Artist description A stompin', hollerin', junkyard clank of a sweet front-porch, summer storytelling revival. Sometimes three, sometimes five, the band mixes traditional and non-traditional instrumentation for their unique style.

Music Style Junkyard Folk

Musical Influences Beatles, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Lyle Lovett

Artist History Formerly with Mercury Records' alternative rock band, The Lounge Flounders, they redefined to a more mature and eclectic sound in the mid 90's.

Group Members Kevin Murphy, Clay Steakley, Chip Jordan

Instruments Acoustic guitar, dobro and upright bass, stomp box, pots and pans, marimba, cello, drunken monkeys on squeezeboxes

Press Reviews Rick de Yampert, The Tennessean, 8/06/99, "The members of the Nashville band Canebrake Quartet call their music "a blend of junkyard folk, Celtic swirl and old-time religion." To this we'd add the lads' junkyard may be located in Sgt. Pepper's garden, where lots of gorgeously gothic, Beatle-esque cello work in tandem with acoustic guitars on the band's CD.Not trad folk but certainly not alterna-folk, Canebrake Quartet crafts arresting soundscapes that seem moody without being surly, mellow without being drowsy." --- Park Ellis, Sensored Magazine, 11/99, "Nashville's Canebrake Quartet doesn't just write pop songs, they dig out stories from their hiding places."

Location Nashville, TN - USA

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