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The Coal Porters
United Kingdom
Приєднався 20 вер 2010
The Coal Porters are an exciting and dynamic bluegrass combo with a DYNAMITE LIVE ACT.
The Coal Porters claim to be the world’s first “alt-bluegrass” act, demonstrating the power of fiddle, mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar and doghouse bass when matched with four-part harmonies and memorable melodies. They have taken this sound around the world being featured on NPR’s Morning Edition in the USA and having recorded a live session for Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2.
“Not your average fish & chips bluegrass, the Coal Porters have expanded their music with broad strokes and fearless execution.”
Chris Hillman (Byrds/Flying Burrito Bros)
“Sid Griffin was playing Americana long before it was called that with his Long Ryders and his pioneering spirit lives on in his work with the Coal Porters.”
Billy Bragg
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The Coal Porters - Walls Come Tumbling Down (Live)
Here is the Coal Porters’ version of Paul Weller and The Style Council’s immortal song Walls Come Tumbling Down as performed by the CPs in Birmingham, Guildford, London, and then Brighton on four consecutive nights in April 2022.
The lineup was Kerenza Peacock and Gemma White on fiddle, Andrew Stafford on doghouse bass, smilin’ Paul Fitzgerald on banjo, Neil Bob Herd on guitar, and Sid Griffin on mandolin and beard.
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The Coal Porters hope to play another short series of dates next year 📅 Our contact is bookings@thecoalporters.co.uk.
Please share this song far and wide as it has a hopeful message for our times.
The lineup was Kerenza Peacock and Gemma White on fiddle, Andrew Stafford on doghouse bass, smilin’ Paul Fitzgerald on banjo, Neil Bob Herd on guitar, and Sid Griffin on mandolin and beard.
thecoalporters.com / thecoalporters.bandcamp.com / thecoalporters
The Coal Porters hope to play another short series of dates next year 📅 Our contact is bookings@thecoalporters.co.uk.
Please share this song far and wide as it has a hopeful message for our times.
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The Coal Porters - Verbovaya Doschechka (Live)
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This is the Coal Porters performance of the traditional Ukrainian folk song Verbovaya Doschechka as performed April 30, 2022 at The Prince Albert in Brighton, England. Many of you will know this song due to the charity video organised by the wonderful Kerenza Peacock which went viral in March (violinistssupportukraine.com/). Think of the proud civilians of Ukraine, do whatever you can for them,...
The Coal Porters - Draft Morning (Live)
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This is Draft Morning, a fave Byrds song by David Crosby with a bit of shine added by McGuinn and Hillman. Here is the Coal Porters’ version from April 29, 2022 in London at The Water Rats with double fiddlers courtesy of Kerenza Peacock and Gemma White. thecoalporters.com / thecoalporters.bandcamp.com / thecoalporters
The Coal Porters - Gospel Shore (Live)
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Also from last nights hoppin' show at The Keep here is Gospel Shore which orignally appeared on our 2012 album Find the One. The Coal Porters claim to be the world’s first ‘alt-bluegrass’ band and after touring extensively for 15 years, with appearances at Glastonbury and Roskilde and live sessions on BBC Radio 2, Radio 6 Music and USA’s Country Music Channel watched by 6 million viewers, The C...
The Coal Porters - New Cut Road (Live)
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Sid sez... Here’s two minutes of last night’s Guildford show at The Keep which is a fine venue and was packed with punters. This version of Guy Clark’s New Cut Road was our second set’s closer and things got kinda crazy. You can’t see the people in the rear standing and shouting but you can feel and I hope hear the Fats Waller/Zoot Money/Lovin’ Spoonful music “good time” vibe. The song has thre...
The Coal Porters - Wheel Hoss/Salad Days (Live)
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Here is the first song the Coal Porters have performed live for an audience in four years, our medley of Bill Monroe’s Wheel Hoss and our own Salad Days (from our last album, No.6). Sid sez... "I don’t have time to look thru the fan’s videos for a bigger clip and these four minutes give you the vibe; great Birmingham audience, twin 🎻🎻fiddles, FIVE part harmonies, me nervously forgetting the lin...
The Coal Porters - Take My Name (Official Video)
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After writing Everywhere, a song covered by Billy Bragg amongst others, Sid Griffin sat down to write a song with his longtime friend the late great Greg Trooper. Sid had an idea about a poor young man with nothing to offer the love of his life but starting a family…that is, sharing his last name and beginning anew…hence Take My Name. The song only appeared on a Spanish compilation CD though it...
The Coal Porters - One Is Way too Many (Live at The Green Note)
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This song, performed live here at The Green Note, is 'One Is Way Too Many' from The Coal Porters Album Durango. “Not your average fish & chips bluegrass, The Coal Porters have expanded their music with broad strokes and fearless execution.” Chris Hillman (The Byrds/The Flying Burrito Brothers) “Sid Griffin was playing Americana long before it was called that with his Long Ryders and his pioneer...
The Coal Porters - A Light From The Mountains (Live at The Green Note)
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On the 8th of March The Coal Porters play Londons Green Note. Follwing this they visit Ulverston, Cumbria on March 16th, Thornton Hough, Wirral on March 17th and end March with three dates in Spain playing Madrid, Cádiz and Tomelloso. Those dates again are: 8th March (Thursday) - The Green Note Tickets - www.greennote.co.uk/production/the-coal-porters/ 16th March (Friday) - The Bowler Bar - Ulv...
The Coal Porters - Fair Play, Virginia
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Fair Play, Virginia, from The Coal Porters CD How Dark This Earth Will Shine.
The Coal Porters - Yonder Over Canaan
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Yonder Over Canaan, from The Coal Porters CD How Dark This Earth Will Shine.
The Coal Porters - Morning Song
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Morning Song, from The Coal Porters CD How Dark This Earth Will Shine.
The Coal Porters - Silver Raven
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Silver Raven, from The Coal Porters CD Turn The Water On, Boy!
The Coal Porters - Tea and Tobacco
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Tea and Tobacco, from The Coal Porters CD Turn The Water On Boy!
The Coal Porters - Adam and Evil
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Adam and Evil, from The Coal Porters CD Turn The Water On Boy!
The Coal Porters - A Light from the Mountains
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The Coal Porters - A Light from the Mountains
The Coal Porters - Bluegrass Broth (Live)
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The Coal Porters - Bluegrass Broth (Live)
The Coal Porters - How Mountain Girls Can Love (Live at The Green Note)
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The Coal Porters - How Mountain Girls Can Love (Live at The Green Note)
The Coal Porters - Chopping The Garlic (Live at The Green Note)
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The Coal Porters - Chopping The Garlic (Live at The Green Note)
The Coal Porters - The Old Style Prison Break (Live at The Green Note)
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The Coal Porters - The Old Style Prison Break (Live at The Green Note)
The Coal Porters - The Day The Last Ramone Died (Live at The Green Note)
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The Coal Porters - The Day The Last Ramone Died (Live at The Green Note)
The Coal Porters - New Cut Road (Live at the Green Note)
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The Coal Porters - New Cut Road (Live at the Green Note)
The Coal Porters - Wheel Hoss/Salad Days (Live)
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The Coal Porters - Wheel Hoss/Salad Days (Live)
never thought that downbloading a british radio show in the early 2000s would lead me here cheers ricky steve and karl and of course you fine folks for this song brings a tear to my tired eyes much love from a small village in south brazil from us in paraiso do sul RS tudo de bom pra voces (=
Wherever did this clip come from? The fellow in the top hat came up with a very good trick there!
This is like The Only Ones have moved to an old folk's home.
Going to the toil-et 😂
Wow! What a great cover!!!
I'm glad so many enjoy this. Sorry but I think it sucks compared to the original
Amazing song!
Rather pleasant!
*Sid Griffin*
Amazing 😍
A very gentle reminder of the greatness of this tune. Thank you.
Class, absolutely class.
Не, тут людям сразу, лайк.
It may not be by Cole Porter, but it's by some Coal Porters instead! And very nice too.
I'm always up for good bluegrass. Nice cover.
Love it
A wonderful song that I never thought could be covered and sound as good, but this is wonderful stuff. Superb.
I love the original, but this version is bad..
Didn’t know what to expect, I fn loved it
A traditional bluegrass one-mic recording - perfect!
WTF😊
I'm sorry, but for me the Starwood will always be a sad place, where Paul Kossoff played his last gig before he died.
I prefer the original version, but this is sure interesting.
Hearing this version makes me think that it would go down well with the American C&W fans, I wonder who could be persuaded to do the cover?
Just love that violin.
Brilliant! I also watched this planning to hate it, what a nice surprise that it was wonderful.
Can't believe they're not Irish with their sound!❤
Kerenza Peacock, what a talent.
The Ramones are great fun. I have always described them as The Beach Boys gone crazy.
The violinist plays this beautifully she's the bomb🤙
Just love this to bits.... Wonderful. :-)
Unexpected. Awesome..😊
Love this version
So good, my second favourite version of this song after the Only Ones. Could we please see a version of Just Like Heaven and So long by Fischer Z ?.
Seriously needs to gtf!
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Beautiful ...
interesting arrangement for a song about drug addiction ....
Excellent 👌👌
Great version hillbilly heroin version helped keep peter perrit in heroin
Love it! ❤❤
They effin' nailed it!
Lovely thoughtful arrangement
Velvet Underground use of drone: The Velvet Underground - Heroin (Funbox Karaoke, 1967) ua-cam.com/video/p20tkHLffqE/v-deo.html
If you did a blue grass version of a Velvet Underground song, one of the songs from their first two albums, with a violin drone that would be amazing.--and never done before, never tried before. Musically, Lady Godiva's Operation is a favorite.
I encourage you to try using a drone violin combined with blue grass, a la The Velvet Underground with drone viola and rock and roll. That's never been tried before. With La Monte Young is where John Cale first played a drone viola.
I forgot to mention Teenage Kicks in my comment to Another Girl, Another Planet, hehe.
Interesting. Here are some suggestion for 70's punk covers: Pere Ubu: Final Solution Televison: See No Evil Buzzcocks: Boredom, What Do I Get? Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory, Too Much Junkie Business, Born To Lose The Mekkons: Where Were You? Black Flag: Wasted The Jam,: In the City Jonathan Richam and the Modern Lovers: Hospital, Roadrunner, Pablo Picasso Richard Hell and the Voidoids: Love Comes in Spurts, Blank Generation New York Dolls: Trash, Personality Crisis X Offender: Blondie Wire: Mannequin Generation X: Ready, Steady, Go Devo: Mongoloid The Ramones: Sheena is a Punk Rocker, Cretin Hop Dead Kennedys: California Uber Alles Talking Head: Love--Building on Fire The Cure: Boys Don't Cry Gang of Four: Love Like Anthrax Joy Division: Leave Me Alone, Love Will Tear Us Apart New Order: Leave Me Alone, Nick Lowe: Heart of the City, (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding Elvis Costello : Waiting for the End of the World Bonus Suggestion: The Velvet Underground: Lady Godiva's Operation
I guess there have to be some songs that don't work.
Excellent cover. So different from The Only Ones.