Huh-Yoooge! The Bandit Kings are back from LA!

Hello lovely Banditos, we meet again…

When last we spoke, The Bandit Kings were just about to get a stellar review from Francis DiMenno in The Noise, Boston. Here’s a snippet:

“…These musicians are no ironists, camp followers, or genre clowns; rather than treating country as a bad joke, they take the genre, and their work, quite seriously indeed, enough to make even a jaded connoisseur want to really like them, and the care they have put into their debut collection is proof. I am even willing to stick my neck out onto the chopping block—something I’ve done about half a dozen times in the last twenty-six years-—and venture that these guys have the potential to be huge. Not lower-case “h” huge, but Huh-yooooge.“

This month marks The Bandit’s one-year anniversary as a band (they’ve been friends a lot longer—awww) and to celebrate, the BKs just returned from a STELLAH trip to LA where we were treated to warm breezes and purple mountain majesties…the show at The Mint was amazing and we want to extend special warm thank you’s to Rebecca at Lovestruck Productions (you rock), the awesome staff at The Mint, the fiendish fiddler, Danny Graziani, Nelson Bragg , Mr. Skip Hart for, well a lot of things, our friends and families who flew with us from Boston; everyone who flew from other cities; and of course all our friends from the LA-area who braved the 405 just make it to the show. THANK YOU.

Ann Marie says:  “The trip was such a great experience. We were so proud to bring some fresh Gloucester air to the west coast and show LA what we are made of.”

We’ve got some awesome shows coming up soon:

• like, Dennis Monagle’s Wednesday Night Showcase @ LAT 43°s Minglewood Tavern on Wednesday, February 16 at 9pm (free);

• and The Rhumbline this Saturday, February 19 at 9pm with guest drummer Mr. Dave Mattacks (KBMG, Paul MaCartney, Roseanne Cash), free;

• and then there’s the show at the Dolphin Striker in Portsmouth, NH on Friday, March 11 at 9pm (free);

There are trip photos and more dates at www.banditkings.com

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Renee Dupuis on lead vocals and keys, Ann Marie, also on lead vocals, Dennis Monagle on drums, Joe Cardoza on bass, and Dan King on lead guitar. The Bandit Kings’ play original tunes written by the band members and hot b-sides by classic artists for longer shows. They have found bare-bones musical chemistry, including the rich meld of vocalists Ann Marie and Dupuis, who “both have voices that bring us back to the dawn of country rock, whisky soaked and raspy in just the right places while never crossing into the overpowering. The song is a rare treat that could have been tossed aside as a boring anachronism in less capable hands.” -Boston Band Crush

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