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The Kitchen Syncopators

The Kitchen Syncopators were born in 1998 out of love for old southern music and necessity by Gill Landry and Woodrow Pines while they starved, sharing floor space in a tool shed in rainy western Oregon. They spent the next few years cutting their teeth on the streets of New Orleans not so starving, and sharing floor space in a one bedroom shotgun in the 9th Ward, heading to the west coast in the summers for the kinder weather, and easy living in the open air. Joined the next year by their old friends Bob Scarecrow and Charlie Bean from previous ensembles, they've evolved into their own sound with a blend of rural and urban oldtime stringband, blues, ragtime, jazz, and jug band music and have since built quite a name and following for a few hobo's. In the last few years Ryan Donahue and Slim Nelson have been performing and recording with the band in New Orleans and occasionally on the west coast.

Gill Landry / Frank Lemon/ Lawrence Talbot

Gill Landry was born in Lake Charles, LA. He's played guitar and sang with the Syncopators since 1998 as Frank Lemon. He's currently touring as Gill Landry in support of his new album "The Ballad of Lawless Soirez" out on Nettwerk Records January 30th 2007. www.gilllandry.com - www.myspace.com/gilllandry

BOB SCARECROW

Inspired by the scratchy sounds of 78's played on his ol handcrank Grafonola, Bob Scarecrow was definitely born in the wrong century. Playing brass washboards with rusty cans, washtub, and banjo, he joined the Syncopators in Yazoo City, 99. He can also be found playing in his band of original material with Charlie and Gill called The Oz St. Fossils their website is ....www.myspace.com/ozstfossils

CHARLIE "S.S. TUB LIGHTNIN'" BEAN

Charlie Bean met up with the Syncopators in 2000 while miming on Royal St. as Charlie Chaplin. Nicknamed Tub Lightnin' he is currently playing piano in the band and captain of the Great White Wonder,. He can also be found moonlighting his songs in the Oz St. Fossils

Slim Nelson

Slim Nelson, born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Spent the early 90's in Chicago playing electric blues. He moved to New Orleans in '95 where he started another blues band. He's been playing electric and acoustic blues guitar and harmonica in and around New Orleans. Joined the Kitchen Syncopators in 2001. He is currently making upright bass' out of gastanks and mufflers from flooded new orleans cars and preparing for a great adventure.

Ryan Donahue

Ryan Donahue is a musician virtuoso, living in New Orleans, LA . He's played Upright Bass and Guitar with the Syncopators since 2000. As a performer he has toured extensively throughout the states and Europe. He is currently in Croatia riding his bike in preparation for the next Tour de France. He's still playing with the Syncopators, Gill Landry, and 50 million other bands.

Paul Kemnitz

Paul Kemnitz is a El Salvadorian rebel from Milwaukee. We met hin down in New Orleans years ago and he recorded tub bass on the Syncopators first record. Now that he's moving to San Francisco he will hopefully be playing with us from time to time, when he's not fighting the good fight.

Woodrow Pines

Woodrow Pines started the Syncopators with Gill in 1998 but wen't off in 2002 to a brighter more independent future. Though It is my hope we have not seen the last of him. He is currently (at least last time we heard) living in the old country, somewheres in North Carolina, playing traps in the Black Lung Brass Band.