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About Me

The Woes are a group of NYC musicians led by Cicero Jones based around the songs of Osei Essed. Essed's songs straddle a variety of American music genres, from Blues to Bluegrass to Country Music and early New Orleans Jazz. Likewise the instrumentation varies from show to show, some nights The Woes turn up at the door as a string band with violin, pedal steel and an upright bass, other nights a brass band, with tuba, trumpet, saxophone, trombone and French horn some nights a blending of the two. The group size is also a variable, swinging between 4 to 10 musicians on stage at one time - the results is generally a raucous good time. The Woes program a monthly event at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick called SPITSHINE, booking an eclectic mix of music for the evening from Brooklyn gospel, hip hop, country music, blues and singer song writers. The evening even features the occasional pop group. Over the last year The Woes have performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Montauk Club, The Brooklyn Next! festival, Brooklyn Public Library, Freddy's Backroom and are regulars at some of Brooklyn's finer music establishments.At this time, The Woes have completed their upcoming release "Heaven Knows" (release date soon TBA) and are working on an EP to be release in mid 2009.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/17/2005
Band Website: thewoes.com
Band Members: Osei Essed (Voice, Guitar, Banjo, Banjo-Mandolin) - Cicero Jones (Organ, French Horn, Rhodes, Voice) - Joe Keady (Tuba) - Andrew Platt (Upright Bass) - Charlie Burnham (Violin) - Mike Irwin (Trumpet) - Maria Eisnen (Baritone/Alto Sax) - Joe Salvati (Drums)- -Dan Romer (Accordion/Stomping/Singing) - Ronen Ben (Accordion, Harmonica) - Adam Christgau (Drums) - Chris Kuffner (Electric Bass) - Philip Sterk (Pedal Steel) and a slew of other equally wonderful musicians and friends.
Influences: doc boggs, mississippi john hurt, john fahey, john frusciante, howling wolf, charlie patton, polly jean harvey, ma rainey, bessie jones, billie holiday, memphis minnie, kurt weill, stravinsky, the jesus lizard, rl burnside, slayer, can, johnny cash, bob dylan, alan watts, albert ayler, bad brains, edith piaf, hank williams sr., fugazi, jeru, woody, charlie poole, blind joe taggard, Talking Heads, Prince, Tom Waits, Rev. Blind Gary Davis,willie nelson, hoagy carmichael, ray charles, sam cooke MUSIC MUSIC MUSICMUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC , necro, the mistfits, the dead kennedys, black flag, chet baker, MUSIC MUSIC MUSICMMUSIC!!!!
Sounds Like: Music
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Oseis Radio Show

Last post for today. And... so, yeah - it seems like I have a radio show mostly- that is to say I'm, there most every Thursday playing music I'm glad to listen to with occasional live in studio perfor...
Posted by the woes on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:06:00 PST

The Woes on Facebook (preview from new record)

Check out our face book page:http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/The+WoesThere you can hear an early version of "The Secret" from our upcoming record "Heaven Knows" It rocks and was mixed by our dea...
Posted by the woes on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:54:00 PST

The Woes on ilike

Yep - I'll be uploading some videos to ilike in the next couple of days as well as one here on our myspace, but hey variety is something on a tv show.check it: http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Woes
Posted by the woes on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:56:00 PST

Bi Weekly Podcast on East Village Radio

Osei Essed of The Woes hosts Loisada Cultural Wire every other week on East Village Radio.You can listen live on Mondays from 12-2 at eastvillageradio.com - In fact Osei will be there this coming Mon...
Posted by the woes on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:35:00 PST

Philly

It has been our intention for some time now to play our music in the great American city of Philadelphia. If you think you can help us to make this happen, we'd love to hear from you!
Posted by the woes on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:54:00 PST

alleluh

just a quick note: alleluh is now actually alleluh. previous to today i had apparently uploaded "heaven knows" twice. enjoy!
Posted by the woes on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:25:00 PST

Sooner than you know: New Sounds, Photos Videos

Hello there my woefull compatriots. As I write, I am listening to a recording of Arlene by Frank Wartinger made at this years Culture Shock at SUNY Purchase. For those of you in the know, there's no n...
Posted by the woes on Tue, 08 May 2007 06:09:00 PST

Glory at Sea

Glad to let you folks know that our song "Thats' All Goodnight" is to be featured in a film by court 13, a film production company based in New Orleans. The script and trailer look A-1 and I must say ...
Posted by the woes on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:44:00 PST

Going For Broke/WFMU

You need Real Player to listen to this:The Woes on Plug&Play with our good friend OCDJ. This is us live on WFMU on June 3rd of 2006. You need Real Player to listen. We're the first of the three acts. ...
Posted by the woes on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:41:00 PST

Osei on EVR

Hey again. Twice in a day is pretty exciting! The show is called Loisada Cultural Wire, its host is Luis Cancel, other guest were Grammy Winning Producer Joel Thome and an amazing instillation artist ...
Posted by the woes on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:32:00 PST