The Bourbonites don't look for a niche or offer smoke-and-mirrors definitions: They play rock and think country. Or vice versa; the formula gets inverted, but the ingredients stay the same. If there's any alt left in alt-country (whatever that means), it's getting pretty blurred by now, but the Bourbonites aren't trying to be an alternative to anything; they just want to burn down the stage and get someone to pick up their bar tab. Vocalist and songwriter Calvin Todd Stephens rolls up years of experience in punk and garage bands, and ties it to a songwriting sensibility that runs from Television and Elvis Costello to the Allman Brothers, the Burrito Brothers, the Louvin Brothers, the Everly Brothers...pretty much anybody's brother. The common ground isn't tied to genre, but rather to a love of good songwriting, shoot-from-the-hip musicianship, and the real roots of American music.
Hola Todd, great to hear from you and what you are working on... some tight ass well crafted song writing and virtuoso playing as you have always delivered. F'eeng great... I hope to catch up with you in September... Keep up the great works my brother. Best to you and yours, Steve
Hey Bourbonites - We're having our CD Release show for “Marveling the While,” this Saturday, 4/5 at The Tractor. We’d love it if you could come. Please note it’s an early show starting at 6pm. Hope to see you there...Joy and The Starlings
so...I was driving along, rocking out to the Bourbonites and thought, what the hell...where's Todd been? Then I realized, oh yeah, that's right I moved to Arlington, and he's all the way in Seattle. Then I was all, "yeah, but I was just in Seattle to see Chuckanut Drive, Drunken Prayer, and Sid n' Fancy, I should have called him" and then I realized I didn't have your number.
Hey Todd, Wishin' you a rockin' Gobble-Gobble Day! I found pics of Thanksgiving around '02? Good Times! They'll be up on my pics soon. Peace Man! Angie
