![]() He plays acoustic antique resonator National Steel guitars, and sings his own unique arrangements of rags, jazz, & blues songs from the 20s & 30s, folksongs, and many originals with wordplay, humor, and throat singing.'. Like all sufficiently advanced technology, the chord is indistinguishable from magic,Īnd like magic, a little misstep can backfire spectacularly.īut when they hit that chord just right, it can dispel the fog and mist and reveal wild originality growing right in front of you. 'Baby Gramps is a high energy humorously entertaining performer with an endless repertoire. Three For Silver does not know this chord, nor have they any interest in learning it.īut they have their own secret chord they've been working on. The good book tells us of a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the lord. The band has hit the road since 2013, and their monomaniacal devotion has already led them all over the USA and the world, from Accordion Festivals in Vienna to Modern Music Expos in Russia, and even partnering with the US State Department for ongoing cultural exchange tours to countries thirsty for truly original American music. Three For Silver features one-of-a-kind instruments you've never seen playing styles mixed in ways you've never heard. ![]() ![]() Some of those are pretty good, but they still just feel like the desperate necessities of someone forced to fill out a form labelled "genre". PR people often use phrases like Mythic Americana, Doomfolk, or Apocalypso. He plays acoustic antique resonator National Steel guitars, and sings his own unique arrangements of rags, jazz, & blues songs from the 20's & 30's, folksongs, and many originals with wordplay, humor, and throat singing. Baby Gramps toured Australia, England, and Ireland as part of the Rogues Gallery CD Concert Tour with Tim Robbins (actor), Marianne Faithful, Lou Reed, Martin Carthy, Suzanne Vega, Ralph Steadman, and many other internationally known performers. It's an aggressively original band that is impervious to easy description. Baby Gramps is a high energy humorously entertaining performer with an endless repertoire. Three For Silver is a tatterdemalion ensemble of rotating musicians led by Lucas Warford, “the acid baby of Tom Waits and Les Claypool,” as NW legend Baby Gramps called him.
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