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The Deadly Gentlemen @ WagonWheel Presents...
The Payroll Union + Dave Sleney
Presented by: WagonWheel Presents...| 0 | SHEFFIELD: The Greystones |
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| P | Monday 26th March, 2012 |
| N | 7:30pm |
Event information
On Monday March 26th, WagonWheel Presents... welcomes The Deadly Gentlemen to The Greystones. Starting out as an experimental spoken word bluegrass band, they developed to mostly play "epic folk and grasscore".
There are five band members: Greg Liszt (also of Crooked Still and Bruce Springsteen's Seegar Sessions band), banjo and vocals; Stash Wyslouch, guitar and vocals; Mike Barnett, fiddle and vocals; Dominick Leslie, mandolin and vocals; and Sam Grisman, double bass and vocals.
Instead of having a lead singer, they use a nonstop orchestration of somewhat unconventional vocals, with everybody in the band doing everything they can. Expect a lot of three-part harmony singing, group shouting, really dense rhymes and an almost rap-like phrasing.
Most of the songs on their new CD are reinventions of traditional folk songs, but you might not notice that if you weren't a big folk music enthusiast.
There's a murder ballad (done acoustic death metal style), a song about moonshining, a rockabilly blues, and a rewrite of an old-time song about the police coming to get you. There are also a couple songs about the ups and downs of living the dream - you know, playing music.
The songs have kind of a rock 'n' roll feel, despite the acoustic bluegrass instrumentation. The melodies tend toward the anthemic side, and the upright bass is usually pretty in-your-face. The album does have a slight sense of humor but no real jokes, per se.
A lot of the songs' lyrics started out as miniature epic poems based on folk songs. That's where the term "epic folk" comes from. The grasscore songs are the ones where everybody in the band throws caution to the wind and goes completely berserk. Kind of the punk or hardcore mentality, but applied to bluegrass.
http://www.deadlygentlemen.com/
Support comes from The Payroll Union and Dave Sleney. Doors open 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
http://www.thepayrollunion.com
http://www.reverbnation.com/davesleney
http://www.wagonwheelmedia.co.uk
Venue information
SHEFFIELD: The Greystones| 0 | Greystones Road Sheffield S11 7BS |
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| > | www.mygreystones.co.uk/ |
| ` | Live music begins 15 minutes after doors |
