Music:
Member Since: 2/17/2006
Band Website: pappyandharriets.com
Band Members: Located in Pioneertown, CA in the high desert near Palm Springs and Joshua Tree, Pappy and Harriet's is the best honky-tonk this side of the Mississippi, featuring some of the best music in the world. Home to high desert musicians such as Victoria Williams, The Thrift Store All Stars, Ted Quinn, Tim Easton, Cockrobin, Deborah Iyall, Honky Tonk Train, Bingo's Dream Band, Wooden Nickle, Shaun Mafia, Rim Rock Rhythm Pushers, Shari Elf and the Fairy Elf Band, Jackie Young, The Rojer Arnold Band, Shadow Mountain Band, Purple Mountain Matinee, and many many more. Open Thursday through Monday, with live music nightly including Pappy Hour Sundays w/ The Thrift Store All Stars. Past shows include Lucinda Williams, The Donnas, Rickie Lee Jones, Robert Plant, Neko Case, Daniel Lanois, Ralph Stanley, Gram Rabbit, Shelby Lynne, Jem, Cat Power, The Blasters, Wanda Jackson, Throw Rag, The Supersuckers, Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter, Leon Russell, earthlings?, The Handsome Family, The Duke Spirit, The Ditty Bops, Bartender's Bible, Inara George, Cracker, Camper van Beethoven, John Doe, Eagles of Death Metal, The Spores, Concrete Blonde, Rosie Flores, I See Hawks in LA, Burrito Deluxe, Sin City All Stars, Shooter Jennings, M. Ward, Savoy Brown, Canned Heat, Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo, Romeo Void, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Mike Stinson, Jesse Colter, Sky Saxon and The Seeds, Jonathan Richman, Giant Sand, Calexico, eastmountainsouth, Graham Parker, Michele Shocked, Stan Ridgeway, Lana Rebel, Juke Logan, Steve Poltz, The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Dead Rock West, and many many more! Past festivals include Campout with Cracker & CVB, Chuckwalla, GramFest and Sagefest in the outdoor western amphitheater. We also have the best BBQ!
Influences: Alt Country, Country AND Western, Swing, Rock, Rockabilly, Folk, Blugrass, Alternative, Punk Rock, American Roots, Twangadelic and everything else in between, beeeotch!
Sounds Like: "Run by the ex-New Yorkers Linda Krantz and Robyn Celia, Pappy & Harriet's is a must stop for musicians like Lucinda Williams, PJ Harvey and Leon Russell. Sunday afternoons are when the local desert rock bands come out, among them Gram Rabbit, Angel Thrift and Queens of the Stone Age. On a recent Thursday afternoon, Jessica Von Rabbit, the lead singer of Gram Rabbit, was drinking a mug of beer at the end of a long wooden bar, outfitted in a fur-lined coat and big red sunglasses.
In any other small desert town her midday vampy-rock star appearance might have caused hostile stares. But in Joshua Tree, she was just another local."
~Julia Chaplin, NY Times
Record Label: The Ghost Of Pappy
Type of Label: Indie
