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Charlie King

...as serious as a fart attack!

About Me

I'm from Battle Creek,MI. I played the Tuba in high school and spent my summers doing summer stock at the Barn Theatre in Augusta. I moved to Chicago where I worked at the Old Town School of Folk Music and joined the infamous Old no.8, a legendarily drunken alt/cunt outfit of mythic proportions. ( Remember the Morseland! ) Several albums and sexually-transmitted diseases later, I moved to L.A. to pursue my dream of becoming morally bankrupt & spitting out vitroil in a filthy folk duo called The King and the Barber. Ah, those were the ham salad days. And as of 2007, I'm tearing up the country with my new favorite degenerates...the Asylum Street Spankers! What can I say, I love Tuvan-Throat singing to hillbilly music. Who doesn't, right?
Song for New Orleans

5 Minutes with Charlie King

America's Got Issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgfAYCFyZ2w

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Member Since: 11/12/2006
Band Website: kingandthebarber.com
Band Members: Charlie King plays guitar/slide guitar, dobro, lap steel, mandolin, harmonica, jug, clawhammer banjo, autoharp, ukulele, jew's harp, slide whistle and washtub bass. He is also into harmonic overtone singing and Eephin'!
Influences: Anthology of American Folk Music, Huun-Huur-Tu, Jerry Reed, Kongar-ol Ondar, John Prine, Yat-Kha, Holy Modal Rounders, Roger Miller, Hound Dog Taylor, Steve Martin, Rev.Gary Davis, Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers, Muddy Waters, Tom Waits, Triple Chicken Foot, Blind Willie Johnson, Old and in the Way, the Smothers Brothers, Woody Guthrie, Bob Brozman, Uncle Dave Macon, Captain Beefheart, R.L. Burnside, Django Reinhart & Stephane Grapelli, Homer & Jethro, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Naked Trucker & TBones, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Willie Nelson, Robert Johnson, Mike Seeger, The D, Sol Hoopii, The Folksmen, Bob Dylan & The Band, Bill Monroe, Frank Zappa, Robbie Fulks, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, Devil in a Woodpile, Monty Python, George Harrison, George Jones, Spike Jones, Hobart Smith, Sacred Steel gospel, every single Creedence Clearwater Revival album, and the late great Paul Pena. Oh, and HeeHaw, of course.
Sounds Like: Rednecks weeping, babies coughing, Indians whistling and Pentacostals farting in harmony
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

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Posted by Charlie King on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:07:00 PST