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The Coal Porters
When: Wednesday 21st January 2009 - 7pm - 11.30pm
Where: The Globe, 125 Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff CF24 3NS
Formed eighteen years ago in Los Angeles the Coal Porters were originally an electric rock group centred around native Kentuckian Sid Griffin, the ex-Long Ryder who wrote the hit single “Looking For Lewis And Clark”. Exchanging a home in Los Angeles for one in London in February 1992 Griffin’s original Coal Porters enjoyed indie chart success in the UK and Europe and toured frequently.
When Griffin finished his production duties on Lindisfarne’s comeback album ‘Here Comes The Neighbourhood’, he found himself inspired by that band’s acoustic instrumentation and was also the proud new owner of a mandolin. With that mandolin the acoustic, bluegrass Coal Porters were born, and bluegrass music received a very real shot in the arm as the band’s roots in punk and rockabilly gave their music an edge, and the genre of “alt-bluegrass” was born.
Support comes from Local band Zervas & Pepper www.myspace.com/paulzervas
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