Pokey 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.
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Influences
Fats 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
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
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-“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
the chick that opened for the avett bros spoke excellent words about you and i was the ONLY one in the crowd that went, "woo hoooooooo!!!!!!" she said you were like OMNIsomething.
I'm happy to have finally met you in St. Louis this past Thursday. Your set there (and at Esmont Rocks) was wonderful. I'm looking forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh next month. You make beautiful music indeed.
i surely like your wes coas album. folks out here are still talkin about you, and you'll be back in no time (tis a rapid thing). i like seeing you're playin with the felice bros next week. make sure you give knoxville my love here in a couple weeks and I'll see ya there for my birthday blueplate. :)
Good talking to you and sharing a Budweiser in Leland on Saturday! I got a lot of good photos I will post later. Anyway..just wanted to drop in and say hello.
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