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The Turpentine Treacle Traveling Medicine Show

Heals What Ails Ya

About Me

Sideshow Stephen has been around. Hes been playing allover the place in pubs and clubs, on blockparties, county fairs, cattle auctions and whatnot, participating in all kinds of shindiggery, jamborezation and hootenannery imaginable. On one of those fairs (or was it a cattle market?) He met Professor Freewheelin Ray Gunn for the first time."It was down in the swamps. This guy just turned up outta the fog, murmured something along the lines that he was a drummer, and that he would be able to give Sideshow Stephens songs that rhythm, whats able to heal"So forces were joined to form the Turpentine Treacle Traveling Medicine Show, aiming to deliver solid entertainment to their audiences, with the convenient side effect of healing all ailments known to man and beast alike.Those guys medicine is a strange mix of howling blues, wailing country tunes and merry folksongs, accompanied by Sideshow Stephens slide guitar, mouth organ or mandolin, with a voice on top that will make you believe what you hear, the whole thing driven by the healing rhythms of Professor Ray G. from the marshland. Original Tunes by Sideshow Stephen are combined with cover songs, which were of some notoriety for the last time in the first half of the 20th century, although even then they would have been considered somewhat obscure.Their repertoire is of a timelessness that stands in relieving contrast to the overkill of trendieness and zeitgeist so dominant in other modern day acts.The Turpentine Treacle Traveling Medicine Show do not aim to rock the house, but to heal what ails ya.

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Member Since: 9/10/2006
Band Website: magnolia.ch/foundation
Band Members: SIDESHOW STEPHEN: vocals, harp, slideguitar, acoustic and electric guitars PROFESSOR RAY GUNN: drums and percussion
Influences: Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams I + III, Ry Cooder, Hawaii-Johnny from Thun, Jimmie Rodgers, Sol Hoopi, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash + Paycheck, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show and a host of others
Sounds Like: You tell us!
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CD in diesen Läden erhältlich / CD available in these stores:
BE-GOODE Records
Spitalgasse 36, Bern
Take Five Records
Mühlemattstrasse 68, Bern
www.takefive.ch
ZIG ZAG Records
Untere Hauptgasse 22, Thun
Why Not?
Vordere Hauptgasse 38, Zofingen
For mailorder: click here
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Back from Germany - our own tour review

wir haben's überlebt!!Es war eine fantastische Zeit die letzten drei Wochen! Ein besonderer Dank gebührt unseren alten und neu gewonnenen Fans und Freunden:Die "Mulde-Connection"Alex - you're the man!...
Posted by The Turpentine Treacle Traveling Medicine Show on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:21:00 PST

Contribution to Neil Young's Living With War

Howdy folksSo my little topical ditty "Mansions" was actually accepted on Neil Young's Living With War Today Protest Song Page! How cool is that, huh? And we're actually getting feedback from "good pe...
Posted by The Turpentine Treacle Traveling Medicine Show on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:49:00 PST

HAVE SONGS, WILL TRAVEL!

So we've got a bag full of songs, and we're currently in the process of recording them properly, but we still need to get out more.We are therefore looking for bookings in Switzerland and neighbouring...
Posted by The Turpentine Treacle Traveling Medicine Show on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:47:00 PST