So for all of you who like a little bit of old-time meets honky tonk, let me introduce you to:
THE SWEETBACK SISTERS
Now I'm going to share their music in just a second. But let me tell you: This little band just finished 2nd place out of 700 bands in a talent show. Okay, but guess which one? The PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION talent show, as in the radio show hosted by Garrison Keillor on NPR with an average weekly listenership of 4 million people!!! Snap, snap!
Now for fun trivia, Emily Miller, left, attended Brown. She also lived with me (or rather I squatted at her apartment, which she happened to be sharing with her good friend and my soon to be free-rent giving boyfriend Sam). And she taught me all I know about playing the fiddle (which is unfortunately not that much because I don't have a teacher anymore). AND she grew up spending several weeks every summer at the Augusta workshops in my tiny hometown of Elkins. Strangely enough for a town of 7,000 people, I didn't meet her until after I moved to Providence. AND STILL MORE, after I meet Emily, she totally went back to Elkins to find a super-duper, guitar-picking, fiddle-cracking, harmony-yowling man, Jesse Milnes, right. To make matters even more fun, Jesse grew up about a block and a half away from my home. I probably splashed around in the creek (read "crick") with that boy.
I know you are bored, it's just that the world is so small, kind of makes me think you are all robots, and I'm in the Truman Show or something (God, I'm old and lame to reference that one). SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... without further adieu, I invite you to click on the following links to discover just about the freshest band I've heard in a decade: The Sweetback Sisters.
First click below to hear their music:
http://www.myspace.com/thesweetbacksisters
Click here for their blog:
http://www.thesweetbacksisters.com
And then click on the video to watch Garrison Keillor at get creepy yet wonderful with the band:
Now I'm going to share their music in just a second. But let me tell you: This little band just finished 2nd place out of 700 bands in a talent show. Okay, but guess which one? The PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION talent show, as in the radio show hosted by Garrison Keillor on NPR with an average weekly listenership of 4 million people!!! Snap, snap!
Now for fun trivia, Emily Miller, left, attended Brown. She also lived with me (or rather I squatted at her apartment, which she happened to be sharing with her good friend and my soon to be free-rent giving boyfriend Sam). And she taught me all I know about playing the fiddle (which is unfortunately not that much because I don't have a teacher anymore). AND she grew up spending several weeks every summer at the Augusta workshops in my tiny hometown of Elkins. Strangely enough for a town of 7,000 people, I didn't meet her until after I moved to Providence. AND STILL MORE, after I meet Emily, she totally went back to Elkins to find a super-duper, guitar-picking, fiddle-cracking, harmony-yowling man, Jesse Milnes, right. To make matters even more fun, Jesse grew up about a block and a half away from my home. I probably splashed around in the creek (read "crick") with that boy.
I know you are bored, it's just that the world is so small, kind of makes me think you are all robots, and I'm in the Truman Show or something (God, I'm old and lame to reference that one). SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... without further adieu, I invite you to click on the following links to discover just about the freshest band I've heard in a decade: The Sweetback Sisters.
First click below to hear their music:
http://www.myspace.com/thesweetbacksisters
Click here for their blog:
http://www.thesweetbacksisters.com
And then click on the video to watch Garrison Keillor at get creepy yet wonderful with the band:
