Member Since: 1/7/2006
Band Website: redheadedstepchild.net
Band Members: Kathryn Koch: singer/songwriter, harmonica, saxophone, mandolin, bass.
David Nanni: songwriter, guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass.
Brandi "Street" Belle: fiddle.
Influences:
acoustic blues, traditional jazz and ragtime, jug bands, string bands, hillbilly brother duets and urban blues godesses. Bessie Smith, Blind Willie Johnson, Son House, Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Charlie Patton, Kokomo Arnold, Skip James, Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Don Reno, Moore and Napier, Woody Guthrie, Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker, Portishead, Nancy McCallion, Gillian Welch, Larry Keel, Danny Barnes, Sassagrass, The Lee Boys, Hypnotic Clambake, Rose Bond, Spencer Bohren, Tarbox Ramblers, Scott H Biram, The Horse Flies, John Hartford, Sloppy Joe, John Hammond, Regional Mexican folk music, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, U2, Bob Marley, Tom Waits, Janis Joplin, Peter Gabriel, Jerry Garcia, Keith Richards, Dolly Parton, Jypsi, Stevie Douglas, Angel Snow, The Pine Box Boys, Chet o'Keefe.
Sounds Like: The bastard child of Bessie Smith and Woody Guthrie!
Record Label: Redheaded Records
Type of Label: Indie