"Coming at your ears with near-criminal intent, 'The Hobocamp Mudshow' is a wild and wonderful offering of sonic roots-rock with a slight Caribbean twist...A glorious romp from start to finish."
-Peter McGee, BluesBunny.com 12/2009
"...Furious Frank is a group rather than one irate individual, and that communal spirit lends itself to an amiable vibe belying its surly moniker. The outfit's scrappy kitchen-sink concoctions easily rally an eager audience." -TimeOut Chicago 12/2009
Furious Frank is a formidable yet friendly group of Chicagoans who, on their debut album The Hobocamp Mudshow, are diligently working at the perfection of a unique yet warmly familiar brand of rootsy sonic spillage.
Sometimes they are raucous and celebratory, at other times gritty and introspective; they can vamp, chug, clang, wail, groove, pull bow and pluck (+ strum) string, one moment recklessly rocking the party and then at another expertly bringing down the level of intensity just enough so that two people can, if they so choose, clasp hands and sway.
Furious Frank can concoct some wicked gypsy ska on “Another Life”, border on something approximating a low-key collaboration between Tom Waits and Calexico on “Hunkr Down”, and most importantly, bob and weave into a heavy handful of welcome areas that are much less easy to define. Suffice to say, the band kick up some serious dust that just screams out for a bonfire and a large metal pot full of some sort of simmering sustenance, an epicurean delight that’s destined to be ladled out liberally for the enjoyment of everyone.
But the band (at just the right moment) wet down the ground that’s hosting their righteous get-down with the intention that the limbs of those cavorting to their sounds will joyously stomp into the moist soil and allow the thick earthiness to get between their toes and through their pores and into their blood and (finally) into their hearts and consciousness. That, bluntly put, is what Furious Frank and The Hobocamp Mudshow is all about. Getting dirty never felt so liberating.
THE JIM ROSE CIRCUS VS. JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS TOUR we are looking for wrestlers,variety,burlesque,comics,freak show and circus acts..PLEASE message us here..if you are a BAND please get us contact info for your local promoter that is INTERESTED in booking this show.. message us here too..if we get the booking because of your contact info you can open for us..please dont have managers contacting us unless they have a gig with guarantees..we dont do door deals..sorry for sounding harsh on that one...FANS FANS FANS this show is going to be amazing..keep checking this site for tour dates and updates we start on the west coast july 3rd thanks jim
Hi jim rose here. yes im the actor who plays the caveman on the commercials so now you have something to tease me about the next time we see each other. Im going to be in your area in the summer hosting rock shows and writing a new book about the people I meet on the road. We should throw a small party together. If you want to hang out ,message me at my other site here www. myspace. com/toohotforfizzle or go to my top friend(same site) We dont read the messages at the circus site. we are getting too many to handle there There are too many there and hard to manage
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