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Sufferin' Succotash
Country / Blues / Folk

"Old-Time Country, Early Blues & Cajun/Black Creole"

BROOKLYN, New York
United States

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Last Login:  7/17/2008
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   Sufferin' Succotash: General Info
Member Since1/26/2006
Band Websitesufferinsuccotash.org/default.asp
Band Members



SHLOMO PESTCOE (vocals, fiddle, button accordion, mandolin, banjo, guitar, & more)

PETER "TRIP" HENDERSON (harmonica, tenor ukulele)

BOB "DR. FRETS" JONES (vocals, guitar, banjo, bass)

PETER STUART KOHMAN (vocals, guitar, banjo-ukulele, mandolin, bass and more)

PETER FORD (vocals, single-string 'Box Bass', guitar)

Type of LabelNone





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Aug 15 2008 10:00P
Two Boots Brooklyn Brooklyn, New York

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   About Sufferin' Succotash

Peter Kohman, Trip Henderson, Bob Jones, & Shlomo Pestcoe backstage between sets.
Performing at The Two Boots Brooklyn Tent, The 7th Heaven Street Festival.
Park Slope, Brooklyn, 6/18/06
(Photo by W. Weinstein)


"Like a cool breeze after a muggy rain storm, Sufferin' Succotash will be blowing through your ears. Rich and deep like really expensive scotch, many flavored in the ways of traditional music."

--Dock Oscar, producer, The Kings County Opry, Brooklyn's own monthly concert series presenting "The best of Bluegrass, Oldtime and Good 'Ol Country music!"



Sufferin' Succotash offers a rich flavorful gumbo of old-time country breakdowns and heart songs; down-home blues, rags and hokum favorites; and Louisiana Cajun and Black Creole "Bal d'Maison" dance tunes.

Our repertoire comes mostly from scratchy 78 rpm records from the 1920s and '30s-- "The Golden Age of American Vernacular Music"-- as well as field recordings of folk tradition-bearers. Our sources range from such old-time country performers as Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers and Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers to blues string and jug bands like The Mississippi Sheiks and Gus Cannon & His Jug Stompers from early Louisiana French recording artists such as Black Creole accordionist Amedé Ardoin and the Cajun fiddle and accordion duo of Leo Soileau & Mayuse Lafleur to rural tradition-bearers like Appalachian fiddler/ banjoist Tommy Jarrell and African American fiddler Butch Cage.

True to the spirit and tradition of our sources, we perform these musical gems of a bygone era with all the fiery vitality of a sweaty Saturday night house party on the fiddle, harmonica, button accordion, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and other traditional acoustic instruments. As a modern-day band in the Big Apple, Sufferin' Succotash's unique renditions of these classic music forms feature hot, tasty licks with a rockin' "downtown" backbeat, like the pulsating rhythm of the subways rumbling beneath the City's streets.




Peter Ford & his 'Box Bass'




SUFFERIN' SUCCOTASH'S MP3 PLAYLIST


1) CARROLL COUNTY BLUES: Shlomo Pestcoe, fiddle; Trip Henderson, harmonica; Peter Stuart Kohman, National resophonic guitar; Bob Jones, bass.

A classic old-time fiddle tune learned from a 78 rpm recording on the Okeh label, recorded in the late 1920s by the fiddle and guitar duo of W.T. Narmour & S.W. Smith of Carroll County, Mississippi.


2) BLUE RAILROAD TRAIN: Bob Jones, vocals, Gibson J-45 "banner headstock" guitar; Trip Henderson, harmonica; Shlomo Pestcoe, bottleneck slide guitar; Peter Stuart Kohman, bass.

An early country classic learned from the playing of The Delmore Brothers.


3) THE RIVER BLUES: Peter Stuart Kohman, vocals, Gibson L-5 guitar; Trip Henderson, harmonica; Shlomo Pestcoe, Gibson "A" snakehead mandolin; Bob Jones, bass.

Peter learned this obscure 1920s pop song from an even obscurer period 78 rpm record.


4) JELLY ROLL BLUES: Shlomo Pestcoe, vocals, National resophonic guitar; Trip Henderson, harmonica; Peter Stuart Kohman, Gibson "A" snakehead mandolin; Bob Jones, bass.

Our version of a "hokum" favorite from 1920s and '30s done in the style of the various African American string bands of the period.


5) CHERE MOM (HEY MOM, WHERE YOU AT): Shlomo Pestcoe, button accordion; Trip Henderson, harmonica; Peter Stuart Kohman, National resophonic guitar; Bob Jones, bass.

There's a sad story behind this peppy tune. The Cajun fiddle and accordion duo of Leo Soileau & Mayuse Lafleur originally recorded it on October 18th, 1928. Nine days later, Mayeuse was dead, an innocent bystander gunned down in a shootout in a speakeasy. The kicker is that Mayeuse, who was abandoned by his mother when he was but a baby, was planning to use the few bucks he made from the recording to look for his mom.

Sufferin' Succotash's instrumental version of this song was inspired by the playing of the Black Creole fiddle and accordion duo, The Carriere Brothers.


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Joe





Jun 12 2008 2:44 PM

Thank u for adding me 2 u freind list
Hogzilla





Apr 12 2008 8:29 AM

I love all you guys! Can't wait to see you out and about!

-Hil
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Mar 26 2008 1:51 PM

Hi


Greetings from Bergen, Norway.
Arve
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Mar 13 2008 9:32 PM


ALOHA!!
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Mar 14 2008 7:22 AM

Thanks for the add and for helping to keep the old tunes going...Red Fox with Jill Newton by Laurie Indenbaum
Jim Houston





Dec 31 2007 7:33 AM

Thanks for letting me board your cyber-train "Sufferin' Succotash" - very nice turns taken on some great tunes. All best to you as one year blends into the next. I will be in NY next summer and will check your gig list.

All best from the front porch, whiskey-soaked, resophonic, demented banjo, left coast of Canada.
Copper Rose





Dec 28 2007 3:20 PM

Thanks so much for the add! It's great that you blend blues and Cajun sounds - we're trying to do that as well. Johnny came back from the Dewey Balfa Heritage Festival last year with a brand new Cajun accordion and we're working hard on infusing some Cajun sounds into our new original tunes. The first one will be up after the new year. We're all going down to the camp as a band next spring. Johnny will be studying your "Chere Mom" as will I - I got harmonicas for Christmas and plan to branch out from bass and lapsteel. My daughter lives right near Two Boots and we've enjoyed their food a number of times. It's great to be friends with Cajun musicians from our neck of the woods. We hope to learn much from you and value your friendship. Stop by and take a listen if you get a chance.

Cheers,
Maggie and the Boys
Jesper Deleuran





Dec 28 2007 2:57 PM

Hey y'all. Thanks for add. I'm happy to see you here among my friends in my little private place in space.
You are all great to listen to, both here and in your other space profiles.
I can't get enough of quality music!!

Jesper
"Old time music and cartoons"
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Oct 31 2007 11:34 PM


Hello from Japan,
Thank you!!
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Dec 16 2007 2:20 PM

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~SIRGEOFFREY~
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Dec 24 2007 9:57 AM

Here's wishing you Love, peace and joy through this holiday season, and in the coming year all God's blessings and prosperity.


THE SECOND FIDDLES





Sep 29 2007 7:02 PM

Big Hungry Joe





Aug 7 2007 2:23 AM

Hey Guys.

Thanks for the add. We allready have the great musicians Trip and Shlomo among our friends, but great to hear you all in this context too.

Jesper
Big Hungry Joe
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May 25 2007 1:14 PM

WOW, we are really feeling the love! in the words of our friend uncle mint : "the book inside the book is the one that can never be bought or sold, but one may borrow it for a while". thanks for the vibes. maybe that summer 40 years ago those kids were on to something...thanks -the new snot nosed bastids
Linda





Apr 20 2007 1:53 PM

Hey guys, thanks for adding me! Your site brought me back to an old friend (Frank Fotusky) who shared a bill with you. Check out my blogs if you want to read about euthanasia, high school, gardening or being single at 49... I also have a few poems & short stories on there.
I hope to get up that way to hear you in person sometime. The sound is great!
Linda (Trip's friend from Augusta in Elkins, WV)
Sidestreet Reny





Mar 8 2007 5:56 PM

Thanx for the friend request and the interest in our music... If y'all get a chance, and so feel inclined to do so, pass it to someone else deserving. Holler... at the sky.








- peace fo'real, Sidestreet reny

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Feb 7 2007 1:42 PM

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The late jug master (1939-2005) plays some of the spookiest tones ever on the previously unreleased "Visiting Day." Recorded by the Jailhouse Jug Band, the tune is currently spotlighted on the Jug Bandolier player.
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Feb 1 2007 1:47 PM

Greetings from your pal, Maxwell DeMille!
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Jan 28 2007 3:43 AM


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More jug bands than ever!!!
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Jan 14 2007 5:08 AM

". . . certainly was a treat to me!"

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Keep the faith. Lots of new pix and a burgeoning mob of jugsters. We need you. Stop by, show your colors, and get pinned.
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Jan 1 2007 11:30 AM

Happy New Year and a wish for Peace from Forró For All....Feliz Ano Novo!
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Dec 30 2006 9:49 AM

Hey Sufferin' Succotash,

All I wanted for christmas was a rock 'n' roll 'lectric guitar ...

but they gave me a brandnew website ...

check www.rhythmbomb.com for the new design ...

hope this link works now ...

feel free to leave me a comment what was your favourite gift this year ...

cheers

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Dec 29 2006 4:33 PM


Get some foxy layouts!
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Wake up Lincoln!

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