| Member Since | 8/29/2006 | | Band Members | Clif Ervin; Once he was "The Ambassador of the Bones", playin' dem "Bones. Clif is with the Lord in Heaven now and in our hearts always.....
David Clay; Harmonicas, Vocals and Whimsey.....
Geoff Smith; Jug, Comb, Jew's Harp, Banjo, Ukelele, Washtub Bass, Washboard, Vocals and Maniacal Laughter.....
Ron Averill; Cigar Box Guitar, National Steel Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Vocals and other forgotten stringed instruments of note..... | | Influences | Cannon's Jug Stompers, The Memphis Jug Band, Tampa Red, Yank Rachel, King David's Jug Band, Milton Brown & Bob Dunn, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, John Sebastion, Charlie Parker, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Michael Hurley, The Holy Modal Rounders, The Jazz, Blues and Hokum of the 1920s and 30s, Pentangle, the Incredible String Band, Charlie Musselwhite, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Skip James, The Kitchen Syncopators, Gillian Welch, The Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Long nights and short rides in open boxcars across endless rolling horizon, Brother Robert Burns, Pam and Leon, $30 and the Greyhound bus ticket that got me on the road that led to Kathmandu from Amsterdam, John Patric, "A Yankee Hobo in the Orient", from Snohomish, Washington, the Baisden Tribe, the "Broken Arrow Hotel" in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Insomnia and endless late nights playing solo to the echoes of empty P.O. Boxes at the old Snohomish Post Office, R. Crumb, Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural,Flakey Foont and Ruby the Dyke, mostly Marvel and not DC Comics, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, R.E. Howard, Vondel Park and those kinky painted ladies of the night dancing behind tall glass windows on narrow streets behind Centraal Station in Amsterdam............. | | Sounds Like | Hokum Blues | | Type of Label | Major |
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