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The Figs!
Folk / Grindcore / Ghettotech

old-fashioned, yet fashionable!



LAFAYETTE, Louisiana
United States

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Member Since7/2/2006
Band Websitewww.thefigsband.com
Band MembersCAROLINE HELM
Upright Bass, Vocals

SARAH GRAY
Electric Guitar, Vocals

JILLIAN JOHNSON
Tenor Ukulele, Vocals

CLAIRE OLIVER
Banjo, Vocals

MELISSA STEVENSON
Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

A PAIGE P
Drums, Harmonica, Vocals
Influencesbrother harmony groups, family bands, swing, western swing, rock n' roll, honky tonk, vocal groups, bluegrass, old time, ragtime, gypsy jazz, banjo blues...you get the idea...
Sounds LikeListen for yourself. . . We like all kinds of old music, and even some of the new stuff! Old Time Ballads, Blues, Hot Jazz, Country, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, Swing & Western Swing, Cajun...we like it all, though we really sound like none of it...ironic, no?


Record LabelUnknown Indie
Type of LabelIndie


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   About The Figs!



The Figs were born of hot July practices, conflicting musical interests, and a strong desire to wear dresses and uncomfortable shoes. But you don't have to take our word for it...


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"The Figs' new CD, "What Keeps Me Up At Night", is filled with antique twang, slowly plucked strings, and soothing harmonies, floating around a picturesque landscape of good and bad men, wary women, guns, love, boats, trains, buses, escape and a load of other cool things with function like a soundtrack to an imaginary film about women at the turn of the century...the music and songs never get tedious, continuously luring the listener further into the next procession of tracks like chapters in a hardbound book that you'd rather not end."

--- Dege Legg, THE INDEPENDENT | Lafayette, LA

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"The all-women sextet The Figs looks like a country-time tea party of pretty girls in pretty dresses, but it rocks, Cajun-style, like a roadhouse full of moonshine and buckshot."

--- Allison Fensterstock, GAMBIT WEEKLY | New Orleans, LA

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"In listening to their music, one is at first struck by the captivating three- and four-part harmonies as they adeptly tackle old-time country, folk, rockabilly and bluegrass songs, along with some original lyrics and musical arrangements thrown into the mix."

--- Kelli Moore, TIMES PICAYUNE | New Orleans, LA

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"The Figs, a six-piece outta Lafayette, Louisiana are a bit like what would happen if The Pipettes decided to wear flowery as opposed to polka-dotted dresses, traded in their keyboards for banjos and were just generally more Fig-like. The sassy sextet stomp their feet and bat their eyelashes as they hoot, holler and coo their own interpretations of Louisiana roots rock."

--- Alexis Swerdoff, PAPER MAGAZINE | New York, NY

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"I was really amazed by the level of talent of The Figs; they are able to easily replicate so many different sounds and yet they manage to retain their individuality. It is odd, yet compelling, how The Figs remind the listener of so many bands yet still not sound like anyone but themselves. "

--- Jesse White, THE CORNER NEWS | Auburn, AL

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"The Figs have taken a completely different tack by cutting their own path. The shows are filled with lovely harmonies and a sense of being delightfully out of phase with modernity."

--- Alex V. Cook, COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE | Baton Rouge, LA

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"On Cross that Bridge, they recorded one of the most haunting songs of the year."

--- Nick Pittman, OFFBEAT MAGAZINE New Orleans, LA

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"From blues to rockabilly to straight-up old-timey and haunting a capella, these ladies make the vintage stuff sound fresh and the new stuff sound retro."

--- Sharon Arms Doucet, AUTHOR | Lafayette, LA

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"With the girls decked out in modest dresses, each of The Figs' live shows acts as a throwback to equally modest times. It's all girls. It's dresses. It's rootsmusic laced with sugar-sweet harmonies."

--- Tim Landry, TIMES OF ACADIANA | Lafayette, LA

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"If there are three things in this world I like, it is women, banjos and ukuleles, and The Figs present all three with the charm of a county fair, their harmonies clear as a church bell."

--- Alex V. Cook, 225 MAGAZINE | Baton Rouge, LA

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"This Acadiana female sextet makes sweet music out of vintage mountain sounds. Ukulele, banjo and guitar are the instrumental underpinnings for the group's formidable vocal talents; it's members alternate lead and harmony vocals for an ever-changing tapestry of voices and textures."

--- THE INDEPENDENT | Lafayette, LA

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"In the great musical orchard of Acadiana, The Figs bloom on a tree scarcely plucked: vintage string mountain music. The members of the female sextet (decked out like city-going country ladies of the 1920s) each sing backing harmonies and switch up lead vocal duties. Between old time swing, country weeping and sassy takes on both traditional tunes and similaroriginals, the Figs take sounds like that of the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack and add their own grit and spit - a sweet yet strong concoction."

--- Nick Pittman, THE INDEPENDENT | Lafayette, LA

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"The Figs can be haunting, uplifting and shimmy-inducing all in the same evening."

--- Tim Landry, TIMES OF ACADIANA | Lafayette, LA


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Jun 24 2009 3:43 PM

Hope to see you at the Rockabilly show Friday, July 3rd at The HiHo Lounge in New Orleans!
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Jun 4 2009 11:28 PM

hey thanks for the add,
we thought you looked cool so we decided to add you.
check out our song that we have up!
and tell us what you think.
and give us an honest opinion.
or if you wanna just talk then comment back.
;D!

- DTF
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Jun 4 2009 8:03 PM

Hi,
wish you a wonderful day.
Best Regards from Germany
Aravapais (Nick)
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Jun 4 2009 3:34 AM

thanks for the add - love your sound - hope you're having a great week
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May 25 2009 8:01 PM

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May 23 2009 2:15 PM

Y'all are purtier in purson!

Gawd Bless, We had fun at the Blue Moon last night!!! Lovin' the CD!
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Stanton Moore:
Born and raised in New Orleans (and living there still, when he’s not on the road), Stanton Moore is very much a product of geography, culture and creative networking. He grew up in the thriving music scene of his hometown that included Professor Longhair, Doctor John, the Meters and countless other Big Easy mainstays.
In the early ‘90s, Moore hooked up with guitarist Jeff Raines, bassist Robert Mercurio and keyboardist Rich Vogel and saxophonist Ben Ellman to form the New Orleans-based “steam-roller” funk band known as Galactic. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in music and business from Loyola University, Moore and the band made their first record (the widely acclaimed Coolin’ Off) and hit the road to do nearly 200 gigs a year for the first ten years of Galactic’s existence. The band has since released five more albums since Coolin’ Off, and continues to amass a worldwide audience via recording and touring globally.

Aided by eight-string guitar virtuoso Charlie Hunter and saxophonist Skerik (Les Claypool, John Scofield, Roger Waters), Moore launched his solo career in the late ‘90s with the All Kooked Out!, an album recorded in New Orleans just after Mardi Gras in 1998 and released later that year.. In addition to the Moore-Hunter-Skerik core, All Kooked Out! also featured a handful of New Orleans horn players, including Brent Rose, Brian Seeger, Matt Perrine, Ben Ellman, and former Sun Ra trumpeter Michael Ray. Moore
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Apr 21 2009 2:57 AM

How was Standard Deluxe? I wish i coulda been there!! wow, what a line up!
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Apr 20 2009 6:39 PM

You ladies rock! I enjoyed the show soo much this past friday in Hattiesburg.
Hope to see ya'll soon!
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Apr 8 2009 1:37 AM

Hey! Come celebrate Spring Break/Easter with us this Thursday at Artmosphere and hear our new stuff! Love, F3
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Mar 19 2009 2:47 AM

Can't wait to see you Friday! :-)
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Mar 18 2009 9:20 PM




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Mar 18 2009 12:55 PM

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Mar 12 2009 8:47 PM

THANKS FOR THE ADD
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Mar 9 2009 7:23 AM

LOVE YOUR WORK!!!
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Mar 7 2009 8:17 AM

Enjoyed your tracks a lot! Fine playing, lovely voices!

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Mar 6 2009 5:07 PM

Un chaleureux merci ! Très touché par ce geste d'amitié ;)


Cordialement,
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