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Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
Roots Music / Country / Blues

New LP 'Riverboat Soul' out soon!



St. Louis, Missouri
United States

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   Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three: General Info
Member Since5/15/2006
Band Websitepokeylafarge.net
Band MembersPokey LaFarge: Vocals, Guitar, Guitjo, Harmonica, and Kazoo. and The South City Three: Adam "Boss Hoss" Hoskins: Guitar, Vocals. Joey Glynn: Upright Bass, Vocals. Ryan "Churchmouse" Koenig: Washboard, Harmonica, Vocals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States/Canada Booking pokeylafarge@gmail.com UK/IRELAND BOOKING & PUBLICITY: BROOKFIELD-KNIGHTS/BLOODYGREATPR TEL: + 44 (0) 1505 760346 E-mail: Info@brookfield-knights.com E-mail: Info@bloodygreatpr.com

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InfluencesFats Waller, Bessie Smith, Sleepy John Estes, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmie Rodgers, R. Crumb, Clarence Williams, Earl Hines, Kit Stovepipe, Crow Quill Nightowls, Woody Pines, Ray Charles, Jimbo Mathus, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Reverand Gary Davis ,Mississippi Sheiks, Millton Brown and His Musical Brownies, Blind Willie McTell, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Jelly Roll Morton, Blind Boy Fuller, Papa Charlie Jackson, Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Harlem Hamfats, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sidney Bechet, early Louis Armstrong, Charlie Poole, Uncle Dave Macon, and whole lot more.
Sounds Like".....a transgendered punk Bessie Smith..."-Riverfront Times, St. Louis, MO
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 2 2009 8:00P
Burt’s Tiki Lounge Salt Lake City, Utah
Nov 3 2009 8:00P
Pengilly’s Saloon Boise, Idaho
Nov 5 2009 9:00P
Green Frog Acoustic Tavern Bellingham, Washington
Nov 6 2009 9:00P
Sirens Pub Port Townsend, Washington
Nov 7 2009 9:00P
Conor Byrne Pub w/ Sassparilla Seattle, Washington
Nov 8 2009 8:00P
Alberta St. Pub Portland, Oregon
Nov 11 2009 9:00P
Sam Bond’s Garage w/ Blair St. Mugwumps Eugene, Oregon
Nov 12 2009 9:00A
Stillwater Ashland, Oregon
Nov 13 2009 8:00P
Cecil’s Garberville, California
Nov 14 2009 9:00P
Three Foods Cafe Arcata, California
Nov 15 2009 8:00P
Amnesia San Francisco, California
Nov 16 2009 8:00P
Rock n’ Roll Pizza Woodland Hills, California
Nov 19 2009 9:00P
Mia’s Lounge Flagstaff, Arizona
Nov 20 2009 8:00P
Taos Inn Taos, New Mexico
Nov 21 2009 6:00P
Cowgirl BBQ Santa Fe, New Mexico
Nov 24 2009 8:00P
Continental Club w/ The Umbrella Man Houston, Texas
Nov 25 2009 8:00P
Allways Lounge w/ Meschiya Lake New Orleans, Louisiana
Nov 26 2009 8:00P
Chelsea’s Cafe Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Nov 27 2009 9:00P
Parrish Baker’s Pub Oxford, Mississippi
Nov 28 2009 9:00P
Martins w/ Mayhem String Band Jackson, Mississippi
Dec 4 2009 9:00P
Passtimes Pub Sarasota, Florida
Dec 5 2009 9:00P
Dave’s Aqua Lounge St. Petersburg, Florida
Dec 7 2009 9:00P
Robbie O’Connel’s Irish Pub Daytona Beach, Florida
Dec 10 2009 8:00P
Mo’ Daddy’s Asheville, North Carolina
Dec 11 2009 9:00P
Green Lantern Lexington, Kentucky
Dec 12 2009 9:00P
Monkey Wrench w/ Nathan Blake Lynn Louisville, Kentucky
Jan 22 2010 8:00P
UK Tour TBA (Scotland/England/Wales) UK
Feb 12 2010 8:00P
Stillwater Taproom Augusta, Georgia

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   About Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
Pokey LaFarge was born in the heartland of America and took to the open roads at a young age, earning the key to the freedom by hitching rides and writing boxcar ballads that spun tales of a boy finding his way through this big wide-open country. He submerged himself with the most American of music and embraced himself in the beauty of the land while picking and strumming with down-home groups everywhere he went, falling in with traveling caravans of vaudeville poets and hell-raising bluegrass pickers alike.

In true rambler fashion, LaFarge does not look back; he looks only forward on the next road ready approaching with his guitar in his hand and his voice ready to fly. His influence is deeply rooted in the heroes and misfits of yesterday; the long lost troubadours of country, the kings of swamp-drentched ragtime, and all the legendary bluesmen of the Cotton Kingdom. The result is a boiling pot of American cultures; a wonderfully fresh and quirky kind of pop music that combines delta-meets-appalachia song-writing with a big, big beat.

Even though the songs were birthed in the hills and country towns of old America, don't call it old-timey; LaFarge is here to grace it into this modern and electric world. Along with his refreshing take on tradition, Pokey brings his irresistible charm and genuinely romantic outlook on, not only subjects such as the rivers and the land itself, but universal topics such as love, death, and real adventure. With a firm grasp on personal freedom and Shakespearean insight on humanity, Pokey remains one of the very few folks who consistently turn the abstract into a concrete reality.

Music is not just chords and notes and melody. To a person who truly loves music, it is a medium to celebrate this life. For Pokey, every show is a celebration - juke-joint style - where women twirl in their dresses and the fellas stomp their feet and clap their hands. To this day, Mr. LaFarge is still finding tranquility within the yellow highway lines playing up to two-hundred shows a year bringing his music to anyone young and old who is willing to listen.

"His guitar sounds like a ukulele, his voice like a transgendered punk Bessie Smith, and his style suggests a hobo Pee-wee Herman. .." Riverfront Times St. Louis, Mo.

"No matter how deep and colorful the ink, the plunk and stomp of Pokey’s music always rises to the top." - LEO Weekly, Louisville, KY

"Pokey LaFarge’s songs sound immediately like classics: musical gems from some forgotten corner of the 20th century." - Nailgunmedia.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -“Following hot on Dan Hick’s idiosyncratic heels is a twenty something acoustic warrior named Pokey LaFarge, who makes a bigger, more lasting impression playing kazoo and guitar than his pop-mainstream competition makes fronting entire electrified bands. A vocal polymorph, he shifts effortlessly from Gus Cannon–style jug-band humor ("Mr. Nobody") to Mississippi John Hurt–style pathos ("Josephine") through two indie albums of original material. This itinerant Kentucky-bred minstrel name-checks everybody from Bessie Smith and Guy Clark to Femi Kuti as influences on his MySpace page, where he proudly tags his own recordings "riverboat soul." Carol Cooper, Village Voice, New York, Ny

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Punk Beer Rodeo

Punk Beer Rodeo



Nov 9 2009 11:51 PM

Featuring the lead singer of The Legendary Shack Shakers in The Dirt Daubers and The Dexter Romweber Duo who were just produced by Jack White!!!  Friday, Nov. 20th!!!

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Doug

Doug



Nov 8 2009 6:40 PM

iowa city,iowa digs your stuff! please come and visit us?
Grażyna Doris

Grażyna Doris



Nov 8 2009 2:52 PM


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Punky's Gutbucket

Punky's Gutbucket



Nov 7 2009 4:04 AM


 
Nice to meet you....
Family Business

Family Business



Nov 4 2009 6:03 AM

Thanks for the friendship add!!!  Much appreciated.  Check out our music on our Family Business site.  It is mostly me and my sons and what we do for fun.  Let me know what you think.  Thanks, Steve


Tommy Oliverio

Tommy Oliverio



Nov 3 2009 10:12 PM

ahhhhhhhh haaaaaaaa
kae

kae fisher



Oct 29 2009 2:36 AM

A big HELLO from Dave and Kae. Whitesburg ain't the same. Come back real soon.
Urban Monroes

Urban Monroes



Oct 28 2009 10:17 PM



Hello,
We’re just dropping by to say howdy and thanks for being friends with us
We hope you have a great day
~the Urban Monroes

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Kentucky Slim and the Hillbilly BluesCats

Kentucky Slim and the Hillbilly BluesCats



Oct 22 2009 1:35 AM

Thanks for the add Pokey! Love your music.
Gary V.

Gary V.
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Oct 21 2009 11:46 PM

Hi Pokey Lafarge,I thankyou,so much for your friendship,All the best,Keep in touch.GARY V.
Debauche

Debauche



Oct 20 2009 9:33 PM

Greets from theRUSSIAN M A F I A band !
 

Alison

Alison



Oct 20 2009 1:21 AM

Seeing yall in Charlottesville was fun, especially the free patrone! Safe travels to all of you. See ya soon I hope!
Tommy Oliverio

Tommy Oliverio



Oct 19 2009 3:41 AM

wish i could have made it to the cd release party, i'm sure it twas a rager indeed
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Charlie Sullivan II



Oct 18 2009 7:35 PM

Stoked about the new cd!
Woodstove Flapjacks Stringband

Woodstove Flapjacks Stringband



Oct 17 2009 5:19 PM

Raw G!

really enjoyed having you guys in town. let's do it again.

Take care.

-James
Mary

Mary



Oct 16 2009 7:19 PM

LOVE what you fellas do live! Remember, when you're in Streetboro, OH, to Buy Jay A Beer at the HTHC series.
Tyler

Tyler Osborne



Oct 15 2009 9:00 PM

The new record is swell, guys. Glad I could pick up a copy.

Good to meet you last night in Charlottesville. Hope to see you around soon

Best,
Tyler
chr___l_ie.

Charlie Sullivan II



Oct 15 2009 7:54 PM


Chris Doherty

Chris Doherty



Oct 14 2009 12:45 AM

Met and played some tunes on State St. in Madtown w/ Banjo Kyle a few weeks back.  As you already know; stop by Snapper City anytime!

Much Love and keep doin what ya do,
Your Acoustic Hoss
Victory Squat

Victory Squat



Oct 12 2009 6:49 PM

I saw the South City Three in a crazy late 1800's movie called "Dead Birds" yesterday.  Yunz are pretty good actors!  Pokey wasn't in it though.
D.B. Rielly

D.B. Rielly



Oct 12 2009 1:53 PM

Dang, you boys sound right good!
Pleasure to meecha last night and hoping the road leads us to run into each other again someday soon.
- D.B.
Steve Winham

Steve Winham



Oct 10 2009 11:19 AM

Hey, I've just added my first video, love to know what you think?. Steve x
Rachel

Rachel I.



Oct 9 2009 5:09 AM

The new pictures are awesome! Hope you guys are doing well! Come back to Knoxville soon! Can't wait for the new cd!

Rachel
Janet Kettner

Janet Kettner



Oct 7 2009 7:08 PM

Your music is fun to listen to. Thanks for adding me to your circle of friends.
D.B. Rielly

D.B. Rielly



Oct 6 2009 9:34 PM

DB MySpace Greeting
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