Jo Carley & The Old Dry Skulls @ What's Cooking, Leytonstone - 5.2.20
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Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls are returning to What's Cookin' in Leytonstone, London, joining them is special guest Trevor Babajack Steger.
Come down and shake your bones!
JO CARLEY AND THE OLD DRY SKULLS
Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls combine the voodoo rhythms of 1930's ska and the blues with old timey vaudeville cabaret. Music that makes people wanna shake their bones!
Dedicated to the subversive, the world of Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls is dark, animated and unusual. Seeking to amuse and draw the audience into an underworld filled with wonder, the macabre and the imagination they combine elements of Vaudeville, Skiffle, early horror films, early ska, calypso, old-timey country, and the Blues. This trio play a unique hybrid of early 20th Century music infused with dark Cabaret.
The driving force is Tim’s One-man-band set-up with Kick-drum, hi-hat and guitar while Jo’s sweet melodies tell terrible things. This is made even more bewitching as she switches from fiddle to mandolin to washboard. They are joined by James Le Huray on double bass and banjo.
“...a steaming broth of cabaret, blues, ska, Vaudeville, voodoo and skiffle. Horror stories are the main course, with a side orders of sex, trouble, and all-night parties” - Hans Werksman - Here Comes The Flood
“...riffs and rhythms, stomp and tap, crazy woman on vocals you find yourself waiting for her to cast a spell on you” - Alan Pearce - Blues Matters Magazine
TREVOR BABAJACK STEGER
'Howling Wolf meets Screaming Jay Hawkins.....carried on the wings of a wailing slide guitar' - Richard Wall (Blues in Britain)
' ......he has an immediacy and charisma that draws you close to the music and I cannot think of any other solo artist that I’ve heard in the last couple of years who demands your attention in the same way. He makes music that I want to listen to' - Alan Pearce Editor, Blues Matters