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The Kitchen Syncopators was born out of love for old southern music
and necessity in 1998 by Frank Lemon 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 unique honest 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.
Frank Lemon was born Gill Landry in Lake Charles, LA. He's played guitar
and sang with the Syncopators since 1998. Lately he's been playing with the Old Crow's but is currently looking forward to
more strange, loving kinds of unkown futures, spending his spare time practicing western shamanism from mossy spanish rooftops.
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.
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