Sarah Scott & DW Coggins .............
Liiiive aaahhn stage we have: Mr. Ben Thomas on Bass. Mr. Vaughn Stirrup on drums ...
We were honoured for our album to feature such good friends as the legendary Mr Jon Kennedy (Grand Central),Jamie Wright (Sideshow Freak)and Adrian Woodland (Mooch/The Bunker)on batterie.A smattering of Bernard Moss (Aim/Mr Scruff) on flute and saxophone,dollops of the Pimp Ryan Savage (piano/percussion) Mick Wigfall (who's played double bass for Scotty Moore for God's sake) and Davy Sugarbeet (whose fiddle we sampled) topped off with une tranche de Leon De Bretagne (Ty/AM60) adding a couple a bass-guitar parts from back in the day
Influences
Nina Simone, BB King, Eryka Badu, G Love and Special Sauce, Gomez, Pimp, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Withers, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Aretha Franklin,Otis Redding,Etta James,Beck, Jill Scott, The Roots, Beastie Boys,Stax,Chess, Money Mark, James Brown, De La Soul, People Under The Stairs, Jimmy Cliff,Gram Parsons,Paul Burch,Dr John,Rolling Stones,Lee Perry,Bobby Womack,Hank Williams,Elmore James,Chaka Khan,T-Bone Walker,Pixies,Lightnin Hopkins,Tom Waits,The Clash, Zero 7, Cinematic Orchestra, Billie Holliday, Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Gil Scott Heron, DJ Shadow, Mos Def, Betty Davis, Ann Sexton,safc, Candi Staton, Neil Young,The Meters,Gladys Knight,The Pentangle,A Tribe Called Quest,Mose Allison,Captain Beefheart,Sarah Vaughan,JLL,Tony Joe White,Roberta Flack,Woody Guthrie
BS3 ...
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Sweet Laredo are: Sarah J. Scott and Dan W. Coggins
They met in London where Bristolian Sarah had gone to learn things and multi-instrumentalist Dan was on a foray down from the Durham hills.
Finding a shared love of soul,jazz,blues and hip-hop they began to collaborate on smoked-out,beats-driven tunes. These were then stripped back to be played only on a battered old spanish guitar giving full reign to Sarah's incredible voice which veers wildly between the gutsy blues moan of Etta James and the smoked-out rasps of Eryka Badu.
After playing their first gig at London's Jazz Cafe they developed their tunes with gigs as a duo around Britain and Europe.
And so began experimental recording sessions in Dan's bedroom and down-time at legendary North London studio Sweet Georgia Brown's.
Grabbing top players from varying musical backgrounds to add extra seasoning,a lo-fi country-soul record was conceived.
After further drum sessions at The Sunderland Bunker in North-East England,it was decided to infuse the stew with the many flavours of this green and pleasant land...
Thus,the double-bass and 30gb hard-disk were strapped to an old VW and slowly dragged to a large vicarage in a small Cornish fishing village where the sunny winter beaches were to add the final uplifting ingredient to Views From The Manse.
At gigs you may see them free-styling with double bass, piano, flutes, sax, a full band or just a guitar and a voice. Sweet Laredo's vibe has always been to fuse different styles and collaborate with as many quality musicians as they can lay their grubby hands on. Recent projects include an album collaboration and live European tour with Grand Central Records, Jon Kennedy and 12"single 'The Notion' with Flevans of Brighton label Tru-Thoughts, home of Quantic and Alice Russell (the track is also available on Tru-Thoughts Shapes Red compilation album and Electric Soul Volume 3)
The band's beautifully-crafted eponymous debut album (2003) was self-financed and was received with great acclaim and gained a host of positive reviews. Their second album Views from the Manse (Belleville Records - 2005) is allegedly available now on general release in Europe and Canada.But if you can find a copy you're a better man than me
........The next album is currently being recorded in sunny Bristol........
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Good morning, i wanted to let you know that i'm playing tonight in a little village called Pensford. It is just outside Bristol, so i thought i would mention it.
I hope you can make it.
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Tommy Allsup
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Good evening! I'll be starting a tour in the UK next week, and wanted to let you know.
You may have heard my guitar playing and not even realized it was me. I played with Buddy Holly, and when you listen to "It's So Easy" or "Heartbeat"...well, that is me.
We will play some of the Buddy Holly songs that i played on so many years ago, and a few more! I might even sing a couple.
I hope you can make one of the dates?
Best,
Tommy Allsup
Hey lovelies...I moved your interview to next weeks show cos I had a double bill from my Flamenco Jazzers! :) Hope that's cool...See you's soon Soph xxx
LOVE the photo...happy memories before the Bad Courvoisier - i do believe you put me to bed..? :) Really loved having you both up, here's to the next one. Got a live tape for you too.. Love. Mx
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afternoon/. thanks for the msg. seen yr name on posters for time, but it's the first time i've heard any tunes. love the recording ethic and well crafted songs. sure we'll catch up soon - come do a show at the Golden Lion on my wednesday night residency sometime... much love Typeski []^0
