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Bourgeois Gypsies

About Me

Featuring freewheeling musical wanderings through countrified blues, slinky swamp ballads and homespun hillbilly heartbreaks, the Bourgeois Gypsies mix slow-burning, porchsetting music with poignant punk lullabies that make you tap your feet, clutch your heart and shake your head all at the same time. With incessant gigging in jukejoints, festivals and smoky roadhouses across the country, the Gypsies are quietly building their following the old fashioned way, one night at a time.

The Bourgeois Gypsies formed when Arnold Mitchem, a high desert troubadour collided with Kaisa MacDonald, the inn-keeping, firespinning spawn of a gypsy in the café of a clothing-optional hot springs resort. Thrown together for an impromptu open mic session, the two musicians (and some grateful attendees of the event) realized that their styles clicked and their abilities complemented each other. Two cd’s, countless gigs and a few additional band members later the Gypsies are gearing up for prime time with their latest release.

Their second original CD “Faulty Fairytales,” resonates with songs of knightless dragons and princesses without towers and captures a shambling syncopation flirting with dissonance that clings to your soul and peeks through windows of a bygone era, and leaves you with one word … “More”.

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Member Since: 12/20/2005
Band Website: http://www.bgypsies.com
Band Members:
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Arnold Mitchem: Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Slide, Vocals
Kaisa MacDonald: Acoustic Guitars, Vocals
Kieth Rutherford: Acoustic & Electric Guitar
Jonathon Gibson: Bass
Peter Miller: Drums


Influences: Ani DiFranco, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits, RL Burnside, Mississippi John Hurt, Bruce Cockburn, Dinah Washington, Glen Miller, Taj Mahal, Garth MacDonald, Mary Child, the list goes on and on...
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Live on KPIG

We were fortunate to play live on air on the KPIG Saturday Ham Jam in San Francisco on the 3rd. We played in between Hot Buttered Rum and Ramblin' Jack Elliot. You can see pictures here, and the show...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:09:00 GMT

Bourgeois Gypsies on the Charts

Bourgeois Gypsies charted at 6 in the country on Independent Radio's CMJ rock category with Old Crow Medicince Show, Little Feat, Michael Franti and more! The album is now being played on over 150 sta...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:15:00 GMT

Bourgeois Gypsies on the Radio

Hi Everyone - we're currently on the AMA & Jambands charts and stations all over the country are playing Faulty Fairytales! For more informtaion on the radio stations playing Faulty Fairytales click ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:27:00 GMT