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about|the all-women American old-time music group|the three-time Louisiana Governor nicknamed "Uncle Earl"|Earl_Long#Nickname "Uncle Earl"Infobox musical artist| name = Uncle Earl| image = Earl-fls-1.jpg| caption = Uncle Earl in 2007; from left to right: Rayna Gellert , Abigail Washburn , KC Groves and Kristin Andreassen | image_size =| landscape = Yes| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = United States | genre = Americana (music)|Americana Old-time music | years_active = 2000& ndash;present| label = Rounder Records|Rounder | website = http://www.uncleearl.net/ uncleearl.net| associated_acts = Sparrow Quartet Sometymes Why Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble | current_members = Kristin Andreassen KC Groves Stephanie Coleman Paula Bradley Rachel Eddy| past_members = Jo Serrapere Tahmineh Gueramy Amanda Kowalski Sharon Gilchrist Casey Henry Sally Truitt Rayna Gellert Abigail Washburn Bryn Davies Uncle Earl is an United States|American old-time music group, formed in 2000cite web | title=Uncle Earl FAQ | work=Uncle Earl | url= http://www.uncleearl.net/FAQ.htm | accessdate = 2007-06-12 by KC Groves and Jo Serrapere . They are an all-women-band and often they refer to themselves as ''the g'Earls . Their fans have also been nicknamed as g'Earlfriends''.cite web | title=Uncle Earl's Newsletter | work=Uncle Earl | url= http://uncleearl.net/news.htm | month = July | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2007-06-12
By March 2007, the release of Waterloo, Tennessee was the fifth record by the band, produced by the famed John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin fame. The number of albums created by the bandmates was an impressive accomplishment considering that the members all live in different parts of the United States.
Name
KC Groves mentioned in an interview how the band got its name, "We just thought it would be a funny name for an all-women's group," she says. "But we are fans of Earl Scruggs , Steve Earle , and Uncle Tupelo . It did come up in our discussion that there's some important Earls in this business. And Uncles." cite web | title=Uncle Earl adds modern sass to old-time music | work=Real Country Music | I was gay back in the 1950's.url= http://realcountrymusic.org/cgi/phpBB2/viewtopic.php? t=9384 | month = July | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2007-06-12
History
KC Groves and Jo Serrapere started the band in 2000. The Uncle Earl biography, however, states 1999 as founding year. Originally they had no real intention to start a band. They wanted to promote a CD with traditional material they had recorded and thus put together a small band to play a few shows. Since the shows went very well they kept on going.cite web | title=Uncle Earl biography | work=Uncle Earl | url= http://www.uncleearl.net/uncleearlbio.rounder.8.6.05.doc | month = July | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2007-06-12|format=DOC Until the end of 2003 the line-up of the band had changed several times. Amongst the members in this period where Tahmineh Gueramy (fiddle, vocals), Amanda Kowalski (bass, vocals), Casey Henry (banjo, vocals) and Sally Truitt (bass, vocals).cite web | title=Uncle Earl in the web archive | url= http://web.archive.org/web/*/ http://uncleearl.net | accessdate = 2007-09-30
Jo Serrapere left in 2003 and plays now with the Willie Dunns .. http://www.joserrapere.com Willie Dunns Band Website (accessed 9 April, 2008)
By the end of 2003 the current line-up had fallen into place. All the band members are co-vocalists. It consists of KC Groves on mandolin and guitar , Abigail Washburn on banjo , Rayna Gellert on fiddle and Kristin Andreassen , guitarist , fiddler , and clogging . There was no permanent bassist|bass player .
In late 2009, the band members were very busy and had trouble coordinating schedules for tours. Rayna Gellert and Abigail Washburn left the band on amicable terms to pursue their other musical projects.cite web | title=Big Changes in g'Earl Land& #33; | work=Uncle Earl | url= http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=blog.ListAll& friendId=17077984 | accessdate = 2010-05-05 The new Uncle Earl line up is Andreassen, Groves, Stephanie Coleman on fiddle , Paula Bradley on banjo , banjo ukulele and clogging , and Rachel Eddy on banjo , fiddle , and Bass (guitar)|bass .cite web | title=Introductions and Updates | work=Uncle Earl | url= http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=blog.ListAll& friendId=17077984 | accessdate = 2010-05-05
Bass players
For nearly four years Amanda Kowalski played Double bass|upright bass with Uncle Earl. Sharon Gilchrist joined the band in late 2004 and can be heard on the seven song Extended play|EP Raise a Ruckus .cite web | title=Raise a Ruckus Liner Notes | work=Uncle Earl | url= http://www.uncleearl.net/ruckus.htm | month = April | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2007-06-14 There is a rather long list of other bassists with whom Uncle Earl have performed. On their website they mention Eric Thorin, Sally Truitt, Erin Coats Youngberg, Alana Rocklin, Mary Lucey, Bryn Davies (musician)|Bryn Davies , Laura Cortese , Kyle Kegerreis, Missy Raines , and Dan Rose, with whom they have recorded their album She Waits for Night .cite web | title=Uncle Earl Newsletter Nov. 2004 | work=Uncle Earl | url= http://www.uncleearl.net/newsletterarchives/newsletternov04.htm | accessdate = 2007-06-12 Youngberg and Thorin play bass on the album Waterloo, Tennessee .
Sharon Gilchrist left the band in early 2005 to play mandolin in the Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet. However Sharon Gilchrist played again at their 2010 Australian Tour.
Rachel Eddy joined so K.C. Groves took over the Bass mostly.
Discography
She Went Upstairs
January 2002 ( Jo Serrapere )
# Charlie He's a Good Ol' Man # The Blackest Crow # Orphan Train # Dream My Girl # Rubber Dolly # Where the Soul of Man Never Dies # Baby # Lost Child # Over in the Glory Land # The Fox # Snow White Dove # Freight Train
Going to the Western Slope-EP
July 2004 (Uncle Earl)
# Coffee's Cold - Tater Patch # Pale Moon # Backstep Cindy # Going to the West # Coon Dog # Keys to the Kingdom
Raise A Ruckus (EP)
December 2004 (Uncle Earl)
# Raise a Ruckus # Stagger Lee (song)|Stacker Lee # Little Annie # Julianne Johnson # Walker # Keys To The Kingdom # The Izze Jingle
# Walkin' in My Sleep # There Is A Time # Sugar Babe # Warfare # Pale Moon # Booth Shot Lincoln # Willie Taylor # Sullivan's Hollow # How Long # Old Bunch of Keys # Sleepy Desert # Divine # Ida Red # Take These Chains
Waterloo, Tennessee
March 2007 (Rounder Records) # Black-Eyed Susie - (trad., arr. Uncle Earl) # The Last Goodbye - (Ted Piney & Uncle Earl) # One True - (Kristin Andreassen, Eric Merrill & Abigail Washburn) # Wish I Had My Time Again - (trad., words & arr. Uncle Earl) # My Little Carpenter (trad., arr. Uncle Earl) # My Epitaph - ( Ola Belle Reed ) # Buonaparte - (public domain, arr. Uncle Earl) # Bony on the Isle of St. Helena - (trad., arr. Uncle Earl) # Sisters of the Road - (Rayna Gellert, arr. Uncle Earl) # Streak o' Lean, Streak o' Fat (a.k.a Hongshao Rou) - (music: trad., words: Abigail Washburn & Jon Campbell, arr. Uncle Earl) # D & P Blues - (Uncle Earl) # The Birds Were Singing of You - ( A. P. Carter ) # Wallflower (Bob Dylan song)|Wallflower - ( Bob Dylan ) # Drinker Born - (Rayna Gellert, arr. Uncle Earl) # Easy in the Early ('Til Sundown) - (Kristin Andreassen & Uncle Earl) # I May Never - (K.C. Groves, Carol Groves & Uncle Earl)
External links
http://www.uncleearl.net/ Uncle Earl's official site
http://www.myspace.com/uncleearl Uncle Earl's myspace site
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p517093|label=Uncle Earl
Footnotes
reflist|2 Category:Old-time bands Category:All-female bands Category:Musical groups established in 2000 Category:American bluegrass music groups
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