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Kirk

About Me

Though best known as frontman/bassist for "Louisville's second-most rootin'-est tootin'-est band", Yardsale, Kirk Kiefer has been a secret weapon for Louisville musicians of all sorts. He's played keyboard for The Bad Blood, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, and was a founding member of the Health and Happiness Family Gospel Band as vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist. Other artists Kiefer has performed with include Freakwater's Catherine Irwin, Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy), Adventure, Safecracker, and numerous others.

At present, in addition to his duties as bass player for Adventure, Kiefer has gone back to his roots as a solo acoustic performer.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 17/07/2006
Band Website: www.yardsaleband.com
Band Members: Kirk Kiefer - stuff
Influences: Michael Nesmith, Scott Miller, Beatles, Beach Boys, Uncle Tupelo, the Monkees, Television, Tegan & Sara, Neil Young, The Killer
Sounds Like: Dogs chanting on a siberian night while dancing to the Macarena
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Last night I had a dream

Joining a long list of random musicians to feature in my dreams, Tegan and Sara made an appearance last night. In fact, I spent what seemed like the entire night dreaming about them. There was nothing...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:08:00 GMT

Reflections on bumpers

On my way to work this morning I saw a vanity plate. It read thusly: MAMD First off, how annoying are vanity plates that aren't easily identifiable? Nothing wrong with a IM4UK, you know, but this stuf...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:09:00 GMT

Name that sound

I'm sitting at my desk and coming from another office in the building is a strange sound that is one of four things: 1) some type of saw2) some type of drill3) a very mournful sounding cow4) a co...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:14:00 GMT

Dancing around the Mason-Dixon Line of Geekdom

While on the streets of downtown Atlanta this past weekend, I saw the Dragon Con parade. I suppose I should mention I didn't just happen upon it, I was in the extremely long line to get into said Con ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:44:00 GMT

Praise the lord

Some kind soul was nice enough to post several videos on YouTube of the Health & Happiness Family Gospel Band. If you've seen us, I'm sure you'll be happy to check this out. And if you haven't see...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:54:00 GMT

Birthday ramble

Another year older, another year wiser, as the saying goes. On second thought I'm not sure if I'm wiser, but hopefully I'm a smidge less stupid. That's about the same thing, isn't it? At this point in...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:43:00 GMT

Gospel ad... for the archives...

J. Todd Dockery (Brian's bandmate in The Smacks!) wrote up a nice little piece to promote last Saturday's gospel show. I only saw it a couple days ago but wanted to put it somewhere archived... so her...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:13:00 GMT

Houseflies song played on Dr. Demento!

A song by by friend Kevin's band The Uncommon Houseflies (of which I'm a member) was played on Dr. Demento's radio show this week, check it out: http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl?drd07.0603.html There...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:50:00 GMT

Jane you ignorant slut

The Touched are putting out a 7-inch. If you like dirty, skronky punk, I recommend you buy it immediately. If you don't, buy it anyway. I've been going back and forth with ol' Andy about The Beatles a...
Posted by on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:09:00 GMT

Monitor rock

So Yardsale played Headliners on Sunday. Among the highlights were the unintentionally hilarious stage antics of one of the bands whose name I won't mention because I don't know it. They sounded like ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:02:00 GMT