Kid Congo Powers. vocals/ guitar
KiKi Solis Bass / vocals
Jason Ward/Guitar &Keys
Ron Miller Drums /vocals &Keys
Jesse Roberts/ Guitar &Keys
Influences
THE GUN CLUB. THE CRAMPS. NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS. KNOXVILLE GIRLS. CONGO NORVELL. 1970'S LOU REED ALBUMS. SOUL FINGER BY THE BAR KAYS. FUZZY GARAGE BANDS. RAUNCHY SOUL SHOUTERS. POST PUNK POETS LIKE BARRY WHITE AND LEONARD COHEN...............................................
Sounds Like
The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds, Congo Norvell, Knoxville Girls, Kid & Khan
On his new album, DRACULA BOOTS, out March 2009 on INTHERED Records, the legendary Kid Congo Powers returns to the psychedelic jungle with a stripped down, no frills set of volcanic songs. Kid, the premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy swampy bands like Gun Club, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Cramps is a restless aesthete. He used his earlier solo efforts to explore vocals and mix genres. With DRACULA BOOTS, Kid comes back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him; the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock.
It only made sense to record such glittering gems as Thee Midniters "I Found A Peanut" and Bo Diddley's "Funky Fly" in a high school gymnasium. He did this in a Midwest town called Harveyville with his nefarious Pink Monkey Birds. Bassist Kiki Solis from El Paso,TX. and Drummer Ron Miller from Macon,Ga. provided the southern soul sauce needed to fuel the engine of the rhythm train. Recording on a stage using the old PA system created a natural reverb, summoning the magic of a bygone prom interrupted by a juvenile delinquent rumble.
The original songs on DRACULA BOOTS go from loud, fuzzy biker rock (Hitchhiking) to a greasy rump shaker groove (Bobo Boogie), from a scary movie soundtrack (La Llarona) to The Meters having an acid flashback (Black Santa).
So sink your teeth into this hunk of wax and waste no time strapping on your DRACULA BOOTS. You will dance your way from the cradle to the grave, and beyond. Buy DRACULA BOOTS ON ITUNES
.........................www.kidcongopowers.com.............................
.............U.S. Booking Contact:
Todd Cote at Leafy Green Booking
todd@leafygreen.com
http://www.leafygreen.com.............................................................................................
EU Booking Contact:
Andrea Scholz at IBD Booking
andrea@ibdbooking.de.....................................
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Hey, I just blew my pay on a return flight down to Melbourne the week after next to see Spence play - he's keeping as well as you look to be, just not as lairy!
Please bring your Pink Monkey Birds down to play in Australia some time soon...
I am so bummed I missed your show, while I was in NYC! I guess I will have to fly to your next gig! Glad you finally made it back to L.A. (or Hell-A), like my Bayarrhea Sis calls it.
We want to see you in Toronto and Hamilton (This Ain't Hollywood). Just came off of Cheetah chrome and Walter Lure playing here.. it's your band's turn. We love rock n roll! Lou Molinaro (This Ain't Hollywood) is the promoter.
