A Piedmont-style blues trio seeking enlightenment from early 20th century music, including vaudeville and medicine show tunes, Depression-era blues, old-time country, spirituals and the like.
For more info on booking the band email [email protected]
Member Since: 7/29/2006
Band Website: www.gravysoppers.net
Band Members:
Vladimir, the Alabama Stringbreaker: vocals, guitars, fiddle, spoons, fawdies, black & milds, hammer and sickle
WC: upright bass, backing vocals, HI-FI, FEEDBACK DESTROYER, shears
Alabama Ernie Ford: mandolins, vocals, grunts, growls and shrieks, plain blue t-shirts w/pocket
Dr. Soppa: Sopper Emeritus
Influences:
Various no-hit wonders of the 1920s, '30s & '40s, Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, Bo Carter, the Original Carter Family, Mance Lipscomb, Blind Joe Death, Blind Willie McTell (and all the other Blind So-and-Sos), Son House, Memphis Minnie, Joni Mitchell, Loretta Lynn, Loretta Swit, Mississippi John Hurt, Motorhead, Memphis Jug Band, Gus Cannon, Hank Williams Sr., Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, Mastodon, Nick Drake, Slayer, NPR, NWA, Conway Twitty, Yo Yo Ma, Roy Smeck, John Hartford, Cliff Richard, David Hasselhoff, Yo La Tengo, R. Crumb & the Cheap Suit Serenaders, Dead Kennedys, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Ry Cooder, Jaybird Coleman, Big Bill Broonzy, Rev. Gary Davis, Gillian Welch, Roy Bookbinder, Dr. Soppa, Willie Nelson, The Exploited, Bill Monroe, the Delmore Brothers, Iron Maiden, RL Burnside.