Music:
Member Since: 3/27/2006
Band Website: SITandDieCo.com
Band Members:
Bluegrass"? Um...not that we're aware of, at least, but why quibble over the finer points of a nice mention in (see article below) New York magazine?! They got the moustaches right and that's what's important. Oh, and just ask if you'd like to hear the referenced men's room story. But, no, George Michael was not involved...
Proving that, indeed, it's all for the children, SIT & Die Co. preaches "Don't Try This At Home, Kids" at a recent appearance at the world famous Rodeo Bar in New York City (as reviewed in the article above, as a matter of fact). Funny, but from the stage one could swear that the audience was actually listening. Kind thanks to Little Lenore Koppelman for the clip!
THE LOWDOWN: Company founder Michael McMahon sings, plays the electrified "takeoff" guitar and composes both heart and novelty songs, while Garth Powell anchors the beat on his "doghouse" bass and harmonizes along with flat-top rhythm guitar player "Jukejoint" Jonny Hammer. The band members number only three, but at times you'd swear that there's nearly four of them.
Pictured below: Three guys abroad. SIT & Die Co. appears north of the border at the swell "Red Hot & Blue" annual rockabilly festival near Montreal, Quebec. Photo courtesy of Cadillac Al.
Influences: The SIT & Die Co. songbook is often likely to feature a number by one of the many Hillbilly, Rhythm & Blues or "Rockabilly" artists that they so admire, possibly along the likes of Hank Williams, Hank Penny, Bill Carlisle, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Don Gibson, Billy Ward or Bob Newman, but folks seem to go for their original compositions best, so that's what predominates, with a good number of them being about animals, for no particular reason. Chickens, monkeys and jackrabbits aside, novelty songs make for a good time in a nightclub and that suits the SIT & Die boys just fine!
Pictured below: "Hey mister, I want a Fudgesicle!" SIT & Die Co. braves the sunshine on the fabled Coney Island boardwalk at the 2007 Coney Island Rockabilly Festival. Photo courtesy of JR Cash (um, the other one, that is).
Sounds Like: The hillbilly boogie -- as in the kind of music that makes the beer bottles bounce on the tables, according to famed piano pounder Moon Mullican.
SIT & Die Co. does its darndest to keep those bottles bouncing, too, with a rollicking stage show that is never short on entertainment. Always dressed in their gabardine best and with a boot polish shine, the boys like to keep it lively -- whether giving out with an uptempo hillbilly number, a shuffling blues ballad or a flat out "real gone" rocking roller -- and all with plenty of snappy banter mixed in to keep things moving. Could be that you might find SIT & Die Co. to be just what your manufacturing requirements call for!
Pictured below: The Men In Black. SIT & Die Co. offers up a tribute to JR Cash to mark his February 26th birthday.
Record Label: SIT & Die Co. prefers the round ones that rotate.
Type of Label: Indie
