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About Me

This is a group-moderated site for an indie label that has additional pretensions to be a micro-publisher.
If you hear from us, it could be from Meghan Gohil or Matt Fuller in L.A., Lij in Nashville, John Minkoff in Chicago, Chris King in St. Louis or Joe Esser in New Jersey.
But whichever of us was driving the site when he contacted you or asked you to get friendly with Skuntry, trust that he spoke for The Skunk.

Skuntry was born when a bunch of bored graduate students in St. Louis formed a band for a reproductive rights benefit.

That band, Enormous Richard, bought the old blue van from Uncle Tupelo and hit the road, eventually reinventing itself as Eleanor Roosevelt.

When Eleanor Roosevelt ran out of gas, Skuntry persisted as a field recording project that took on the name Hoobellatoo, after a song by the first guy we recorded, the African elder Nymah Kumah.

As Hoobellatoo becomes a bona fide nonprofit arts organization, Skuntry survives as its publishing arm and record label.

Look for this story to be told in almost appalling detail in the blog on this page.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/09/2006
Band Website: www.skuntry.com
Band Members: Enormous Richard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Three Fried Men, Nymah Kumah, Pops Farrar, Leo Connellan, Rosco Gordon, Blind Cat Black, Robert Goetz, William Tonks, Krakersy, Soda, Van Cleef Continental, Lettuceheads
Influences: The birds, the bees, the songs mothers hum to babies, The Stooges, William Shakespeare, The Mississippi River, The Hang Ups, the breaking of hearts, beer, Soda (but not, really, soda), William H. Gass, the clear skies of a brutally cold winter's day.
Hey!!!!The ELEANOR ROOSEVELT records WALKER WITH HIS HEAD DOWN and CRUMBLING IN THE RAIN are now available at many digital sites such as: AMAZON They were recorded, respectively, in 1993 and 1995, they're near and dear to us and we think you'll like them.
Sounds Like: Different things to different people at different times.
Record Label: We are the label, MySpace, you big dummy.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Finally, a review that "gets it".

Google's translation of a Japanese blogger's review of "Espoontoon":"The band is not seen only in the computer St. Louis Quintet Eleanor Roosevelt. This is the up-tempo, the Wedding Present minimal o...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:40:00 GMT

Skuntry News! Digital Releases! Good Records!

The Eleanor Roosevelt records Walker with his Head Down and Crumbling in the Rain are now available at many digital music type operations including amazon!Also try itunes, emusic, other such placesThe...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:24:00 GMT

Chapter 10. Beer, dog, bible, baseball

10. Beer, Dog, Bible, Baseball As fate would have it, the campus recording studio was just across the street from the Gargoyle, the Wash. U pub, which was in its last days of serving beer to anyone wi...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:19:00 GMT

Chapter 9. In praise of organic chemistry

9. In Praise of Organic Chemistry I was slow to venture out of the nunnery. My teenage troublemaking in Planet Granite had been poor training for being a Boston squid, and neither set of experiences h...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:18:00 GMT

Chapter 8. The Birth of a Basement Bar

8. The Birth of a Basement Bar When d. boon, soul of the Minutemen, died on December 22, 1985 almost at the precise end of 1985 in a van accident near Phoenix (that's Meat Puppets country), the g...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:51:00 GMT

Chapter 7. In the Category of the Minor Miracles

7. In the Category of the Minor Miracles Skoob toughed it out on the East Coast. He was more successful than I had been at grafting a Granite City kid's consciousness onto a campus of New England prep...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:14:00 GMT

Chapter 6. The Sacred Order of Undiscovered Music

6. The Sacred Order of Undiscovered Music I was almost alone. Before the internet, no one could be completely alone. You had to leave your room to buy a record. Boston had been my boot camp for cool ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:13:00 GMT

Adventures...Ch. 5. In the Post-Punk Nunnery

5. In the Post-Punk Nunnery I went from the Navy to a nunnery, and this was a very good thing for music and me. When I said good-bye to ROTC, I also bid good-bye to Boston, settling for a school much ...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:23:00 GMT

Adventures ... Chapter 4. A Squid in Boston

My scholarship came with a rather nasty asterisk I had to join the United States Navy to accept it. I was in the Navy now, an ROTC cadet who had to hit boot camp before I checked into my dorm...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:03:00 GMT

Adventures ... Chapter 3. Another Planet

3. Another Planet Skoob and I busted out of Granite City in a typical way we went away to college. Granite City has always been a gritty, workingman's town, dominated by steel mills and their depend...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:24:00 GMT