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Bad Uncle

About Me

The streets were drenched with whiskey, the gutters overflowing, and still the steady rain of rye continued. Some fluke of nature had filled the sky with yellow, greasy clouds that poured whiskey all over town for an entire week. Bums rejoiced, police were injured and priests retired. It was on this week that the band was formed. When some fool lit a match, the entire city burned and when it was over Bad Uncle came to be. This two peice PolkaBilly band takes a bit from eastern euopean polka music, a bit from the rum-running prohibition-era blues, and a bit from the gutter punk rock of the late seventies. With D'Arcy playing the trash can drum kit, and Santosh playing accordian and foot organ, Bad Uncle sings songs about hard liquor, cocain, filthy love, incest, dirty clothes and much much more. Both of us also play in the Unsettlers, and have played many little shows here and there, but now that we have enough money to drink again, we find ourselves playing more shows and longer sets. We would like to thank that one bad uncle that everyone has, devil worship, baby deers and the letter G. And very special thanks to Dave for recording our songs and Yann for the art. May whiskey pour from the sky upon both your beautiful heads. Amen.

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Member Since: 11/12/2007
Band Members: Uncle D'Arcy - Drum Set. Uncle Santosh - Accordion, Vocals, Sermons. Uncle Hugo - Guitar, Banjo. Uncle Ben - Bass.
Influences: Jerry Lee Lewis, Louis Armstrong, Gogol Bordello, Johny Cash, Hank Williams, Slayer, Tom Waits, Ralph Stanley, The Unsettlers, Blood Shot Bill, CCR, Leadbelly, Buddy Rich, Stevie Ray, Cher, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Morphine, Friendly Rch and the Lolipop People, The Subcollisions, USWM, ZZ Top, Patrick Watson, genital cancer, 0.00007891001, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Zeppelin, Billie Holliday, 950 cans of bud, cold hands, cold feet, cough syrup, the sweet lord jesus, king neptune, cheap jib and anything that sucks.
Sounds Like: Polish two-step polka mixed with depression era blues and novocain. Rockabilly, punk rock, polka, blues and storytelling. Polkabilly. Polkore.
Record Label: Unsigned

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