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Member Since: 5/10/2006
Band Website: thedustybuskers.com
Band Members: Fiddlin' "Uncle" Phoenix - fiddle, vocals, lyrics, moustache, restless legs syndrome
Dusty Squirrelfisher - guitar, mandolin, harmonicas, vocals, sideburns
and now featuring...
Mighty Joel Ford - washboard rhythms, stomp box, license plates
and
Dylan Charles - mandolin, woodshed
Dillinger Days, Hotel Congress. Tucson, AZ. 1-19-08.
Dillinger Days, outdoor stage. Tucson, AZ. 1-19-08.
Plush. Tucson, AZ. 12-9-07.
4th Ave. Winter Street Fair. Tucson, AZ. 12-9-07.
Photo:Lisa Healey/Eyepiece Photography
Influences: The story of The Dusty Buskers ("the band that fits on a bike") began on New Year's Eve 2006, in an alcove on 4th Avenue in Tucson, AZ, when new friends sang songs to the revelers en route between the local taverns.
By summer of that year, Fiddlin' Uncle Phoenix and Dusty Squirrelfisher were performing revved-up old-timey bluegrass music for passersby on an almost daily basis. Instruments in tow, the two mobile balladeers traveled the Sonoran Desert and honed their craft playing for smiles and tips of all kinds.
Having moved their act indoors to saloons across the Southwest, the duo humbly offers their unique arrangements of traditional Americana and Irish tunes full of hobos, heartbreak, trains, and spirits - the kinds you drink from a bottle, the ones that haunt after death, and the sort that need lifting.
The Dusty Buskers may also still be found playing for pedestrians of all ages at street fairs, coffee shops, farmers markets and on sidewalks near you.
Sounds Like: Heartfelt troubadours pouring all they got into a song, as strangers wander past and stop for a few moments of musical respite from their workaday routine.
Buskin', February 17, 2007
Photo: Carry Lee
"Sail Away Ladies" video shoot, February 24, 2007
Photo: Daron Shade
Copper Queen Hotel, Bisbee AZ, September 29, 2007
Photo: Amanda Bailey
KBRP LP 96.1 FM, Radio Free Bisbee, September 29, 2007
Photo: Amanda Bailey
Shorty Stubbs memorial, The Hut, September 30, 2007
Record Label: Crystal Records Bisbee
Type of Label: None