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KeepSweet

About Me

KeepSweet is the brainchild of former roadhouse country singer, Erin Gannon ( Motel Fresno ). Erin became fascinated with badass blueswomen and their songs while reading about Lucille Bogan's "Shave 'Em Dry" in Stanley Booth's "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones." Much talk has been made of how blueswomen sung about being victims, but promoted liberation in the power and anger with which they sang those laments. In light of the existence of this collection of tunes, it seems perhaps the stronger songs, the songs in which the women are just as dangerous and wild as their male blues counterparts, were supressed in favor of more palatable croonings.
Erin assigned herself the task of bringing these gritty little gems back to life.
    "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," originally performed by Bessie Smith "Me and My Gin," originally performed by Bessie Smith "If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It," originally performed by Barrelhouse Annie "Me and My Gin," originally performed by Bessie Smith

Stay tuned for more filthy women's blues.

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Member Since: 19/07/2007
Band Website: www.keepsweetblues.com
Band Members: vox: Erin Gannon
git: Jeremiah Kennedy (RIP)
Influences: livin' in the gutter
Sounds Like: screaming dirt
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Danger and How To Keep Moving

So, lovelies.By now you've most likely heard that my partner-in-crime, Jeremy Kennedy has passed away. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Jeremy, whose very existence helped get KeepSweet's fi...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 10:32:00 GMT

KeepSweet's Debut EP, "Watch Your Step" Available Now!!

Yes, that's right. FINALLY. "Watch  Your Step" is now available on CDBaby. We wanna give sloppy, whiskey-soaked kisses to Handsome Jon Burbank, David "Sugarlips" Lipkind, and Nathaniel Walters for hel...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:38:00 GMT

KeepSweet on the Freakin' Road!

That's right. You're looking at the logo for our Pacific Northwest tour, The Juice in the Hole Tour. We've gotten together with some other badass blues musicians and put together a roadshow that's goi...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:21:00 GMT

KeepSweet: Back in the Freakin Saddle

Lovelies: With the irrepressible Jeremiah on the mend (that is one badass motherfucker), KeepSweet is booking and mixing and planning and scheming and posing and boozing and bloozing. Check ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:40:00 GMT

KeepSweet Busted, Stopped Dead in Tracks by Sidewalk

Hey there, all you drinkers, fuckers, killers and whores. It is my extreme displeasure to announce that KeepSweet will be out of commission for the next couple weeks due to Jeremy's untimely dance wi...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:15:00 GMT

New Songs On Page

Just a quick note to say that the new songs are not-completely-but-almost finalized mixes of three songs from our forthcoming EP. Recording and mixing, again, by Jonny Burbank. And the fucking amazin...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Comin Up on Summer

Lovelies: Just FY’alls’I, J & E are slowing down on the shows so we can concentrate on the release of our first EP.  We recorded it up in Portland with the amazing ...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:00 GMT

Happy Holidays from KeepSweet!

Keep Sweet will be taking a hiatus for the month of December, while Jeremy takes a holiday vacation through southern swamplands. Hopefully, he will return with tales of debauchery from lagoon saloons ...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:56:00 GMT

Drunken Recording Sesh

So Monday, J and I got plastered and recorded some songs in case it ain't too late to send em to the Folsom Street Fair people and get on that bill. Of course, I ain't heard from them yet, but at leas...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:54:00 GMT