"We're not your typical Celtic band?" --- Bote
Bote strives to entertain and diversify the music scene in general. "While we're not technically unique (other bands like Great Big Sea, the Oysterband, and Enter the Haggis do the same thing), we'd go as far as to say that while we've been told that the southern USA has bands like us in our genre, we've only personally met three of them."
Since we're from South Carolina (as a unit, not individually), we tend to find ourselves pulling more and more from the regional sounds that have evolved since the Scots-Irish settled these hills in the 1800s. Piedmont Blues, Southern Rock, Bluegrass, and Folk are intermingled with Irish/Scottish/Newfoundlandic songs in ways that can only come from members influenced by so many differing backgrounds.
We owe sonic homage to bands like Flogging Molly, the Oysterband, Great Big Sea, Enter the Haggis, The Allman Bros., Lynyrd Skynyrd, B.B. King, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Proclaimers, Chumbawamba, Elders, Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Bob Dylan, Donovan, and Johnny Cash. Because we pull from so many influential musicians in the past and present our sound continues to diversify and stretch boundaries seldom found in a single band.
We enjoy playing Roadhouse Blues and then ripping into Molly Malone faster than Mari Mac married me.
Eric said it best when he described our band as a cross between the Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead clashed with driving folk-rock of the Celtic nations. I don't think it's common to hear two lead guitars back a song like Wild Rover without being overdriven or over the top, but the power of having a very modern band with some not-so-modern tunes is what keeps us playing at more and more venues that underestimate us. We are a celtic band, but we're not your typical celtic band.
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