Jeffrey Falla: banjo, guitar, and vocals.
Hilary Johnson: bass violin, electric bass, piano, accordian, and vocals.
Chris Krapohl: drums and electric bass.
OCCASIONAL MUSICIANS: Matt Falla: guitar and backing vocals. Jeremy Swisher: drums, trumpet, and backing vocals.
Influences
The Minutemen, Roger Miller, Deleuze & Guattari, Mr. Rogers, anyone with a banjo, bass, or drums...
Sounds Like
That brief moment of clarity when buffalo stampede in the middle of the badlands just after your tent is washed away in a sudden thunderstorm and lightning strikes the blade of your knife as you raise it to the sky to curse your creator.
While The Godevils describe their music as alt-western-punk-funk-folk with margins defined by the merging of cowboy, punk, hillbilly, and funk, drummer Jeremy Swisher simply calls it P-Folk: "P-Folk is Power, Political, Punk, Ph.D., Pirate,..."
So what is P-Folk? It’s songs about dying prospectors, vampire cowboys, people with lives ruined by current social maladies, skeletons, murderously disgruntled oil riggers, stinky river banks, and the semiotic inadequacy of human expression.
It’s reflected in a statement by the Duluth Reader Weekly: “Everything is drunken, bleak, and bizarre, yet the music is powerfully energetic. The Godevils are a gold vein in them thar hills.”
Just to let you know, LOUDRAY is still holding church on Thursdays.
We've been holding it down there for 10 months and as our 1 year
anniversary of this residency approaches we are stepping up the
revival. For the past 8 months we've been joined by some of the finest
musicians in town (Martin Devaney, Ric Lee, Glenn Hanson, Dave Babb,
Jake Hyer, Kurt Froelich, Meg Ashling, Jen Markey, Mother Banjo, Eliza
Blue, Pete Bauer, just to name a few) but for the next 2 months, it's
just going to be the classic LOUDRAY duo of Jon Stowell and Colin
Anderson. We will be digging deep into the back catalog of songs and
bringing some new light through these old windows.
We have been doing these shows in the classic "unamplified" style as of late and look to continue that trend.
So, stop in for some fellowship and true acoustic music, and wash away the week with sweet, redeeming booze.
$2.75 select taps from 5-7pm!!! Plenty of parking!!
Come on, isn't it time to slum it at the Dub!!
LOUDRAY
EVERY THURSDAY
5:30-9pm
Dubliner Pub
2162 University Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55114
