For UK or Europe booking info: www.myspace.com/owlsword
Cory: Banjo, Guitar, Vocals
Over the years Cory has studied classical piano and jazz guitar, played sax in a big band and synthesizers in a punk band, and still would rather be found hunkered down in the corner playing banjo-fiddle duets at a noisy pickin' party than anywhere else. When he's not playing tunes he brews kombucha, rides his bike, and thinks about marrying Josh or Walter for Canadian citizenship.
Josh Rabie: Fiddle, Guitar, Banjo, Vocals
Josh has had a deep-rooted passion for music that began in early childhood and over the last ten years has evolved into a love for Old-Time and Bluegrass music. His musical influences include everyone from The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe to The Velvet Underground, Skip James, Django Reinhardt, Elliott Smith, and Hank Williams. He enjoys listening to music that has soul and a keen sense of the blues.
Josh toured in Germany, Canada, and the U.S. with The Crooked Jades during the Summer of 2007
Kenny: Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
Kenny Feinstein is currently pursuing a degree in Jazz guitar performance at the University of Oregon. Although his main focus is guitar, he is skilled at playing banjo, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica and piano. When he is not practicing or playing music, he enjoys exploring the foggy forests both near and far while sipping kombucha kocktails and climbing trees to read up on mycology and the most recent copy of his favorite magazine, Shaman's Drum.
Walter Spencer: Bass, Vocals
Walter is an old punk rocker at heart. It doesn't take long to hear that raging energy come through in his playing, and he never misses an opportunity to out-party the rest of the band. He lives in LA, writes great songs, and plays with Water Tower whenever he can.
Guest Appearances on "Rocky Top" and "Edna Mae"
Pete Leone-Vox (Bass on "Edna Mae)
Caleb Klauder- Mandolin/vox
Influences
Jimmy Martin, My Bloody Valentine, Tommy, Kitty Wells, Elliott Smith, Ginny Hawker and Tracy Shwarz, Pete Krebs, Foghorn, Trane, Gallus Brothers, Stars of the Lid, Tallboys,
"It sounds like a bluegrass/old-time fusion mit cajones. Bluegrass music anymore tends to be massively over-produced, slicker than an Escalade's paint job, excruciatingly boring, exponentially irrelevant, and O so square, so painfully white. But what I heard from Water
Tower definitely rocks. Its not the kind of navel-gazing fusion-diluted silliness you get from bands, its more like the rolling energy of Jackstraw only with a real old-time rooted integrity. Those children will go far. Already have." -Bill Martin legendary dance caller www.bubbaguitar.com
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the Water Tower Bucket Boys perform their hard-driving, soul-saturated traditional and original music with tight vocal harmonies and powerful instrumentals. The energy from their lightning stage performances will literally plow through you as you are transcended to another place and time. The Water Tower Bucket Boys got their start busking on the street corners of Portland and enlivening local square dances. Honing their sound as a solid dance band, playing up and down the west coast, as well as in the east, the boys have perfected their unique style, drawing from classic bluegrass, old-time, and country songs. Their original repertoire, heavily influenced by blues and country, distinguishes them from other string bands. This one-of-a-kind sound has been influenced and shaped by almost every genre of American music. Just like the traditional songs, their originals works will take you on an entertaining roller-coaster of emotions, while still maintaining that “high-lonesome” integrity. Whether busking on the streets of downtown Portland or traveling around the world, their infectious love of the music spreads far and wide.
.. Can't make it to your CD release do, on account of familial restrictions, lack of airfare and being an only-just-scraping-average swimmer. Bugger. < Will I be able to buy it online anyways and just have a wee party of my own at home??...
I just released a new CD; check out the tunes on my page and let me know what you think! Bummed I'll miss your show in ROC!!! Hope it goes great. I'm on my way to Australia as we speak...
Got Dr Bronners on the new Gilded Palace show. Feels like an anthem already (the song, not the show!). Brighton's still recovering. Find your bagpipes yet?
Lucero - The Devil And Maggie Chascarillo (Liberty & Lament) The Takers - St Johns Son (Suburban Home) Austin Lucas & The Takers - Sweeter Than The Flowers (Suburban Home) Magnolia Electric Co - Song For Willie (Secretly Canadian) Joe Pernice - Tell Me When It’s Over (Ashmont Records) Mark Mulcahy - Micon The Icon (Loose) Franz Nicolay - Dead Sailors (Décor) Paul Burch - Please Send For Me (Ramseur Records) Jeff And Vida - Boxcar Blues (Hello Sunshine) (Rosebank Records) Water Tower Bucket Boys - Dr Bronner’s Magic Soap (www.watertowerbucketboys.com) Case Hardin - Cold And Old (Ugly Nephew) Daddy - Wash And Fold (Cedar Creek) Deadstring Brothers - Can’t Make It Through The Night (Bloodshot Records) Otis Gibbs - Aint Nothin Special (Wanamaker Recording Co)
Hey guys, I caught you on the sunny streets of Brighton - was very much hoping to come to one of your following gigs but unfortunately I had missed all the ones it was possible for me to get to without a car! I hope you had a great time over here and you come back soon so that I get a second chance!
Your visit to the Gilded Palace radio show can now be heard online at Totally Radio. Hit ‘Listen’ and the show should stream on-demand. Four new tracks from WTTB and a few of your friends to round out the hour. It was an honour to have you in town! The show will be online until Friday 21st August. Here's the playlist... Water Tower Bucket Boys - Crooked Road (live in studio) (www.watertowerbucketboys.com) Pig Iron - Dark And Empty (unknown) Red Stick Ramblers - Made In The Shade (Sugar Hill) Water Tower Bucket Boys - Goat Heads (live in studio) (www.watertowerbucketboys.com) Barb Hansen - Golden Rod Waltz (www.myspace.com/fiddler5000) Southern Tenant Folk Union - Changeling Child (Ugly Nephew) Water Tower Bucket Boys - Tequila And Lime (live in studio) (www.watertowerbucketboys.com) Hackensaw Boys - Buildings Are The Cages (Nettwerk) Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers - Goodbye Booze (VHF/Klang Industries) Levon Helm - Golden Bird (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard) Ralph Stanley - Shout Little Loulie (Rebel Records) Headwater - Come And See Me (Northern Town) Water Tower Bucket Boys - Let’s Dance (live in studio) (www.watertowerbucketboys.com)
Hi guys Hope the gig at The Duke went well. Your shed session is now online including the Old Rascal ad! Thanks again a great time was had by all. www.songsfromtheshed.com
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