Member Since: 2/11/2007
Band Website: coupdegrass.com/
Band Members: How can you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to barrooms? It isn't easy, but we try. ...participants, unindicted co-conspirators and objects of influence... Larry Benade, lead guitar & vocals. Michael Dunkley, lead vocals & mandolin. Tom Philion, bass. Bob Spates, fiddle. Brit Stenson, banjo & vocals. Michael Schonbach, bass. (Way Downtown) Laird Boles, Jack Cowardin, Pete Kennedy, Mike Stein, John Glick, Karen Krahn, Jim Queen, Carolyn Kellock, Tim Kruzek, Jack Buckley, Smiley Hobbs, Tom Ross, Ratso, Fred Geiger, Chris Stiefel, The Mindless Wonders and John Brown's Dream.
Influences: The Stanley Brothers, Doc Watson, The Mills Brothers, Duke Ellington, Flatt & Scruggs, The Kingston Trio, Little Feat, The Country Gentlemen, Wade Ward, Kyle Creed, Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers, The Beatles, New Grass Revival, John Hartford, Benny Goodman, Hank Williams, Robert Mitchum, John Prine, Phil Ochs, The Golden Gate Quartet, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Bill Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Sun Ra, Uncle Dave Macon.
Sounds Like: Nothing you have ever heard.
Type of Label: None