About Our Friends The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit
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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: the first steam train is on its way to town, and old man Jangle's got out his
Cajun accordion just for the occasion, Claude's bringin' his washboard too, and I think I just
saw the smoke of that coal-burnin beast yonder up the gap
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 is a loose-knit group of musicians and court jesters who started out playing the
Wednesday night open mic at theCow Track Lounge and would venture out to the surrounding countryside,
bringing the good folks the sounds of a typical Cow Track Wednesday evening. The 52 Week Club is a songwriter's club
through which a sheer mountain of material sprang up.
The Road Show endeavor combined with the efforts of the 52-Week Club prompted the need for
a regular performing outfit, and The Outfit was born.
All of it's members (and there are/have been quite a few) are accomplished solo performers in their own rights who have come
together to help perform each other's songs. The list includes Straight Dealin' Willy Tea, Down and Dirty Chris Doud, The Gambler's
Prayer Mr. Matt Cordano, The Full Boat Eddie T. Taylor Webster, Baby Squatch Aaron Burtch, Aletha "Gut Shot" Schelby,
Josh "Nut Flush" Ryun, The Irish Fat Stacks Mr. Michael P. Kennedy, Jeremy "Jimmy Hacker" Acker,
Slow-play Tommy Green Bay Tom VandenAvond, and Jeff "Big Slick" Mooneyham.
On any given night you might catch between 3 or 4 seperate vocalalists singing
their individual songs with a mighty fine Thrift Store accompaniment.
Check out the Events Page to see where they are playing next
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Albums
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The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit
is a collection of songs drawn from the setlists of the performing group of the same name.
While TGLTSO started out as just a collective of musicians united in a musical cause
they have become a regular old band it seems. And so this is their debut, independently produced album.
Hear the smooth musical stylings of The Gambler's Prayer as he caresses the pedal steel and shreddingly
hammers that most ubiquitous instrument the Flying V. Hear the boom-stick-thunder of The Full Boat Eddie T
pummeling the bog-darling bass. Hear Mr. Nut Flush tame the beast that is the five-string banjo.
Hear Big Slick shuffle, groove, steady-rock, fry up some eggs, and even sing a number.
Straight Dealin' Willy Tea, Slow Play Tommy Green Bay, and Down N Dirty straight wailin' out the rest of the numbers.
They even got The Irish Fat Stacks to lay down the fence-slat fiddle on a couple tracks.
Whoowhee, it's a hot one it is.
Track List
Lazy Train (mp3)
Shovel (mp3)
Cajun Jole (mp3)
Lullaby
Suit
Mooner
No No No Yeah
Ghost in the Graveyard
Johnny Law
Off the Cuff
Gypsy
Brick by Brick
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