Artist description The Union City All Stars are from another planet. Several men sent here from deep inner-space on a mission to mine solar gas only found around planets with lots of pollution...........but something went terribly wrong! Now they play this strange brew of country rock music in Eastern and Central Kentucky.

Music Style Country, rock, blues, bluegrass, rap, jazz, polka, trashcans.

Musical Influences Gram Parsons to the Pixies, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Wang Chung. Lloyd the Captain from the planet Visstar, VerramEton from VerramOton (its a very distant galaxy), U and DZ from Open Space......You name it.

Similar Artists wilco, uncle tupelo, blue mountain, pixies, tom waits, gram parsons, sonvolt, the jayhawks, willie nelson, hank williams, pogues,prince

Artist History In 1989, The All-Stars 'now missing' space craft crashed about 20 miles south of Lexington Kentucky. After realizing that there was not a whole hell of a lot they could do (thats what the mechanic said), they began going to the bluegrass festivals and rock shows, not to mention the brew pubs, all throughout the area and decided that if they were stuck here they were going to play music! In 1999 UCAS signed a record deal with a small Kentucky Indie Label, Hello Records, but have since dissappeared without a sign. Rumors have flown wild and it is now known that shortly before they disappeared they were in touch with several international government agencies. They were last spotted playing at a private party for the president (we dont know which president) but it is thought they will never be seen again!

Group Members The members were using a variety of names, mostly taken from very famous folks in the past........John Wayne, George Washington, Jesus Jones, E.T., Ghandi Jones(apparently they liked the Jones name pretty well)....

Instruments guitar, electric guitar, bass, drums, accordian, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, steel guitar, dobro,harmonica and fender rhodes piano

Albums '8 Tracks' 'A little Slower' 'Commonwealth of Country'(unreleased)

Press Reviews 'There's a real down-home feel... like when you stumble into a run-downbar to find the best band you've ever heard' - AutoReverse--------- 'I like the shit out of the Union City All-Stars' - Robbie Fulks -------- 'The songs speak to you, speak to you in the way good country music should' - Paul Fletcher, On the Edge Magazine -------------------- 'I love the All-Stars... great harmonies too' - Bill Mallonee, Vigilantes of Love (check out the Bill Malonie and VOL at www.billandvol.com) 'Kentucky is the home of Bill Monroe, bluegrass music and the Union City All Stars..' - Tone Man, Alt Country Central................. 'The tunes easily slip and slide through the speakers' - Heidi Drockelman, Indie-Music.com ---------------------------------------------------- 'The Union City All Stars will some day grace the cover of No Depression if they keep on keepin' on' - Listen.com 'I thought they were my favorite band of all time, until I saw the singer cut his hand and it started spraying out this green kind of stuff' - Clayton Smits

Additional Info http://ucas.iuma.com

Location Bluegrass, Kentucky - USA

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