The Café Cowboys
Biography
Spawned in the hop-reeking pubs and ubiquitous coffee houses scattered throughout Portland’s wide open musical spaces, The Café Cowboys brazenly cut the wires of all musical fences. Vocally anchored in Tin Pan Alley and western swing, the duo might -- without a word of warning -- romp headlong into Klezmer or French cabaret, gypsy jazz or Doo Wop, or their skewed homages to King Tut and The Three Stooges.
Greg McCarty’s musical lineage runs from folk to Beatles, bluegrass to swing, cowboy yodeling to jazz standards. Before moving up from points south, he spear-headed his own western swing band, The Bar X Bunkhouse Boys. When not playing guitar or mandolin or howling at the moon, you might spot this tuneful jack-of-all-trades and general ne’er-do-well lurking after a fat rainbow trout or shooting his cowboy guns.
A
fiddle player of far-ranging talents and a woman of many hats (some of them
sensible), Flauren Ricketts first surfaced musically as a card carrying
member of The 8th Avenue String Band down in Chico, California.
Through many quirks of
fate and hours of laborious study, she wound up doing fifteen years of hard
labor as a college teacher in
Minnesota,
don’t cha know. Released early on good behavior (not that we’ve ever seen it),
she’s dived into Portland’s music scene with a vengeance.
Catch The Café Cowboys. They’re a harmonious hoot.
Contact information:
(503) 679-7420
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