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The Powder
Kegs
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The Powder Kegs play rock & roll
like back before it meant anything.
Sam McDougle (drums, fiddle, noise),
Daniel Zane (guitars and vocals) and
Ryan Dieringer (basses, piano, and
vocals) first played together in a
bluegrass band when they were kids.
They called it the Wayside Buccs.
They thought it was pretty sweet,
but soon decided that they wanted to
play "old-time" music instead of
bluegrass. They picked up a couple
other guys, Jake Hoffman and Peter
Winne, and started "The Powder
Kegs,” a bonafide old-time string
band. They enjoyed street performing
and getting people dancing up and
down the coast in bars, clubs, and
festivals. They were such a good
string band that in the spring of
2007 they were invited to perform
live on Garrison Keillor's 'A
Prairie Home Companion' as finalists
in its "People in Their 20's"
contest and they won. The following
summer and fall, PHC's best band in
their 20's busked and played shows
up and down the coast, amassing a
repertoire of eclectic and
innovative original material that
they brought with them to the Hudson
Valley of New York. There they set
off to record their first
all-original studio album with help
of local producer Jeremy Backofen,
combining elements of rock and jazz
into their established understanding
of traditional American folk music.
That record, "you & your right now",
was recorded during an intense month
long winter session in a makeshift
live-in studio-cabin in the woods of
High Falls, NY. It’s dropping in a
few weeks. They guarantee you will
like it. This summer, the band will
be getting back to its “trio” roots
as Jake and Pete return to their
normal lives, & the Kegs (Dan, Sam &
Ryan) tour throughout the eastern
states playing songs off the record,
new songs, and whatever else
comes to mind.
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Frank Hoier
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Captain Coconut is steamy horn-driven funk
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contagious, inviting, upbeat presence; they
are what live music is supposed to be: a
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