The Guthrie Girls w/ The Rear Defrosters Sponsored by Northern Lights Music

35 Mill Street,Littleton NH 03561

16 June, 2023

Description

People get ready, a new train is coming. After years of supporting Arlo Guthrie, their folk-singing, guitar-picking, storytelling father, Cathy and Sarah Lee Guthrie have made their way to center stage as The Guthrie Girls. They bring new songs and stories of their own to share in a style of music that leans toward country with folk roots. They carry the same melodic wit, charm and insight as their famous kin and their new music is a continuous river that flows from great creative musical traditions. Back in the day it was Woody who played fiddle and guitar in the honky-tonks of the Panhandle in Texas and Arlo wasn’t known as the ‘Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys’ for nothing. His ‘Son of the Wind’ and Dillards sessions offer further evidence of the folksinger’s country credentials. The Rear Defrosters are the best little honky tonk band that you've never heard of. Since their founding in 2012, the Brattleboro, Vermont-based band has played hundreds of shows in their native New England, from dive bars to barn dances, DIY pop-up shows to town squares, and state fairgrounds to hippie music festivals. The band operates with a rotating cast of all-star musicians, and their deep repertoire pays tribute to the greats of country music from the last century, from Jimmie Rodgers to Johnny Cash to Dwight Yoakam. In 2018, Lost Honey Records released Gentleman Farmer, the band's first album of original songs, penned by singer/guitarist Michael Roberts and recorded live during a single wintry recording session. Since 2021 they have hosted a monthly honky tonk night at Nova Arts in Keene, where they invite local and nationally-touring musicians to sit-in and sing country classics. In 2022, under the direction of pedal steel guitarist and singer Rebecca Branson-Jones, the band founded Neon Rainbow, an occasional queer honky tonk and gender neutral square dance series in the Brattleboro area.