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PawnShop kings

watch the "brother's keeper" trailer below!!!!

About Me


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BIO:
Driven by formative, familial experiences on their Arkansas plantation, born in Texas, and raised on the beach in southern California, PawnShop kings play the music of the American South with equal parts rock, gospel, country and pop. Their inspiration comes greatly from the melodic sensibility and purpose of the Staple Singers and Bob Marley atop the brilliant musical expanse of the Beatles. An early exposure to Southern black churches during their childhood fostered a deeper lyrical significance.
“We write the music we like,” from Scott, “and, you know, if we’re lucky other people get it. Our songs come from the context of the people we love, the things we love and hate, and the experience that comes from all of it.”
“Yeah, and we don’t sing about getting drunk and laid – so we probably won’t relate to the fan looking for that sort of immediacy,” added Joel. “I'd like to think the music we’re playing has a longer shelf life than that. I say our sound reflects back to the roots of American music but adds a more contemporary edge that those particular early styles lacked to my child ears.”
Clearly, PawnShop kings’ musical identity defies easy description – and not only because of the amalgamation of styles. The lowercase “k” in the band’s name suggests a church-borne intentionality that keeps the brothers as friends and from straying too far from faith and family.
“We love that pawn shops give people a second chance whether or not they use it,” remarks Scott. “Our music, and the ability to build upon the gospel roots of our childhood, plays as our voice to that spirit of reinvention.”
PawnShop kings’ debut album, “Locksley,” is now available online and at live performances. Click the Pawn Shop store above for the CD or head to iTunes for the digital download. To contact: [email protected].
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Member Since: 3/3/2005
Band Website: you're looking at it. this link won't go anywhere
Band Members: HERE'S THE TRAILER FROM OUR NEW MOVIE, "brother's keeper." ENJOY:

CHECK OUT OUR SWAG FOR SALE...IN THE NEW PAWNSHOP!!!

HERE'S FOR OUR UPDATE LIST FORM, SO YOU CAN GET INFO DIRECTLY FROM US ABOUT WHEN/WHERE WE ARE PLAYING, AND ALL OTHER PERTINENT INFO. YOUR INFO WILL GO only only only TO US FOR OUR EMAIL NEWSLETTER (from [email protected]);

HOWEVER, WHEN YOU FILL THIS OUT, YOU'LL GET A BIG OL' MYSPACE WARNING THAT MAYBE SOMEONE (and they're implying that it's us) IS TRYING TO STEAL YOUR LIFE'S IDENTITY. PLEASE DON'T WORRY, IT'S MYSPACE'S WAY OF PROTECTING THEMSELVES. YOUR EMAIL WILL JUST GO INTO OUR DATABASE FOR THE UPDATES. THANKS AND FEAR NOT...PSk
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THANKS CHRISTINA FOR YOUR VIDEO:

A TUNE FROM THE RECORD RELEASE SHOW AT THE ROXY. THANKS THOMAS SCOTT STANTON & JESSE HOFFMAN FOR CAPTURING THIS MOMENT:

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scott and joel tour primarily together with a gibson 335 and acoustic Advanced Jumbo. they keep the overhead low and the energy high with stage stomping, hand clapping, voices chimbing and guitars parting...
Influences: our influences are more vast as some may be willing to admit. no single mode/genre/artist/key/emotion/cartoon has dominated our lives at every breath. the Beatles head the list, and Bob Marley, the Staples Singers, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wagner, Bob Dylan, Dubussy, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, U2, the Stones, Groove Armada, country music from the early, just past the roots of it all era like the Oak Ridge Boys-Alabama-Crystal Gayle days that our dad mercilessly played for us each time we rode in his car making inevitable their influence whether positively or not, etc., all held sway on one or both of us over the years.

The world of music arrived for us in the ’80s when Wham was big and Run-DMC rapped about their kicks. They have, all of the above and more, imbued our writing with their vibrant color.

Nevertheless, the influence of new art and music, whether actually new or new to us, compounds on a weekly, often daily, basis.
Sounds Like: two brothers singing over piano/guitars/organs/vibes/concert bells/horns/drums/bass
Record Label: It's Ours Now
Type of Label: None

My Blog

why i Love to drive with dr. laura

if you haven't listened some time between 12pm-3pm m-f, then you are losing. if so, then you will understand this beautifuly reality:A. 95% of her callers (and that may even be generous) call in to ...
Posted by PawnShop kings on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:32:00 PST

from london to aberdeen

some further happenings/memories/observations following our first show in london...8) it's somehow much easier to rise on no sleep in a foreign country when you've a train to catch, and that refreshin...
Posted by PawnShop kings on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:53:00 PST

'Locksley Tours' -- the beginning

as a lit. major, i have the propensity to feel the need to write a TON (and some would say speak equally as much) when i sit to detail anything with prose.  i suppose it's what saves me in verse....
Posted by PawnShop kings on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:18:00 PST

so very close now

to keep with the theme ive already begun here, i'll say that it looks as if im not only feeling very close to blog worthy but the time might be there as well. we've got our record release show this s...
Posted by PawnShop kings on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:31:00 PST

time

i'd like to start a blog here, but i'm not certain there's time
Posted by PawnShop kings on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:40:00 PST