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****************UPDATE***************** Show has been moved to 40 WATT club due to stormy weather
LINE UP/TIMES (sub to change):
Old time pickin circle: 5:00-7:00
The Orange Twin Family Band: 7:00
Art Rosenbaum: 8:00
The Shoal Creek Stranglers: 9:00
The Darnell Boys: 10:00
The Athens Cowboy Choir: 11:00
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**UPDATE** Show has been moved to 40 WATT club due to stormy weather
GF006 is in the works, we believe it may be the long awaited premiere release of THE ICE CREAMS material. Or not, Tyme Shall Yell. GF film editor Qik Asawhyp assembled this video last minute for “MY FRIEND FRANK”
In a last minute surprise message that washed up on the banks of Shoal Creek just moments ago, a note read : “SCS to perform Tonight in Athens, GA at The Secret Swamp / 11pm – donate for the touring bands!”
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View / Share this video of the Stranglers performing “WHERE DO YOU GO WHEN YOU DIE?” last Saturday night at Bluegrass Express in Hartwell GA / Thanks Andrew for video
There’s a gruesome treat brewing up for you and your finest feline, this Saturday night at the GO BAR on Prince Ave. Opening the show, we have MOTHER THE CAR (fresh with stacks of their new Gypsy EP!) followed by our mothers from other utters, UNCLE SKUNKLE will be dropping in from Murfreesboro, TN to raise hell (with a temper to match!) Don’t miss their satanic version of SURFIN BYRD! Closing out the magical evening will be Athens’ originals CARS CAN BE BLUE reminding you that love can be pain, pain can be fun and fun can be blue, what are you gonna do. Don’t miss Nate Mitchell’s organic Belt-Whipping.
Doors 9 / Show 10
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Check out CCBB’s video of “Do You Remember”
http://youtu.be/oYYnlrYmNKA
Creeping into the year [2013], conjured up from the thick Georgia fog, we are pleased to bring you the OLD SMOKEY 7″ [GF005]
“Soothing”, “Strange” and “Stringy” could be the first impression of veteran gypsy ears, geared and callused from our previous “Rock, Raw and Pop” releases, this [OS 7″] marks the dizzy dawn of what we like to call our “country Strange” sector, by-way of the Gory Gospel truth being, that this fine piece of wax was summoned up, smoked out -if you will, in the summer months of 2012 by Athens native, Jim Willingham (Ham1, Infinity Cat Recordings).
Nestled comfortably behind a banjo, matched with his lyrical approach (for lack of more fitting slang) – melodies are plucked straight out of the mind’s darkest neighborhoods. Fellow stringers Jacob Morris, John Fernandes, Jason Trahan and Robert Lomax join in together, forming a mysterious musical cloud composing of strings, woodwinds and a 70+ year aged bass drum head.
Old Smokey’s debut 7″ release bares three-KUTS with Side A’s opener “Lazy Eye”, which sounds as if it were originally featured on “The Wickerman” Soundtrack (1973), but some how, rather found itself reincarnated -falling through the laws of time. . . and landing on your turntable, here in this strange modern world.
Allow your senses to fall into the cradle that is “The Natural”, the instrumental stand out of the release, hypnotizing at moments signaled ahead by bells, haunted by whistles.
The B side is totally consumed in the whopping 5+ min trance titled “Weeping Willow” – perhaps the most somber of the the three selections, featuring rhythmic “trap-doors of change” that complete the knot in this tangled memory of bliss.
Special editions of the 7″ will include an inner CD Sleeve (with art designed by Fernandes’ son) that includes Exxxtra tracks for your own exxxtended adventure into the mystical haze that is Old Smokey.
WJAY / Jan 18th 2013
BUY THE 7″ from GF store
ORRR why not go get one from the band in person?! That’s right chyld, they’re playing the 7″ RELEASE PARTY tonight at Athens’ newest venue, The World Famous, more info below :
Saturday, Feb 2nd 200013 thee infamous Shoal Creek Stranglers are to be ‘Stringin and Singin” at JOANS PLACE – (out on Old Hwy 29 in Hartwell, GA) at 11AM-SO SHARP! Special Guests include her honorableness, Judge T. Brown and the HART Huggers / bee theree
Here we have the Stranglers performing a Roger Miller tune, last year at Jack’s Picking Parlor // Williamston, SC
One year ago, three houses in Athens GA were overran by a musical orgy of Garage Raw, Pop, Punk and Strange – and it was known as “RODNEY LUTHER KING / GYPSY FARM FEST” and despite last year’s noise violation SIGH’TATION, we’re happy to say it will be happening again for the 2nd annual time– and we’ve added a 4th night!
SSStarting THIS THURSDAY night at FLICKER Barin downtown Athens, followed by Freaky Fryday at the FARM 255 before moving over to Tibbett St on Saturday, ending with the Secret SWAMP on Sunday, SUNDAY.
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Line up / Schedule : (this will get CHEWED, as always)
Jan10 / THURSDAY Flicker Bar Flick-Off party
Hand Sand Hands
Bubbly Mommy Gun
Black moon
Jan11/ FRYDAY at Farm 255
Glass Crafts
Pretty bird
Jamaican Queens
K(v)ids
Bubbly Mommy Gun (part II)
Jan12 / SATURDAY MNT Wyatt/Tibbetts Train-Tracks-Party
Timmy Tumble n the Tumbletons
Ritvals
Sad Dads
Woodfangs
Dana Swimmer
Days of Beyond Thunder
Velocirapture
Nurture
Jan13 / SUNDAY at the Secret SWAMP
The Rodney Kings
Get High Boys
Pussy Pussy
Mr Clit and the Pink Cigarettes
Coombsbot
Murkdaddy Flex ft. Ricky Digits making his debut to the game
***SUPER SECRET after-PPParty show next door at the Secret Squirrel with***
The HUMMS
Bubbly Mommy Gun (part III)
Darkminster
IT’s ALL REAL, IT’s ALL GOOD, IT’s ALL HAPPENIN
Do you feel lost? Are you in search of GFRK 2013? Have a question?
DON’T FRET! CALL THE GYPSY HOT LINE!
1-714-8764881
and we’ll SEE YEW THERE
We’re kickin in 2013. The GFR Travelin’ Variety Show (of-sorts) will be making TWO stops this weekend, first appearing (Friday) in Savannah, GA at the JINX with local cats NICHE only before heading up-stream the following evening (Saturday) to Augusta, GA’s famous SOUL BAR (Goodgod). Join us as we burn gravel from the sea shore all the way to the Godfathers’ door step.
GYPSY-Bands between these bills include (but not on both shows!) The HUMMS, The RODNEY KINGS, Timmy Tumble and the Tumblers and Koko BEWARE.
Official Event Page for Savannah Show
Official Event Page for Augusta Show
Also, stay-TOONED for next weekend’s activities when the GFR / Rodney Luther King Jr Fest CONTINUES into it’s second year! We’ll be spinnin this in the mean-time :
Athens, GA folk sensation “Old Smokey” (members of Ham1, Moths and Olivia Tremor Control) will be making their debut release on GYPSY FARM wax. More info coming soon, head on over to their GF PLAYER and cast an ear.
Mean/while, these VINYL titles are available in the store for CHEAP/YAW:
THE RODNEY KINGS / IRENE / 7″
THE HUMMS / DTAD / 7″
THE HUMMS / LEMONLAND / 12″ LP
MUUY BIIEN / KNIFE FIGHTS / 7″
BEACH FEVER / TMT / 12″ LP
GYPNOSIS / GF Bands Compilation / 12″ LP
QUAILBONES / ST / 7″
We leave you with the all mightly and all good LOS MEESFITS
The Shoal Creek Stranglers will be “appearing” before your very eyes and ears this Saturday night in Murray, KY at Terrapin Station Record Store along with some top-Kentuckian music folk — THE JACKSON PURCHASE and SECULAR PETS.
Following this, catch them strangling down at THE STONE FOX in NASHVILLE, TN the next evening (SUNDAY FOOL)
GF’s own Dubya Jay will be on the shoals of thee scene this weekend, covering the Stranglers’ travels. Come out and enjoy the rare Bluegrass, Gospel and Country tunes performed by Zeke Sayer and Matthew Garrison (of THE HUMMS)
Enjoy and SHARE this video from fall 2011 of SCS performing “Down In The Ground” outside of GF HQ
Gypsy Farm Network 