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BUTTERCUP

you love to live so wrong

About Me

BUTTERCUP is a 5-piece honky tonk band out of Richmond Va fronted by two sisters and backed by fiddle, pedal, twang, and stomp.This is country like it was in the day -- a giddy-up combination of old-timey drink-cheat-and-cry classics and our own hillbilly-noir originals about loving, leaving and self-medication.CONTACT TO BOOK US, JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST, OR JUST SAY HOWDY: [email protected], or message us right here!

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Member Since: 4/30/2006
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/buttercupmusic
Band Members: Cassandra - guitar/vocals. Octavia - bass/vocals. David - drums. John - lead guitar. Mike - fiddle/pedal steel

At Plan 9 Music in Carytown and Key Signatures Music, 5705 Grove Ave, and selling worldwide on www.cdbaby.com, Apple iTunes, payplay.fm, Yahoo Music, Best Buy, Rhapsody, Napster, MSN Music and more. Also check out this cool store: www.villagerecords.com!
Influences: , Love Objects and Hopeless Crushes: All the Hanks plus Hank Locklin, Hank Snow, Hank Thompson, and Wayne Hancock, Mickey Spillane, NRG Krysis, Julie London, Bryan, Ray Price, Cindy Walker, Bob Dylan, Johnny Paycheck and George Jones (in their flat-top days), Eartha Kitt, Buck Owens, Don Rich, Floyd Tillman, The Gershwins, Rose Maddox, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Kitty Wells, BiggieT Woodson, Jean Shepard, Jeannie C. Riley, Carl Perkins, Bill Kirchen, Dean Martin, Conway, Patsy, Loretta, Maybelle, Webb Pierce, Wanda Jackson, Jo Stafford, Patti Page, The Clash, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Dale Watson, Bob Wills, Johnnie Ray, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and the way the sweat rolls down Lucinda.
Sounds Like: Kitty Wells hitting bottom
Record Label: Timanko Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

pedal steel

A little while back Buttercup's fiddler Maestro Spike picked up an old pedal steel down at the WalMark (same place he got his drivers license and high school diploma).  Well he brings it down to ...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:35:00 PST

Buttercup in Dutch! Yeehah!

Review by Freddie Celis at www.rootstime.be!  He may be panning us for all we know...  Scroll down for an amusing translation obtained electronically at www.babelfish.com... BUTTERCUPEV...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:04:00 PST

Review: Buttercup’s "hillbilly noir" like a Cline-Waits collab!

Check out another great review of our CD, "Evil for You" posted on CDBaby at http://cdbaby.com/cd/buttercupmusic!  This is what it says:   "I love this record! It is the best CD that I...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:14:00 PST

Evil for You: The Bluesbunnys album of the month!

The Bluesbunny Music Reviews November Album of the Month   Buttercup's Evil For You   Woman and guns. Now there's a cocktail full of trouble. This thought was brought to the Bluesbunny's m...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:06:00 PST

Buttercup gets a nod from Raging Bullard, Detroit News

An aside to transplanted Southerners... If you're into cheatin' honky tonk music, there's a new star on the horizon: Buttercup, a Virginia band featuring two sisters with "iffy" reputations and, appar...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:30:00 PST

Forest George reviews us and Grandpa Eddie in Richmond Music Journal

Rocking at Grandpa Eddie's Grandpa Eddie's Alabama Ribs & BBQ restaurant is like being in a different era with its old-style dining booths, black tabletops and dark red seats. The feel is rustic, ...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:57:00 PST

Evil for You at these fine retailers

We hope you like what you are hearing. If you are evil for more, come and get us at these fine retailers: Plan 9's Carytown Store, 3012 W Cary St, Richmond Key Signatures Music, 5705 Grove Ave. R...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:20:00 PST

Duck and roll, baby. Shes comin!

10 originals, 4 cover songs, juicy liner notes. Buttercup's debut CD, Evil for You, is jam-packed with hits, misses and divine mysteries.  The ship comes in October 1st.  Ya want? ...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:34:00 PST

honeyed words from richmond.com

Saturday, August 18Buttercup at Poe's Pub With two guitar-playing chicks at its forefront, Buttercup revels in delivering punchy Country-Western licks that pay homage to timeless genre subject matter ...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:56:00 PST

recording update

All told, Buttercup spent about two and half days at Shadewood Ranch Studio jeeped to the gillyogs on adrenalin and cold fried chicken, playing till flesh gaped and dogs howle...
Posted by BUTTERCUP on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:40:00 PST