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
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.
Looking forward to going out to play at the open mic and listen to good music, (after it cools down some. I used to live out there but I'm not used to the heat anymore) Thanks for the add.
ALEXANDRA HOPE "Invisible Sunday" is nine introspective guitar and drum infused pop. Spending the majority of her young life wandering between Minneapolis, Paris and New York City she has taken her cues from Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey and Elliot Smith.
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a documentary shot by our friend, part time joshua tree/new yorker john pirozzi and featuring numerous joshua tree musicians is showing in new york city next month. much of the footage was shot at the chuckwalla festival (pappy and harriet's) as well as the beatnik cafe. it's a nice snapshot of a moment in our history here.
NOWHERE NOW Directed by Don DiNicola Joshua Tree, CA has become a mecca for exciting musical voices. The film features artists--from Victoria Williams and Eric Burdon to Gram Parsons and Gram Rabbit--who have chosen to make this high-desert community their home. Each artist has his or her unique story, but all have had to face the conflict between artistic identity and survival in the music industry. The nature of their stories ties into a deep tradition of storytelling, and Nowhere Now examines how this tradition is affected by our notions of success and failure in the industry.
