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Dime Box

About Me



Dime Box is hell-bent on saving animals, righting the wrongs of this world and making good American music. Smooth sweet vocals meet lightning-fast picking, Dime Box are the girls next door, if the girls next door just happened to have a damn good country band.

Check out Five and Dime Waltz, our new CD!

It's available at Freakbeat Records , CD Baby , Amazon , iTunes and the Avebury Records ' website.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/1/2005
Band Website: www.dimeboxband.com
Band Members: Kristi Callan - singing out front and guitar-playing
Yolande Ng - guitar-slinging and some singing in the background
Judy Cocuzza - smoking drums and good vibes
Lyn Bertles - fiddlin' and plucking the mandolin
Influences: Here's what's in our jukebox: Loretta Lynn, Wilco, Neko Case, Son Volt, Roy Acuff, Rose Maddox, Jay Farrar, Mike Stinson, Cracker, Golden Smog, Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, I See Hawks in L.A., Joe Ely, Merle Haggard, Rodney Crowell, Grey DeLisle, Slaid Cleaves, Dolly Parton, Steve Earle, Uncle Tupelo, The Derailers, The Old 97s, The Jayhawks, Chet Atkins, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, Iris Dement, Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Waylon Jennings, Robbie Fulks, Thad Cockrell, Carolyn Mark, and The Carter Family.
Sounds Like: Tammy Wynette singing Gram Parsons songs if Roy Acuff was backing her."The Flying Burrito Sisters" - San Diego Troubadour
Record Label: Avebury Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

2008 Favorites

Check Out Kristi's Top 9 of 2008 at www.caughtinthecarousel.comhttp://www.caughtinthecarousel.co m/features/images/kCallan_sm.jpgFavorites in 2008:Beck - Modern GuiltAlejandro Escovedo - Real AnimalBla...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:52:00 GMT

ICON Monthly Reviews Dime Box CD

ICON NOVEMBER 2008 Imagine for a moment a post-apocalyptic future where electricity is in short supply. We might only be able to hear music that's performed by real live human beans right in front o...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:08:00 GMT

More Air Play for the Dime Box CD!

Check out all these stations around the country playing Dime Box!! Most of these stations have websites that offer streaming capabilities so you can listen in and make requests if you want to.CountryB...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:57:00 GMT

Radio Airplay and WIKX Interview 9/7 6 pm

WIKX will broadcast an interview with Kristi on Sunday at 6 pm on Larry T's Down Home Cooking show. Log into www.wikx.com to stream the show.Other radio stations around the country playing Dime Box:ww...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:14:00 GMT

KOPN Sunday Morning Coffee House - Cotton Pickin’

Steve Jerrett is playing "Cotton Pickin'" on his Sunday Morning Coffee House show in Columbia Missouri. You can check it out at www.kopn.org. Steve says he plans his playlists in advance so if you wan...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:37:00 GMT

Dime Box Radio Play

Go to countrybear.com and listen to their cool station. They are playing "Mama." Here's a list of times in the next few days that they have scheduled to play the song. Tune in and give a listen and i...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:31:00 GMT

Dime Box Ad

We've got a box ad on the home page (near the bottom) of acted-by.comCheck it out!The Dime Box media assault continues.....
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:28:00 GMT

Caught in the Carousel

The amazing Mr. Alex Green has written something wonderful about us:With her new country/folk band Dime Box, it seems Kristi Callan, who was the lead singer of the '80s pop band Wednesday Week, has le...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:09:00 GMT

allmusic.com Review of Five and Dime Waltz

Dime Box are five women exploring the wide open spaces of Southern California with music that offers a smart and thoroughly engaging take on classic country, bluegrass and folk with just the right das...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:59:00 GMT

O.C. Weekly Likes Dime Box!

[Locals Only] It's Country Time With Dime BoxBY DAVE SEGALThursday, June 5, 2008 - 3:01 pmFull disclosure: I've never cared much for country music. For one, it may be the least psychedelic music this ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:20:00 GMT