MADE Paper Presents: Hankfest 2015
--MADE Paper is excited to announce Hankfest 2015! Join us in the A&P Courtyard in Montgomery, AL on May 2nd from 7-11 p.m.for a celebration of Southern Music with a touch of Hank. Musical acts include Dead Fingers, Daniel Elias + Exotic Dangers, Captain Kudzu, and Hank Sr All Stars! Tickets on sale now for $10 at http://hankfest.brownpapertickets.com. Tickets will be $20 at the door. Special discount given at the door to those who have their Fitzgerald Gala ticket and Southern Makers wristbands! ---Dead Fingers
--Since 2012's eponymous debut on Big Legal Mess Records, Dead Fingers have taken stock of the dynamic changes their lives have undergone. Kate and Taylor being first time parents has added new perspective to their road weary travelogues and broke beat folk/country/blues hybrid.---
They made their way through the ranks of indie-rock reality checks both with each other and on their own. From Taylor's earliest days as a lo-fi axe slinger shredding J. Mascis-by way of-Johnny Thunders riffage on You Know That Summer's Coming, to his time spent touring with Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, and Kate's lifelong tutelage in one of the most gifted musical families in the Magic City, there's little that has missed these two. They fostered their songwriting skills through years of hard won apprenticeships and also toured extensively throughout the US and in Europe sharing the stage with Jason Isbell, Maria Taylor, and Leon Redbone.--
Having added drummer Alan Rosser as a permanent fixture it seems Dead Fingers have finally settled into a life that just fits and 2014 boasts the release of the new album Big Black Dog. Produced by Bruce Watson of Fat Possum (Heartless Bastards, Water Liars, R.L. Burnside, AA Bondy), it speaks as much to their growing maturity as artists and their innate ability to put their lives squarely in the fabric of their songs.-----
From penning acoustic remedies for heartbroken scribes in "Pomp & Circumstance," to the playful pretzel wordplay of "Twisted," there's enough existential wisdom for people twice their age to revel in- along with the standard Dead Fingers six string whiplash- to make this one of the most exciting albums in either of their respective catalogs. Big Black Dog stands as a new chapter in the careers of some of Birmingham's most talented musicians and their struggle to find a balance between their art and home life.-(Dead Fingers - "Twisted")-(Dead Fingers - "Shoom Doom Dabba Labba")-Daniel Elias + Exotic Danger
A Shoals, AL Rock 'n' Roll band. Showcasing honey-sweet melodies, heartbeat rhythms, 12-string chime, humbucker punch, and dry-bone Farfisa foundations.-Daniel Elias Crisler - Guitar, Vocals
Brady Gomillion - Bass Guitar
Maggie Crisler - Farfisa, Percussion
Jon Mosley - Drums--(Daniel Elias + Exotic Dangers - "Don't Muck Around")
-Captain Kudzu
"Captain Kudzu, formerly a music project between Jackson Gafford and a friend, has now become Gafford’s stage name for his independent work as a producer, musician and singer-songwriter. An Opelika native, Gafford is currently recording his first album, while performing at venues within the Auburn-Opelika area.-Gafford crafts his sound by using the increasingly popular method of looping. He records a certain sound and then replays it to create a seamless repetition of music. He loops sounds as a simple as a drum beat to more complex guitar riffs. Gafford layers these sounds upon each other, slowly building his work, piece by piece, until he fills a room with atmospheric sound." -- excerpt from The Corner News
(Captain Kudzu covering Tame Imapala's "Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind")
--Hank Sr. All Stars
The Hank Sr. All Stars is a super group comprised of all Montgomery-based musicians, including Windsor Bellephone, Andrew Lewis of Medicine Chest, Zane Tremontana of The Hard Gospel, Geoffrey Stockinged of Distant Kin, and Will Gordon of Federal Expression.
