Member Since: 3/23/2007
Band Website: carltonstudios.co.uk
Band Members: Jake & Barny are both players themselves. Now playing with the Carlton Jug Band. Jake jams with Double Bass, Guitar and Mandolin. Barny is a virtuoso Harmonica player and sometime strummer.
In the 80's, Jake was the guitarist with seminal Glasgow outlaws 'James King and the Lonewolves'. While Barny was the frontman with the crazy 'Sammy and the Badgers'.
Danny Mitchell is an accomplished player and producer. Writing songs with Midge Ure (with whom he penned the 80's no1 ' If I Was') Bob Geldof and Brian Kennedy. Between them they have worked with some of the biggest names in music;
John Cale, Nico, Roxy Music, Frankie Miller, Holland and Dozier, Ultravox
Influences: Nashville Bluegrass Band, Skaggs and Rice, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan,
Ry Cooder, Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Violent Femmes, James Blood Ulmer,
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Kris Kristofferson, The Band, Little Feat, Hank Snow, Rupert Pupkin, Big George and the Business, David Lynch, Jimmy Shand, Motorhead, Jeff Buckley, Bob Marley, Bob Hope, George Thorogood, Leadbelly, James Elroy, Deadwood, Gerry Sadowitz, Miles, Satchmo, Bix, Duke, Ol BlueEyes etc
Sounds Like: accoustic porridge/electric soup
Record Label: carltonmusic
Type of Label: Indie