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The short version: Colonel Slim & the Happy Honkies play a blend of old-time country and honky tonk, with an occasional rockabilly flavor thrown in for kicks. Sets might include tunes by Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Hank Snow, Buck Owens, George Jones, Merle Haggard, or Johnny Horton, to name just a few, as well as many great off-the-radar tunes in addition to a constantly growing list of original songs. We play a raw, energetic dose of soulful music presented with heart that will make you want to dance, or at the very least, will guarantee to get your toes tapping. We play most every Wednesday night at The Swing Station in Laporte, Colorado. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ The longer version: To describe the Happy Honkies ya gotta take in the big picture of the personalities involved, and here it is: Colonel Slim & the Happy Honkies are shednecks. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------ What's a shedneck? Being a shedneck starts with a heart that beats to the rhythm of old time music, whether old country (ya know, like REAL country) or honky tonk or bluegrass or rockabilly. Being a shedneck, secondly, means liking to hang out in an old shed (of course) with equal parts scratchy old vinyl LPs, wood smoke from the cast iron stove, a fair dose of Early Times bourbon, cheap beer with a lime, and a whole bunch of great old tunes that gotta be kept alive. If you stir all that up, let it simmer for a long winter, you end up with some bonafide shednecks in the form of Colonel Slim and company. Regardless of professional experience or lack there of, and both extremes exist in our outfit, we shednecks feed off the knowledge that we are all on the same, old, dusty page with one another when it comes to the music we love. And that, friends, is what a shedneck is. And that's the spirit of the Happy Honkies. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ These days, though, the shed is mostly empty and all the instruments reside at thebarand there's a fancy stage and all this high falutin' equipment and amps and monitors and sound boards and all that. So, it's a little bit more slick than it was back during the early days in the shed, but just a little bit. It's still raw, edgy, and real. The huge list of musical contributors in the form of Happy Honkies and Honorary Honkies that you can read about over there to the left is testimony to the fact that the shed spirit still drives the Colonel & Slim and all the permanent and guest Honkies alike. So if you think you might have that shedneck calling in ya, if you love old time music, or just enjoy any music as long as it's put forth with spirit, then come on in and join us. ____________________________________________________________ CricketSoda Myspace Editor

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Member Since: 8/10/2006
Band Website: swingstationusa.com
Band Members: BAND LEADERS & NAMESAKES- - - - - - - - - - - - _________________________ "Colonel" Bradford Lee Folk, electric guitar & vocals (formerly with [fw] Open Road , Lee Bradford Trio) _________________________ Aaron "Slim" Youngberg, pedal steel, (fw Hit & Run , 4-H Royalty , The Billy Pilgrims ) _________________________ Blake "Cousin Happy" Humphrey, acoustic & electric guitar & vocals _________________________ Paul "Honky Tonk" Burnett, acoustic guitar & vocals _________________________ _________________________ * And the HAPPY HONKIES * _________________________ Erin Youngberg, standup bass & vocals (fw Hit & Run , fw Uncle Earl , The Billy Pilgrims ) _________________________ John D. Kennedy, drums (Lee Bradford Trio) _________________________ Kristy "Judge K" Burnett, piano, electric bass, vocals _________________________ Rich Carlsen, standup & electric bass ( Pearl Button Ramblers ) _________________________ Rodney James, electric guitar & vocals ( Rodney James & the Blue Flames , Lee Bradford Trio) _________________________ Zach Boddicker, electric guitar & vocals (fw Malibu Hillbillies, fw Drag the River , 4-H Royalty , The Railbenders ) _________________________ Clover, pedal steel _________________________ Jerry Cavallero, harmonica, accordion, vocals, & cajun voodoo guru _________________________ John "Billy Bastard" Stewart, standup bass _________________________ _________________________ **and Some Wonderfully*** *******Appreciated******* *******HONORARY******* *****Drop-In HONKIES**** _________________________ Gene Libbea, standup bass & piano (Nashville Bluegrass Band) _________________________ John Magnie, piano ( Subdudes , 3 Twins) _________________________ Glenn Zankey, acoustic guitar & vocals ( Bluegrass Patriots ) _________________________ Eric Thorin, standup bass ( Open Road , Bug BeeBop, & others) _________________________ John Wade, bass ( James King ) _________________________ David Long , electric guitar (Long & Compton) _________________________ All the kids from Bearfoot Bluegrass _________________________ Coach Jeremy, acoustic git & vocals _________________________ Todd Livingston, dobro (fw Hit & Run , currently playing all over) _________________________ John Frazier, fiddle (mando w/ Hit & Run ) _________________________ David Richey, acoustic & electric git & vocals (fw Hit & Run , The Billy Pilgrims ) _________________________ Steve Roy, bass & electric git (bass w/ Hit & Run ) _________________________ Jeff Hamer, electric guitar & vocals ( Open Road & others) _________________________ Ron Lyman, if it has strings, he plays it, plus vocals ( Cowtown Boogie ) _________________________ Clark Wright, fiddle (fw High, Wide, & Handsome) _________________________ Tom Barbour, piano (electric guitar & vocals with The Handymen) _________________________ Johnny Mac, electric git & vocals (vocals, guitar, harmonica w/ King Wilkie ) _________________________ Ken Seaman, electric git & vocals (5-string w/ Bluegrass Patriots ) _________________________ Jeff Kazmierski, standup bass (vocals & standup w/ Acoustic Ranch Party )_________________________ Jesse Withers, electric git & bass (bass & vocals w/ Jackstraw )_________________________ Jessica Smith, electric bass (standup bass w/ Spring Creek Bluegrass Band ) _________________________ Shaun Young, vocals (acoustic & electric git w/ High Noon and The Thunderchiefs ) _________________________ Mike Wing, electric git & vocals ( Harvey Knuckles ) _________________________ Ben Prytherch, electric bass ( 4-H Royalty , Motorhome , The Little Darlings ) _________________________ Taylor Smith, electric git (flattop w/ Spring Creek Bluegrass Band ) _________________________ Bucky Bee Burnett , piano _________________________ Harry Crockett, fiddle (fiddle w/ Trucker's Daughter ) _________________________ Michele Crockett, vocals and flattop (vocals and flattop w/ Trucker's Daughter ) _________________________ Pam aka Virginia Quadalupe, vocals on those great Patsy tunes
Influences: Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Leon Rhodes & Buddy Charlton, Hank Thompson, Jimmy Martin, Jimmy Rogers, Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell, Buck Owens, Merle Travis, Chet, Opossum, Bill Monroe, Jerry Lee Lewis, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Ted Daffan, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Bob Wills, Jim & Jesse, Faron Young, Little Jimmy Dickens, Al Dexter, Onie Wheeler, Corb Lund, Ronnie Self, Cornell Hurd, Dale Watson, Sean Young, Deke Dickerson, Rodney James, the Blasters, plus so many others
Sounds Like: 1947 on steroids
Record Label: We try to avoid using labels
Type of Label: None

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