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Pokey LaFarge

Wanna be in my Jug Band!?

About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4Since before the 20th century, it has been the idea behind the work of the songster to showcase a wide variety of playing and songwriting styles. Timelessly original, Louisville, Ky’s Pokey LaFarge delivers a contagious mix of folk, ragtime, and blues that will warm your blood! With dark and dreamy lyrics and a deeply powerful voice, Pokey presents a lights out performance wrapped in cynical humor and quirky style. He has also been known to highlight his original sets with accapella gospel numbers while clapping and stomping. “Marmalade”, the debut record from Pokey LaFarge is like a first novel; raw, visionary, and passionate. It is a must have for any lover of true acoustic music. It features all original tunes by Pokey LaFarge. Pokey’s music really started to take shape in 2001 with a string band known as The Schwillbillies. Public acclaim soon followed in local and national newspapers as well as local and national television and radio stations. After three years of nationwide performing he left the ensemble to pursue a solo career in 2004. Years of experience on the road developed his music into what it is today: personal, even sorrowful at times, yet retaining his stylish and joyous perspective in his music. LaFarge has had the honor of sharing stages with prominent and influential acts such as Old Crow Medicine Show, The Avett Bros., Backyard Tire Fire, The Crooked Jades, The Derek Trucks Band, Nick Africano, Robinella, and Donna the Buffalo. Pokey has also toured extensively with the Hackensaw Boys where he is a guest mandolin player... type="text/javascript" src="http://www.podtech.net/player/popup.js"..Footage from Lo-Fi St. Louis Interview 3/7/07 by Bill Streeter go to www.lofistl.com Episode #145 to leave comment

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/15/2006
Band Website: Coming Soon!
Band Members: CDBABY LINK for POKEY LAFARGE: Marmalade --

Influences: Blind Blake, Luke Jordan, Sleepy John Estes, Ray Charles, The Ink Spots, Sam Cooke, Outkast, Fatlip, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Hoagy Carmichael, The Mills Bros., Henry Thomas, John Hartford, Jim Jackson, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Jimbo Mathus & the Knockdown Society, Tom Maxwell, Duke Ellington, Eddie Head & Family, Blind Boy Fuller, Rev. Gary Davis, Eddie Lang, Woody's Roadhouse on 91.9 WFPK, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Robert Wilkins, Jack Teegarden, Al Green, Howard Armstrong, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Mississippi Sheiks, the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, my Clementine Frances Belle, Fats Waller, Bulleit Bourbon and Camel Filters, and the not so hidden Louisville alleys, i.e. Carpet Alley.
Sounds Like: someone crooning to the moon from a catwalk.
Record Label: Booking: [email protected]
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lo-Fi St. Louis Interview

check out this intimate Pokey LaFarge interview on Lo-Fi St. Louis were he explains his innermost feelings on his ragime blues music. the website is www.lofistl.com. it can be easily downloaded and/or...
Posted by Pokey LaFarge on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:50:00 PST

Vote Obama in '08

hey folks, it's your ragtime man Pokey LaFarge here. i just saw Barack Obama speak in Louisville today with some friends. he's very inspiring. just an everyday dude who has some big time motivation to...
Posted by Pokey LaFarge on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:51:00 PST

Have guitar will and do travel

just wanted to put it to y'all and let you know that you should let me know if you here of some good places you would like me to play in your town. that includes bars, clubs, old folks homes...
Posted by Pokey LaFarge on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:48:00 PST

Ode to my friend and his Graveyard Sea

Loneliness is always spent in darkness like the days spent longing never to see the sun and your physical body an impossibility for me standing at the graveyard of the sea knowing it will never come k...
Posted by Pokey LaFarge on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST

Friends along the road

well, so i have the day off today. it's been the first day for the last two weeks that i have been able to kick back. dug into the old pastime of sunday football with my gals family. i have been learn...
Posted by Pokey LaFarge on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:25:00 PST

Intimate Gathering

when you're playing for family and friends man you got nothing to lose. that's what it was last night too. i played the Rudyard Kipling in Louisville. started around 7:30pm. very mellow. very intimate...
Posted by Pokey LaFarge on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:30:00 PST

Back "home" in Virginia

back in Virginia again as the Hackensaw Boys have got a couple days off. we just did a weeks worth of shows in Iowa and Michigan. we played the River Roots Festival in Davenport with Alejandro Escoved...
Posted by Pokey LaFarge on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:54:00 PST

Columbus--round 2am

i am 22 going on 55. i am wired and dirty here in Columbus, OH. we played at The Basement tonight. going to Lansing, MI tomorrow. then Ann Arbor, then Cleveland then home for nearly two weeks. turning...
Posted by Pokey LaFarge on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:18:00 PST