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SUNDAY 19 JUNE 2011
Hello, everyone.
We are delighted to announce that Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three will be available for a month of touring in the UK from June 14 to
July 14. This follows the success of the band's six-week tour in Summer, 2010.
They blew everyone away at their own headline show at Scotland’s prestigious Celtic Connections Festival, and that led to appearances at big outdoor summer events in America and Europe, including Newport Folk Festival, Denmark’s Tonder Festival, England’s Big Chill event, Leicester’s Summer Sundae Weekender, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Belfast’s big Open House event.
Influential mag, The List said: “Go, be delighted." Americana UK simply urged readers: “Book your seats now.”
On its release, the new album went straight to the Number 5 slot on the American FAR indie roots chart, stormed the Top Ten of the Americana UK chart as well and entered the Red Lick Blues and R&B Chart, published by fRoots magazine.
Acoustic magazine said it was “no-holds-barred, honest-to-goodness sheet-kicking music of the highest order,” and Mojo complimented the band on their “immaculate period atmosphere”.
The four-piece, from St Louis, Missouri, was hailed as one of the outstanding highlights at Newport Folk Festival, prompting the big-circulation Spin magazine to nominate them as “the best discovery” of the entire event.
The band is currently as hot as it gets.
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If you were luckly enough to see the Sell Out at The Albert back in January, then I'm sure you'll want to spend some time with the boys again. It was a blast of a night and not only for the exciting playing and great singing ..... whichever way you looked at it ... it was TOP ENTERTAINMENT. Pokey and the boys are over here again, this time for the Summer Sundae Weekender in Leicester and for a FIVE night run at The Edinburgh Festival. Catch them in a nice small gig while you can! |
“Lawd knows we need people like Pokey LaFarge. Coming on like a bastard son of Woody Guthrie and Blind Blake, this is the kind of stuff Ry Cooder’s been trying to do for decades: no-holds-barred, honest-to-goodness sheet-kicking music of the highest order. Pokey’s forte are hot little vignettes like Walk Your Way Out Of This Town and I Don’t Mind Dyin’, dusty slices of timeless Americana coloured with peeping harmonica and blasting kazoo.A lo-fi gem from an, as yet, unsung troubadour” Julian Piper, Acoustic magazine, UKhttp://www.pokeylafarge.net/ HAVE A LISTEN |
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LaFarge was born in the heartland of America and took to the open
roads at a young age, earning the key to the freedom by hitching
rides and writing boxcar ballads that spun tales of a boy finding
his way through this big wide-open country. He submerged himself
with the most American of music and embraced himself in the beauty
of the land while picking and strumming with down-home groups everywhere
he went, falling in with traveling caravans of vaudeville poets
and hell-raising bluegrass pickers alike.
In true rambler fashion, LaFarge does not look back; he looks only forward on the next road ready approaching with his guitar in his hand and his voice ready to fly. His influence is deeply rooted in the heroes and misfits of yesterday; the long lost troubadours of country, the kings of swamp-drentched ragtime, and all the legendary bluesmen of the Cotton Kingdom. The result is a boiling pot of American cultures; a wonderfully fresh and quirky kind of pop music that combines delta-meets-appalachia song-writing with a big, big beat. Even though the songs were birthed in the hills and country towns of old America, don’t call it old-timey; LaFarge is here to grace it into this modern and electric world. Along with his refreshing take on tradition, Pokey brings his irresistible charm and genuinely romantic outlook on, not only subjects such as the rivers and the land itself, but universal topics such as love, death, and real adventure. With a firm grasp on personal freedom and Shakespearean insight on humanity, Pokey remains one of the very few folks who consistently turn the abstract into a concrete reality. Music is not just chords and notes and melody. To a person who truly loves music, it is a medium to celebrate this life. For Pokey, every show is a celebration – juke-joint style – where women twirl in their dresses and the fellas stomp their feet and clap their hands. To this day, Mr. LaFarge is still finding tranquility within the yellow highway lines playing up to two-hundred shows a year bringing his music to anyone young and old who is willing to listen. |
Great Pokey LaFarge show at the Albert, my friends and I really enjoyed it. I hope you can get them back in the summer" .. A Customer