Asylum Street Spankers

Description of Asylum Street Spankers' Music:

Folk-punk, country blues

Comparisons:

If you like Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, and Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, you may enjoy Asylum Street Spankers.

Asylum Street Spankers Band Members:

Charlie King - vocals, banjo, dobro, mandolin, harmonica
Josh Hoag - upright bass, mandolin
Nevada Newman - vocals, guitar
Scott Marcus - drums
Wammo - vocals, washboard, harmonica
Christine Marrs - vocals, ukulele, tenor banjo, tenor guitar, guitar, musical saw

Purchase/Download Asylum Street Spankers MP3s:

"It's a Sin to Tell a Lie"
"When I Grow Up"
"Take the Heat"

Recommended CDs by Asylum Street Spankers:

Mommy Says No! (Yellow Dog, 2007)
My Favorite Record (Bloodshot, 2002)
Dirty Ditties EP (Spanks-A-Lot, 2002)

Asylum Street Spankers Biography:

The Asylum Street Spankers originally got together at a party in Llano, Texas, in 1994, where Guy Forsyth, Christina Marrs and Wammo started a jam session. Back in Austin, they gathered some other friends and quickly took on a regimen of playing frequent gigs at bars and happy hours along Guadalupe Street in Austin. It was there that they got their name. Guadalupe Street was nicknamed Asylum Street, as it leads to the old Asylum.

Forsyth eventually left the band and, several personnel changes later, in 1999, they started the indie label Spanks-a-Lot Records. Since then, they've slowly but steadily built up an international cult following as a hard-hitting, undeniably entertaining indie folk act. They've recorded 17 albums to date.