Guthrie

It began in a swamp. Well, in a Tipi in a swamp, with a telephone attached to an ironbark gum. This is not fiction. This is the cold smoking truth. The bearded man was born. Many years passed to the sounds of Tom Waits, AC/DC, Tim Buckley, The Black Keys, Pantera and Springsteen. The young bearded man moved to a bigger swamp filled with smoke and bars and girls. A land of knife fights and drug dens and muscle cars and rock’n’roll. He lost his way and began to despair. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

It began in a swamp. Well, in a Tipi in a swamp, with a telephone attached to an ironbark gum. This is not fiction. This is the cold smoking truth. The bearded man was born. Many years passed to the sounds of Tom Waits, AC/DC, Tim Buckley, The Black Keys, Pantera and Springsteen. The young bearded man moved to a bigger swamp filled with smoke and bars and girls. A land of knife fights and drug dens and muscle cars and rock’n’roll. He lost his way and began to despair. Half drowned in Jack Daniels he prowled his new domain. On night in a smoke filled bar he met a man with golden hair. The man said that he was born of the beach and the ocean and the waves. They sang the blues in husky voices long into the night. They assembled their instruments the next day in a dingy room above a stained glass workshop and played till their fingers bled. The magic had been woven. Guthrie was born screaming in a bath of flames and booze and smoke and hair. Give these young men the chance…and they’ll spit fire! Guthrie play hard, party hard and most importantly work hard. 2010 has seen this mysterious pair gig their arses off. With appearances at The Jackeys Marsh Forest Festival, Forth Valley Blues Festival, Rosebery Music Festival, Adventure Bay Blues and Roots Festival and supports for The Kill Devil Hills, The Beards, Black Japan and British India, Guthrie continue to sweat it out with the best of them. This hard work has been recognised with a nomination for Blues/Country/Folk Artist of the Year in the Tasmanian Amplified Awards. Guthrie’s unique brand of swamp blues/rock/hardcore is not to be missed. The shame of your behaviour the night before will quickly fade when you remember how good the tunes were. Guthrie are fiercely proud of their convict roots and defend, support and promote Tasmanian music with a fire in their bellies. If these two young men met the devil at the cross roads they’d punch him in the kidneys and steal off with his square toed boots. Brace yourselves!!!! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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…shrink me down again