It's a rare SIT & Die Co. road trip in October, all the way to exotic Pawtucket, Rhode Island for "The Colonel's Super Dooper Guitar Party" -- and what a party! Click on the poster for details...
Bluegrass"? Um...not that we're aware of, at least, but why quibble over the finer points of a nice mention in (see article below) New York magazine?! They got the moustaches right and that's what's important. Oh, and just ask if you'd like to hear the referenced men's room story. But, no, George Michael was not involved...
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 (as reviewed in the article above, as a matter of fact). Funny, but from the stage one could swear that the audience was actually listening. Kind thanks to Little Lenore Koppelman for the clip!
THE LOWDOWN: 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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Come out Saturday night for SMDD's Thanksgiving Rock 'n' roll BASH!!!
The Othermen, Thee Borders(Back CC's side project), and but of course
Charlie & the Crybabies!!! If you haven't seen us live yet, this is
the show to go to, we're playin w/ two great rock 'n' roll bands and a
great Rockabilly dj (Kick from Rebelnight & the Back CCs).
This Weekend Max & the Tatraplan 2 x Live Friday 30 Oct 2009 Aarau Floesserplatz Saturday 31 Oct 2009 Zurich La Catrina / FREE ENTRY ! GRATIS :) cheers & bye bye Max & The Tatraplan
NEW POSTED!! Our rock and roll weekender will be July 16, 17 and 18th 2010! The 16th and 17th will take place at the Warsaw in Williamsburg Brooklyn, the 18th will be at another venue that will be announced shortly.
We have killer bands and wild top DJs coming to play from world wide. The space can fit up to 1000 people with lots of room for a wild and crazy dance party!
This will be the first rockabilly, rock and roll weekender ever in NYC. You don’t want to miss it!
We can’t wait for next summer!! Let’s dance!!
AND OUR EVERY FIRST FRIDAY NIGHT OF MONTH @ WARSAW
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