Louis missouri comes a wonderfully fresh and quirky kind of pop music that combines a riverboat ragtime sound with delta meets appalachia songwriting all laid down in front of a big big swingin beat.
Pokey lafarge riverboat soul vinyl.
It was one of the best live music performances i ve been to.
It was the first time i heard him.
Third man records 0 2015.
Riverboat soul is an offering from pokey lafarge and the south city three that defies the wisdom of the manufactured acts.
These guys are skilled versatile musicians and pokey is a charismatic entertainer.
The man singing these songs isn t exactly the same man who wrote them says pokey lafarge of rock bottom rhapsody his eighth and latest studio release this album is about the story of who i used to be.
Number 3 was pokey lafarge the same day as number 1.
I purchased this album at pokey s performance in cambridge ma.
Pokey is a young man with an old soul.
They hail from st louis but spend most of the year criss crossing the us bringing their brand of riverboat soul to those of us unfortunate enough not to have been born by the banks of the mississippi.
Pokey lafarge born 1983 is an american musician and songwriter focusing on the american roots genre.
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This is determindly acoustic and backwards looking more jimmie rodgers than hank williams in the tempo if not the song writing.
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Pokey lafarge the south city three riverboat soul from st.
It took a couple of listens before i defined exactly what label i could give it.
As of 2013 he tours with a 5 piece band consisting of joey glynn bass adam hoskins guitar ryan koenig harmonica washboard and snare drum tj muller cornet trombone and chloe feoranzo clarinet saxophone.
In 2017 pokey lafarge played hank snow in the cmt series sun records.
This was number 2.
Number 1 was jack white at the newport folk festival in newport rhode island.