Nice review from David Kidman at the FolkandRoots.co.uk website: Pokey LaFarge hails from Kentucky; he spent his younger years out on the open road, where he became steeped in the music of the heroes and misfits of yesteryear – “the long-lost troubadous of country, the kings of swamp-drenched ragtime and the legendary bluesmen of the [...]

Riverboat Soul has been getting some great reviews in the UK music press. Here are some scans of them. These are print only publications so there’s nothing to link to on the web. (Just click on the images below to view larger versions of them) Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share [...]

We hate to brag (ok maybe not) but we thought you should know that Maverick Magazine (A UK Country and Americana Music Mag) has Riverboat Soul at #10 this week on their UK Americana charts. And we hit #5 a couple weeks back on the Roots Music Report‘s Blues charts. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this [...]

We’ve confirmed and can now announce our European tour dates for late Summer 2010. We’ll be in six countries over the month of August to early September. Here are the dates (you can always find these on our tour dates page here): Aug 7 Ropetackle Centre Shoreham, England Aug 8 The Prince Albert Brighton, England [...]

We thought we’d pass along these reviews of Riverboat Soul from FolkWorks and IAmericana: Riverboat Soul is a great title. The project was recorded in two days and mixed in two days, pretty much like the old blues or hillbilly artists recorded in the 1920s and 1930s. La Farge and Phil Harris produced, while Harris [...]

As you may or may not know by now we will be playing the Newport Folk Festival Sunday, August 1st, and as our fans, you now have access to special pre-sales and discounts beginning March 22nd at 10:00 AM. Your promo code is POKEY. These discounts are not being offered to the general public, and [...]

We’re proud to announce that our record Riverboat Soul has charted at number 9 this week on both the Roots Music Report’s Blues Airplay Chart and the Third Coast Music Freeform American Roots chart. This is our debut on the 3rd Coast Music charts and we have moved up thirteen places from number 22 to [...]

Rob Ellen videoed this interview with us and some of our show in Glasgow. We found it via the Medicine Show web site here. Check it out: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Our good friend Filipe Bessa made this wonderful little music video for us while we were in NYC last summer. I hope you enjoy: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

1st Day Jan. 20th- Travelling I stayed up all night so that I may get some sleep on the plane, (of course that doesn’t happen cause lord knows that there may be snakes on a plane but ain’t no sleepin for me). Foggy, foggy day. I knew once i walked outside that the plane was [...]