Member Since: 6/8/2006
Band Members: all sounds by Kirk Withrow; I proudly play Deering banjos, Tacoma guitars, and Warhorse Music Works cigar boxes as well as anything else I can get to make a sound.
Influences: Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Tony Furtado, Roscoe Holcomb, Emry Arthur, Son House, R.L. Burnside, John Hurt, Skip James, Cedell Davis, Johnny Cash, Hank Sr., Howard Finster, Ravi Shankar, John Prine, Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown, Old 97s, Driver-By Truckers/Patterson Hood, Daniel Johnston, Evan Dando, Todd Snider, Ben Lee, Ben Kweller, Mike Ness, Phil Draper (CBG luthier extraordanaire and helluva nice guy), Shane Speal, Johnny Lowe, Doomtown Jug Sluggers, Max Shores via his hill country doc, all the folks I've met who make instruments and music their way, left brain and right mind...
Sounds Like: cowpunk-ass blues with more soul than Rick James and Stevie Wonder in a hot tub with enough diesel to hit you harder than Ike Turner which is not terribly dissimilar from the sound dogshit makes upon striking the pavement after being hurled from the Sears Tower...kind of
Record Label: Insurrection Records/Dark Holler Records
Type of Label: Indie