Jason "Fil" Pate - Mandolin
Tug Winthrop - Dobro/Vocals
Tony Caruso - Guitar/Vocals
Brian Lane - Upright Bass
Fred Donovan - Guitar/Vocals
Influences
Bill Monroe, Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, David Grisman, Jerry Douglas, Rob Ickes, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall, Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan,
Sam Bush, David Grier, Doc Watson, Psychograss, The Hackensaw Boys, Tony Furtado, Miles Davis, Chris Thile, Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain String Band, Larry Keel, Acoustic Syndicate, John Hartford, Dave Mason, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs with Kentucky Thunder, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Waybacks, The Codetalkers, The Grateful Dead, Donna the Buffalo, Johnny Cash, Joe Craven and the list continues....
Sounds Like
Throw it down, work it out, shake your groove thang, dance your ass off psychobilly jamgrass - Yeah!
Pickford Sundries - Tampa, Florida …an almost purely random assortment of five musicians from across the country that share an uncommon love of a dying American art form that is seldom mastered, and rarely profitable. An air force brat bass player from Texas, rhythm guitar and vocals from Long Island, New York, a mandolin player from North Carolina, a lead guitar player from Pensacola, and a Dobro player navy brat from Switzerland Florida, stuck somewhere in age between the material driven wake of the baby boomers and the bright-eyed look of the gen X-ers, these boys somehow find the time between day jobs, kids, wives, and honeydo’s, to play and practice bluegrass in lieu of therapy, medication, or AA. Their musical heroes range from Miles Davis to Bill Monroe and anything or anybody decent, hardworking, talented, or honest in-between. If you’d like a little sip of raw, acoustic, unfiltered, non-digitized Americana, strongly flavored by Scotch-Irish melodies and Appalachian pain (black & white), uncompromised by the modern musical factories, then you come on out and see the Sundries for yourself.
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Whats up! Just wanted to let you know I have FREE VIP tickets to our upcoming networking party on the OrlandoBands.com site for our Networking Party on Saturday Sept. 26th. Here are some details:
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-Open mic event-Band and Industry professional interviews- $1 Raffles (click below to see all the prizes!) Come and hang your banner! Free vendor space
-This event will be streamed online LIVE and seen throughout the world! Thanks to Right Step Media for their donation of a multiple camera video shoot!
Today I ventured to the House On the Hill in search of a Dixie Hoedown. Wouldn't you know that the Pickford Sundries were layin' down some Lonesome Fiddle Blues against the Shady Grove horizon.
Suddenly I had the urge to dance, laugh, and soak up that jam-grass vibe. Luckily, Fil Pate and boys had an extra Mag Rag to help cool me down.......
BRAVO! A first night Traffic ripoff on Central faster than the New Years blasts outside. Hotter than fireworks, surely foreshadowing blazes to come. Enter Pickford Sundries from Lower Bama Brooklyn ... Lina. :-) Happy Trails - Bruce
