Event Details
Date: Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Start Time: 6:00 PM
Event Type: Special Events, 4th of July, Concerts
Last Updated: June 27, 2012
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Shelby Ash PresentsRed,White & MurdergrassA Special Holiday Matinee Show Featuring The Pine Box Boys Colonel Jimmy & The Blackfish The Pine Box Boys Lester t. Raww from arkansas started the pine box boys in 2003, originally planning to perform new renditions of old murder ballad classics like the knoxville girl, and fair eleanor. Soon, however, he found he was composing his own murder ballads, taking many liberties with the form. This lead to their first album, arkansas killing time.in my mind, i wanted something that sounded like willie nelson in a punk band. I even tried to play a nylon-string guitar hoping it would sound like trigger. This did not work. At all. So, i switched to a martin; we sped up the tunes to bluegrass velocities and, well, here we are.None of this explains the emphasis on murder, misery, and zombies. Lester blames this on his mother:she grew up real, real countryouthouse, sears catalog, if you catch my driftso she raised me on all those old songs. Before bed, she would sing me to sleep with such murder ballads as pretty polly, skin and bones lady, and the knoxville girl. She must know ten more verses to that song than anyone ever sings. And she liked horror films. Not so much now, but back in the day . . . Whooo, we watched some scary stuff.Lester fashioned all of this into his unique brand of music: not exactly bluegrassmore like bloodgrass. Bassist colonel timothy leather and drummer steven your uncle dodds joined him in those early days having played with lester in the zag men, a group specializing in performing live soundtracks to old silent horror films.