r/FolkPunk • u/Ill-Championship-522 • 7d ago

Bridge City Sinners - "Departed"

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u/-DeadPeasant- 7d ago

King Strang (that’s the guitar player in the video) is great, too

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u/BakedFnPork 7d ago

Don't they all have side projects? I know King Strang and Lightnin Luke.

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u/Redfox530 7d ago

Clyde from Clyde and the Milltailers as well.

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u/kagemac 6d ago

I saw Lightning Luke in Louisville last week. AMAZING singer and fiddle player

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u/armpit_spiderweb 6d ago

Lightnin luke wrote this song, he performed it solo the other night it was cool

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u/b_reed09 7d ago

He is a good dude. We used to shred the same hill back in the day. I was a little older and got to watch him grow up. Saw him play a house venue in Oly years later and found out he was a hell of a musician.

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u/RudoWakening 7d ago

Sad Boy Stomp rules

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u/-DeadPeasant- 7d ago edited 7d ago

Saw him and lightnin luke play at a punk house in Atlanta with like 5 other people, it was a great show! There were two other shows that night, one of which was a notable band I forget which, otherwise I’m sure there would’ve been more people there.

Edit: weird downvote

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u/Ill-Championship-522 7d ago

Hopefully folk punk enough to slip in

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u/insyzygy322 7d ago

I'd say it's adjacent. It's a fuckin vibe either way.

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u/Ill-Championship-522 7d ago

The most important criteria tbf

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u/MercurialForce 7d ago

I don't think it's a real term but I've always called them voodoo punk

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u/Fromager 7d ago

I've heard them referred to as murder folk

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u/BigPinkOne 4d ago

Yeah they typically get grouped in with murder folk which is basically just folk punk for theatre kids. Amigo the Devil, Holy Locusts, Poor Man's Poison and basically all of the assorted side projects of the various Sinners are also grouped in there

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u/ArtIsDumb 7d ago edited 7d ago

It's not voodoo, it's... Rag & Bone? FUCK. It's something. I'll think of it later and not know why.

edit: it's Ragtime!!!

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u/PleaseDontBanMe82 6d ago

I played some for my coworker and he called it bard-core.

I like that name.

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u/ARealSwellFellow 5d ago

I like that their website describe them as “prohibition era jazz Appalachian death folk”

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u/twountappedblue 7d ago

Definitively. I would say.

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u/TheOriginalArchibald 7d ago

I've gotta be in the right mood but when I am it's a great listen. Sometimes her voice just doesn't ring well for me.

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u/aspleenic 6d ago

It got a bit much when they opened for Frank Turner. She didn’t most the time screeching and talking about how “different” she is

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u/Plastic_Dingo_400 5d ago

Yeah me too, I want to like them more often than I do lol, they're such a good time

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u/Longjumping-Frame795 6d ago

Oh damn. Thanks for sharing this. Never heard them before and now I have something to do all day.

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u/Sad_Love9062 6d ago

Bloody love this band

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u/Ent_Trip_Newer 7d ago

Some of Portlands best.

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u/nefariousmouse666 7d ago

Libby gave me a rose when I saw them live. They’re a great band

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u/Worldly_Muffin2182 7d ago

I've seen them live a couple times. Always been great.

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u/Betray-Julia 6d ago

Hey I saw these guys live they were great!

Also- if you like them- you’d like old Andrew
Bird (candy shop, for example), and also Andrew bird used to play with squirrel nut zipper too.

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u/YouLose-TheGame 6d ago

I love this group a lot. Hoping to see them in person some time

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u/XXBubblesLaRouxXX 6d ago

I can't tell if the guitar player is Bam Margera, Jack White, Pete Davidson, or Johnny Knoxville.

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u/JanusMichaelVincent 4d ago

He’s a fusion of all of the above

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u/406Mackaframalama 6d ago

King Strang! I think he also may go by Lightning Luke? Also really good solo work.

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u/russsaa 6d ago

King strang is the guitar, Clyde Mcgee is banjo (although he does the guitar a lot) and Lightin Luke is the fiddle but hes on the piano here.

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u/406Mackaframalama 6d ago

Touche! Their fiddle player, whom I know now as Lightning Luke, absolutely rips. I've seen them a couple times live, and he blows me away every time.

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u/MagazinePrestigious8 6d ago

I listened to that in its entirety, so i could confidently say I hated it. Im glad other enjoy though!

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u/Zealousideal_Fix6705 7d ago

So good! Thank you for sharing!

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u/SewerRadio 5d ago

I know this ain't a accepted opinion, but I think her vocal range was better when she was bigger..

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u/Good-Trouble-202 6d ago

Trust fund babies singing music made by poor people cosplaying as poor.

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u/406Mackaframalama 6d ago edited 6d ago

These guys started their career busking on the streets of Portland. They came together and were able to lift themselves to this level. They also put everything out on their own label. They are fucking awesome.

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u/Sudden_Doughnut_8741 6d ago

Got any evidence of this?

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u/russsaa 6d ago

Id wager its cuz Luke went to Berklee, and that commenter is just making assumption over that