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Sweet Crude Bill

look sharp and keep your wits about you

About Me

Specializing in Robust American Love
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"Reminding us that hoe-downs, horas, and hootenannies are the way to go if you're looking for a serious party, rowdy San Francisco five-piece Sweet Crude Bill & the Lighthouse Nautical Society kick off an evening of finger-picking with bar-fight bravado. Following in the grand avant-folk traditions of Man Man and Gogol Bordello, the bellowing Sweet Crude Bill and his minions channel Walt Whitman through the mouths of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, swapping stories with the audience and instruments — including violin, banjo, and lap steel...
- Flavorpill LA

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/10/2006
Band Website: sweetcrudebill.com
Band Members:
Vs. The Press Gang
EP

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Unleashing a furious imagination, Sweet Crude Bill washed upon the San Francisco shores in the early part of this century, cast out of his true home, an oil rig at sea, by a massive explosion. Over many years, Bill has gathered a merry crew of musicians and vagrant philosophers who now bring their music to you. Ten Finger Joe, Paintbrush Willie, Anne Can Anne and Hal Burton find in Bill the Tall Tale Hero for whom they each searched, and in turn Bill finds his poems, stories, and melodies arranged into such a frenzy that preachers' wives have stripped their clothes and gone mad. Part rock, part rockabilly & renegade country, with tastes of the various shores where Bill & his mates have landed. Pure heart.

Influences: Johnny Cash, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Dolly Parton, The Doors, Reverend Billy, Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, The Band, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Supersuckers, Detroit Cobras, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, Bill Monroe, Old Crow Medicine Show, Woody Guthrie, La Plebe, Manu Chao, The Earl Brothers, Willie Nelson, Roscoe Holcomb, Waylon Jennings, Kenny Rogers, Velvet Underground, Pixies, Nirvana, Guns 'N' Roses, The Devil's Own, Antibalas, Loquat, Black Sabbath, Kris Kristofferson, The Pogues, Mano Negra, Gogol Bordello, Red Elvises, Reverend Horton Heat, Tom Waits
Sounds Like: Elvis Presley and Pecos Bill trying to sneak into a Pogues concert.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Sweet Crude Bill article in NOISE, the S.F. Bay Guardian music blog

http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/music/2008/01/counting_our_musical _new_years.htmlListen locally! A musical new year's resolution Blow me down, Sweet Crude Bill and ...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:59:00 PST

SF Chronicle says we be gonzo!

link to SF GateSWEET CRUDE BILL & THE LIGHTHOUSE NAUTICAL SOCIETY Five practitioners of gonzo Americana who draw equally from Johnny Cash, Jerry Garcia, the Beat Farmers, Phish ... fill in your fa...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:56:00 PST

Theres no such thing as bad press...

In case you were ever wondering why we don't cover the stones...http://wiretapmusic.com/content/view/91/29/
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:46:00 PST

the guardians of our most precious Home

technically we are not home yet. it is sunday, err, saturday or something and we are in Portland in the shadow of towering redwoods where eucalyptus drifts on the wind like the single thread of an old...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:46:00 PST

"I'm glad you guys didn't suck" or "tour heroes save the day"

word may or may not have reached you about the fate of Billie Jean. she's getting a new engine as we speak in eastern pennsylvania after she blew one and possibly two (v8) headgaskets. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:03:00 PST

The Big Easy

tuesday, june 10th.  new orleans, louisiana. we are pleased and  proud to report that the venerable, colorful grand dame that is n'awlins is alive and kicking, despite any rumours to the con...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:05:00 PST

six days, eight bruises, and a busted violin

marfa texas is a lovely town. it's small and with a wide sky. there are no addresses and Ray's Bar has "Joe's" all over it. it's just down the street from the post office, one block from the ballroom,...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:12:00 PST

San Francisco Bay Guardian 5/9/07

This is what the venerable San Francisco Bay Guardian says about the Bill & the Society Ever wonder what the Cramps might've sounded like had they hailed from Bakersfield in the '60s? How about '68 Co...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:21:00 PST

SPAFO on Neil Young's Anti-War site Living With War!

http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html Please visit the link above, find us at spot #406 in the left hand column, and click on our song "Satan is the Pilot on Air Force One".  It's h...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:05:00 PST

The Problem with Music, by Steve Albini

reposted respectfully from TheBaffler.com The Problem With Music Steve Albini (From Baffler Number 5, 1993) Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign wit...
Posted by Sweet Crude Bill on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:22:00 PST