Located in Pioneertown, CA in the high desert near Palm Springs and Joshua Tree, Pappy and Harriet's is the best honky-tonk this side of the Mississippi, featuring some of the best music in the world. Home to high desert musicians such as Victoria Williams, The Thrift Store All Stars, Ted Quinn, Tim Easton, Cockrobin, Deborah Iyall, Honky Tonk Train, Bingo's Dream Band, Wooden Nickle, Shaun Mafia, Rim Rock Rhythm Pushers, Shari Elf and the Fairy Elf Band, Jackie Young, The Rojer Arnold Band, Shadow Mountain Band, Purple Mountain Matinee, and many many more. Open Thursday through Monday, with live music nightly including Pappy Hour Sundays w/ The Thrift Store All Stars. Past shows include Lucinda Williams, The Donnas, Rickie Lee Jones, Robert Plant, Neko Case, Daniel Lanois, Ralph Stanley, Gram Rabbit, Shelby Lynne, Jem, Cat Power, The Blasters, Wanda Jackson, Throw Rag, The Supersuckers, Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter, Leon Russell, earthlings?, The Handsome Family, The Duke Spirit, The Ditty Bops, Bartender's Bible, Inara George, Cracker, Camper van Beethoven, John Doe, Eagles of Death Metal, The Spores, Concrete Blonde, Rosie Flores, I See Hawks in LA, Burrito Deluxe, Sin City All Stars, Shooter Jennings, M. Ward, Savoy Brown, Canned Heat, Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo, Romeo Void, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Mike Stinson, Jesse Colter, Sky Saxon and The Seeds, Jonathan Richman, Giant Sand, Calexico, eastmountainsouth, Graham Parker, Michele Shocked, Stan Ridgeway, Lana Rebel, Juke Logan, Steve Poltz, The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Dead Rock West, and many many more! Past festivals include Campout with Cracker & CVB, Chuckwalla, GramFest and Sagefest in the outdoor western amphitheater. We also have the best BBQ!
Influences
Alt Country, Country AND Western, Swing, Rock, Rockabilly, Folk, Blugrass, Alternative, Punk Rock, American Roots, Twangadelic and everything else in between, beeeotch!
Sounds Like
"Run by the ex-New Yorkers Linda Krantz and Robyn Celia, Pappy & Harriet's is a must stop for musicians like Lucinda Williams, PJ Harvey and Leon Russell. Sunday afternoons are when the local desert rock bands come out, among them Gram Rabbit, Angel Thrift and Queens of the Stone Age. On a recent Thursday afternoon, Jessica Von Rabbit, the lead singer of Gram Rabbit, was drinking a mug of beer at the end of a long wooden bar, outfitted in a fur-lined coat and big red sunglasses.
In any other small desert town her midday vampy-rock star appearance might have caused hostile stares. But in Joshua Tree, she was just another local."
~Julia Chaplin, NY Times
Stroll around historic Pioneertown, enjoy BBQ under the stars & groove to a live band at this historic wild west watering hole in the mountains - there's usually no cover, and you might hear anything from bluegrass to country to rockabilly to indie rock, and everything in between.
Pioneertown was built in 1946 as a movie set for western movies, including the movies of Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid, with Duncan Renaldo, Annie Oakley with Gail Davis, Judge Roy Bean with Edgar Buchanan, Range Rider with Jock O. Mahoney, and Buffalo Bill Jr. with Dick Jones. The movie set was to provide a place for the actors to live, and have their homes used as part of a movie set. Some of the original investors in the town were Roy Rogers, who also built the Pioneer Bowl, Sons of the Pioneers, which the town was named after, Dick Curtis who was a professional villian in old movies, Bud Abbott, Russell Hayden, who played Lucky on the Hoppalong Cassidy series, Louella Parsons the Hollywood gossip columnist and Philip N. Krasne: The Man Who Saved Pioneertown.
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...
"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters.
Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...
The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...
Hey, I recorded a new song yesterday, it's called Masquerade--based on the ballroom scene of Romeo and Juliet. Just wanted to stop by and give you the free download if you'd like it and haven't picked it up yet:
I hope you enjoy it; if you do, please pass it on to your friends and spread the love :)
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Coming to Pappy's tonight for Leon Russel and the Pappy's All Stars! Life is good!
