Yodelling banjo player and fixture of NY oldtime scene
Detroit born and circus raised, Curtis Eller has built a strong following in the UK based on full throttle live shows where slapstick and silent comedy meets the urgency of an early David Byrne. However, despite the Groucho moustache, braces and baggy trousers, this isn't the sideshow that it may first appear. Eller is a gifted writer raised on Randy Newman, The Band and Tom Waits. His often melancholy, often angry songs describe a dream like view of American history where all points in time have collapsed into one. Elvis Presley can rub shoulders with Abraham Lincoln against a backdrop of circus disasters, assassinations, corruption and chain gangs. To top it off he has the smoky voice of a man lost in the desert without a flask and performs every song as if his life depended in it. Not to be missed.
