If you know the name Frank Brown, there’s a good chance you have a Flight Of Mavis and/or Buzz Zeemer record or two on your shelf. (Welcome. It’s a small but, as far as I’m concerned, intelligent club.) Both of […]
If you know the name Frank Brown, there’s a good chance you have a Flight Of Mavis and/or Buzz Zeemer record or two on your shelf. (Welcome. It’s a small but, as far as I’m concerned, intelligent club.) Both of […]
To catch the full Frog Holler vibe, you’ll need to see the Philly combo in a crowded honk. The group has a growing rep as a killer live band, whereas the studio albums, as good as they are, have gotten […]
It’s late ’89 or early ’90. I arrive at the Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 45 minutes before the start of a twin bill featuring Philly’s Flight Of Mavis opening for Austin’s the Reivers to find the club […]
As a member of Philadelphia bands Electric Love Muffin (late-’80s) and the Rolling Hayseeds (early-’90s), Richard Kaufmann was involved in the burgeoning alt-rock and alt-country movements, respectively, but his obvious affection for classic AM-radio pop always steered him just a […]
In concert, dressed in their truck-driver best dirty tees and torn jeans, the members of Frog Holler look like a gaggle of guys who have, true to their name, spent a long weekend gigging toads in the hollows of rural […]
Fronted by singer/guitarists Rich Kaufmann and Kevin Karg, the Rolling Hayseeds became a major presence on the Philly music scene beginning in 1990. After some touring in support of 1996’s Tangled Up In You, however, the band went on a […]
Springing from Shoemakersville, a modest bluegrass trio formed in 1996, Frog Holler has evolved into a sprawling, genre-bending sextet. The band augments the introspective folk sensibilities and hill-country fatalism of primary singer-songwriter Darren Schlappich with a strong, all-for-one communal feel […]
My wife’s loathing and crummy winter weather notwithstanding, I miss Philadelphia. There’s a number of reasons why, but the five songwriters represented on this collective project attest to the musical motives. All of these guys front electric bands, but on […]
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