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Grew up in: All parts, CA,
WI
Currently resides in: Oakdale, Turlock, Knight's Ferry,
CA
What they play/do: a bunch of instruments/a bunch of
gigs
Some time ago: bought a tour van for 50
bucks
Influences: cigarettes and whusky, and wild, wild
women
Style: thrift store
Sounds like: good, honest music, that’s not afraid of a
little fun, that people will move their feet to, and that also
goes real well with a straight road and a long
drive.
The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit started as a strictly
live act and comprised of a coalition of musicians drawn from
the Cow Track Road Show and 52-Week Club
members. The Cow Track Road Show was a loose-knit
group of musicians and court jesters who started out playing
open mics and began venturing out to the surrounding
countryside, bringing the good folks the good music they
needed. One day, as legend has it, the booker for the only
music hall in Merced, wanted a country band based off Chris
Doud's country album demo, to come play. The band was
formed, they called it Horsefinder, and never looked back.
There were four soungwriters in the original group, they
renamed this potpourri of talent The Good Luck Thrift Store
Outfit, eventually settled down to just Willy and Chris as the
writers...and the rest is history...
Take
two prolific, folk-Americana singer-songwriters, a seasoned,
indie-rock veteran of a drummer (see Grandaddy), add in some
country-born and heavy-metal-bred supporting talent and throw
on a few suits, and what do you get: the rough-hewn yet
driftwood-smooth, punk-kind-of-country, good-kind-of-raw of
The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit.....Any Outfit member may
tell you that it’s plenty just to be at the pinnacle of a
music scene benefitting from the current hyper-local
movement, but, as one recent convert put it, “the rest of
America needs to hear this noise.” Likened to anything
from Old Crow Medicine Show and The Avett Bros. to Asleep at
the Wheel, Bob Wills and even Neil Young (depending on which
live set you happen to catch) they most often defy
categorization.....They describe their efforts as trying to
make good, honest music, that’s not afraid of a little fun,
that people will move their feet to, and that also goes real
well with a straight road and a long
drive.
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