety of songs that, mostly by pure coincidence, involve trucks, trains, the consumption of alcohol, and the various forms of heartbreak, including marriage and the termination thereof. Their repertoire leans heavily toward the musical genre known as Americana, drawing on 50s rock 'n roll, 60s pop music, 70s country rock, folk, traditional country, alternative country, blues, jazz, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fallen arches, lower-back pain, and even lower self-esteem.
