Fur Dixon - Vocals, rhythm guitar, songwriter... Previous bands: the Whirlybirds & the Screamin' Sirens (1983), Hollywood Hillbillys (1984-86) the Cramps (1986), the Dixons (1987-1989). Went solo in 1990. Joined up with the best partner I've ever had, Steve Werner, in 2003.
Steve Werner - Vocals & lead guitar, songwriter. Previous bands: the Mentones (1983) This Train (1987) the Avengers (1989) Steve Werner and the Sleepwalkers (1991) Through the 90's was bandleader and rockabilly guitarist for Glen Glenn, Johnny Legend, Tony "Wildman" Conn, Ray Campi, Sonny Burgess, Jimmy Angel, Tommy Sands and Jewel Akins. In '91 wrote an album of rockabilly originals for John Whiteleather & the Kingrats and toured with his band throughout Scandinavia. 2001 released album "Biker Campfire" acoustic biker folk songs (available on CD Baby and I-Tunes) . Started playing solo a lot and really putting the rubber to the road.
Became pals with biker music-legends the Fryed Brothers Band in 2000 and play with them frequently. Met Fur in 2003 and the rest is a gravy!
Influences
Fur's influences: My grandmother Blanche, Thich Nhat Hanh, all the old timers who came before, and....the Dutch. Fur plays a Blueridge guitar.
Steve: NORMAN BLAKE, JOHN HARTFORD, WOODY GUTHRIE, RAMBLIN JACK, THE MAN IN BLACK, JOHN PRINE, JIMMY MARTIN, COWBOY POET WADDY MITCHELL, RIDERS IN THE SKY, ALL GREAT COWBOY MUSIC AND POETRY, GUY CLARK, TOWNES VAN ZANDT, MARTIN GUITARS, BMW, HARLEY-DAVIDSON, VICTORY MOTORCYCLES AND FORD TRUCKS ......
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Sounds Like
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Fur Dixon and Steve Werner seemed to have been moving on parallel courses until they bumped smack-dab into each other onstage in Los Angeles in 2003. Their lives before then had led each around the world playing music. That rainy night the two travelers met, and kindred spirits now connected, they have been performing together ever since.
Fur is a hand-crafted songwriter and angel-voiced cowgirl. She gathers her musical influences from Gillian Welch, June and Mother Maybelle Carter, Hazel Dickens, and Johnny Cash. As a teen, she cut her teeth singing in church and winning musical contests. Fur has played rockabilly and hard driving country music with Los Angeles bands the Hollywood Hillbilly's and the Screamin' Sirens. She's lived and played in Austin, New York, and has toured Europe on bass with Psycho-punk legends the Cramps. Fur's songs come straight out of her heart. Her voice is playful, melodious and seductive. When she sings you a story of hope and heartache you know she has traveled every mile of that journey. Fur is the voice of an old friend, heard across a campfire on a starry night, a voice that calls upon ghosts of another time, when the Carters and the Stanleys sang those same truths around the home fires of their beloved hills. Steve is an unrepentant Motorcycle-riding, hard-traveling folksinger. He is a Flat-pickin', Travis-pickin' son of a gun and his original songs have the timeless quality of classic folk songs. Steve made his name as guitarist and band leader for original fifties rockabilly singers like Glen Glenn, Ray Campi, Johnny Legend, Tony "Wildman" Conn, Sonny Burgess and Tommy Sands. Hes played Lollapalooza and opened for Bob Dylan. His first album, Biker Campfire, has become a staple in the motorcycle world. The songs he wrote for ex-patriot American rocker John Whiteleather, in Sweden, scored on the charts all over Europe, where he travels frequently. Yet, for all that rockin, folk music has always been his first love, his heart and his home. With his trusty Martin HD-28 He's played all over the world from Japan to Europe and all across the USA. An old-school troubadour trained in the ways of his heroes Woody Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Steve keeps that grand tradition alive in fine rough and rowdy style.
Together, Fur and Steve are a combination that cant be matched. In their guitars theres the smoke of a thousand campfires. When they sing harmony it'll raise the hair on your arms. Listen to their words and you'll want to pack up, climb into the back of their pickup truck and head out for a musical joyride down the dusty highways and backroads of the American west.
We love trains... Photo by Shannon Allbright C2006..
What better way to start a Sunday morning than with sweet potato pancakes and your music on the stereo! Life is good! I hope you'll be here in the flesh some morning.... xx
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Thanks for being a Friend of The Long gone Smiles Band.
We are headin backwards on the shiny railroad tracks of Country Music and do the songs of Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams, and our own music in their powerful style.
We got their music - but we miss their smiles!
Best regards from The Long gone Smiles Band The Swedish Champions in Pure Country Music
Just stopping by to see where you're playing...and it looks like I'll be in Australia the next time you're playing. Sigh. Please let me know if anything new gets booked. I'm a huge fan. It was a pleasure meeting you in Tucson, if I didn't mention that already. :) Karen
Awesome show in the incredible Topanga canyon heat yesterday! Already working on plans to make sure that we're at the Getty (it's a bit of a drive on a Friday evening from the OC). We _will_ be able to buy the new album then, right? :-)
You guys were the highlight of the Topanga festival yesterday... so much awesome energy, in spite of the crazy heat. Love the new songs... Still love the old songs... Just good stuff all the way 'round. Thank you.
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