--Dan "Gramps" Rempel: guitar/vocals and hummus maker
--Chris "Red" Millspaugh: harmonica/trumpet and discusser of poop
--Jeffrey "Mr. Cool" Williams: guitar and smooth, like a baby's butt
--Nate "Slim" Craft: trombone/vocals and playa hater
--Sean "Sneaky Bert" McCue: Doghouse Bass and red on the head like the...
--Smokin' Bobby Reeves: Pots and Pans and has a cool nickname.
Influences
Jimmy Reed, T-bone walker, Big Walter, little walter, William Clarke, peidmont blues, post-war chicago blues, Duke Ellington, eddie durham, Django Reinhardt, Old Overholt, Old Grandad, Jack Teagarden, Kid Ory, Lee McBee, Hank Williams, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson(s), Gene Kruppa, Banjo Ikey Robinson, Emmett Miller, The Wilders, Old country, the kinetiks, Botch, Dixie Land, Jump Blues, Swing combos, Lester Young, count basie, 1930s Kansas City, 1950s Chicago, Big band, hillbilly boogie, western swing, ragtime. Old music in general.
Sounds Like
A Blues, Swing, New Orleans Jazz, Ragtime, Klezmer, Mexican waltz mutant.
While their name might seem to refer to a certain segment of the political spectrum, it turns out this group’s members aren’t necessarily communists. The simple truth is that two of the band’s members are red-headed and left-handed, the odds of which have yet to be calculated.
RedLefty mixes up blues, swing, country swing, ragtime and even a bit o' klezmer. Their set list ranges from dirty blues-harp boogies to swingin’ horn pieces to western swing guitar solos, that results in a unique melding of vintage American styles and genres designed to set toes a-tapping and get bodies to swinging on the dance floor.
Influenced mostly by older blues, swing and New Orleans jazz, they call their music "swingin’ blues", which is the short way of saying roots- folk- dixieland- bluegrass- country- klezmer- ragtime- hoedown- swing- blues music.
Going to see RedLefty will take the listener back to a bygone era, one in which band members actually dress up to take the stage and songs are not so much a rigid construction of written notes as they are a loose arrangement of parts vamped until everyone on stage has fully expressed themselves. RedLefty will give you the full experience of old-school swing or blues in a way that is simply hard to find these days.
RedLefty likes vintage music and vintage whiskey...and sometimes a nice merlot, but ALWAYS a good, dirty martini--and a lot of times just a good ol' PBR--but always water. hydration is essential.
