Proving that, indeed, it's all for the children, SIT & Die Co. preaches "Don't Try This At Home, Kids" at a recent appearance at the world famous Rodeo Bar in New York City. Funny, but from the stage one could swear that the audience was actually listening. Kind thanks to Little Lenore Koppelman for the clip!
Company founder Michael McMahon sings, plays the electrified "takeoff" guitar and composes both heart and novelty songs, while Garth Powell anchors the beat on his "doghouse" bass and harmonizes along with flat-top rhythm guitar player "Jukejoint" Jonny Hammer. The band members number only three, but at times you'd swear that there's nearly four of them.
Pictured below: Three guys abroad. SIT & Die Co. appears north of the border at the swell "Red Hot & Blue" annual rockabilly festival near Montreal, Quebec. Photo courtesy of Cadillac Al.
Influences
The SIT & Die Co. songbook is often likely to feature a number by one of the many Hillbilly, Rhythm & Blues or "Rockabilly" artists that they so admire, possibly along the likes of Hank Williams, Hank Penny, Bill Carlisle, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Don Gibson, Billy Ward or Bob Newman, but folks seem to go for their original compositions best, so that's what predominates, with a good number of them being about animals, for no particular reason. Chickens, monkeys and jackrabbits aside, novelty songs make for a good time in a nightclub and that suits the SIT & Die boys just fine!
Pictured below: "Hey mister, I want a Fudgesicle!" SIT & Die Co. braves the sunshine on the fabled Coney Island boardwalk at the 2007 Coney Island Rockabilly Festival. Photo courtesy of JR Cash (um, the other one, that is).
Sounds Like
The hillbilly boogie -- as in the kind of music that makes the beer bottles bounce on the tables, according to famed piano pounder Moon Mullican.
SIT & Die Co. does its darndest to keep those bottles bouncing, too, with a rollicking stage show that is never short on entertainment. Always dressed in their gabardine best and with a boot polish shine, the boys like to keep it lively -- whether giving out with an uptempo hillbilly number, a shuffling blues ballad or a flat out "real gone" rocking roller -- and all with plenty of snappy banter mixed in to keep things moving. Could be that you might find SIT & Die Co. to be just what your manufacturing requirements call for!
Pictured below: The Men In Black. SIT & Die Co. offers up a tribute to JR Cash to mark his February 26th birthday.
Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. is the little trio with the big Hillbilly sound, manufacturing quality-built "ballads, boogies & blues" from our downtown Manhattan production facilities since 2002. We invite you to visit our modern showroom at SITandDieCo.com and allow us to show you why "SIT & Die Co." is the affordable answer to your most exacting Hillbilly music needs!
Pictured below: The Greatest Show On Earth! Well, maybe just a close second, perhaps? SIT & Die appearing under the big top of the awe inspiring "Spiegeltent", in its first U.S. visit. What a tent!
What's this, SIT & Die Co.'s picture in the New York Post? The successful 4th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival has since passed and the newsprint edition has long since been recycled, but click on the article below for a more legible online version at NYPost.com. And thanks, ace columnist Mary Huhn! (Note: SIT & Die Co. does not wish to promote nor condone the senseless act of "gang twanging". Yes, we did it once, but only because it was part of an initiation rite and we really, really wanted to fit in with the other twangers. 'Nuf said, yo.)
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Good morning to my delectable trio! I thought I would wish you three a happy mother's day, because you are all a bunch of mutha's! Hahahaha! I love y'all all! xoxo Lil' Lenore and Henrietta :x
That's right, jazz. We're swinging it out here in Philly. And yes, I'm still the same old me, Michael. Just much, much happier. Come on out and play sometime; it's only a 2 hour ride. Surely your flivver can handle a 2 hour ride?
You boys were dreamy tonight! Thanks for gettin us up front! The whole way home we were talking all giddy about how many new songs y'all played. So THAT'S what you boys have been up to! ;) Deeeeeelicious! We love y'all to bits :x See you again soon! XOXO Steve & Lenore :) PS: Jon, what does one do when that happens to a guitar string? Do you put it in a shoe box, and bury it in the yard? Do ya flush it down the terlet? You played that string with ALL YOUR MIGHT! May it R.I.P.!!! PPS: Garth, sorry to hear bout your troubles with the burrito. Glad you made it back. ;)
