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    Artist description
    Hard drivin' honky-tonk for lovers, truckers and jukebox junkies
    Music Style
    Honky-Tonk Country
    Musical Influences
    Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell
    Group Members
    Cella Blue - Vocal; Johnny Smokes - Guitar; Joe McGrath - Guitar, Vocal; Ben Farkas - Fender Bass; Jo-Jo Petersen, Piano, Vocal; William Graham, Jr., Drums; Latest members include: Erin Marie Payne: Vocals; Miff Laracy: Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals; Jerry Rig: Guitar, Vocals; Trevett Hooper, Drums.
    Albums
    Woman's Work, Caution: Swinging Doors
    Press Reviews
    "One of my favorite San Diego bands. A good ol-fashioned honky-tonk group on the order of Austin, Texas' Derailers or San Francisco's Red Meat, the group boasts an arsenal of melodic, memorable originals and front gal Cella Blue, who sings as purty as sh e looks. Blue, whose voice bears some resemblance to Loretta Lynn's but with a warmer tone, richer vibrato and minus the hillbilly twang (thank you for not copping that shtick!), is a bundle of energy and fun in concert. The band rocks hard but doesn't fa ll into the cowpunk rut, letting their energy speak for itself without ever endeavoring to be trendy. Guitarists Johnny Smokes and Joe McGrath know their Buckeroos like the old folks do, pianist Jo-Jo Petersen is no stranger to Floyd Cramer, and it all a dds up to a good, honest night of dancin and beer-swillin."Buddy "Blue" Seigal Orange County Weekly ************************************************************** Man, if I had a beer in front of me right now, I'd be crying into it. The West Coast Pi nups play undiluted, ice filtered, California honky-tonk and are fronted by one Cella Blue, a once-pure voiced fallen angel, ravaged beautifully through too much barroom smoke and a liking for the golden liquor. Well, that’s what she sounds like, and that’s what I’m sticking with. Caution: Swinging Doors is the band’s second album, and there’s no sign of those nasty follow-up jitters, which plague the less talented. Rather, the ‘Pinups really go for it, laying down thirteen self-penned tracks which don’t do anything particularly new but do it damn well all the same. Booze, little white pills and broken hearts are their main themes, all of which are dealt with, with a dash of humour and plenty of beery lyricism, and like the Two Dollar Pistols, I bet they’re even better live. Rob Forbes - Leicester Bangs Magazine (UK) ************************************************************** A fast moving, hard charging dose of blistering honky-tonk is served up by the San Diego based West Coast Pinups on their soph omore release appropriately titled Caution: Swinging Doors. Playing a style of electric driven country that has seemed to personify the California scene beginning as far back as Wynn Stewart and Buck Owens and continuing through Haggard, the various "A To wn South of Bakersfield" compilations and Dwight Yoakam, this righteous slab of the hardcore stuff features the throaty goodness of lead Pinups singer Cella Blue. Backing her is Fender bender Johnny Smokes on lead guitar and the sturdy trio of rhythm gui tarist Joe McGrath, bass player Ben Farkas and drummer Jo-Jo Petersen. The songs, all 13 of them West Coast Pinups originals, are the stuff of smoky, neon lit barrooms where the longnecks are icy cold, where the likes of Hag and Jones occupy promine nt spots on the jukebox, and where the temporary mending of a broken heart is just a sip away. Dan Ferguson – Time Out, Rhode IslandI
    Location
    San Diego, CA - USA

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