Baby Gramps Tours, Leaves Reindeer at Home

Do you have fantasies of Santa Claus finger-picking a steel guitar? Are you excited by foot-long, knotted beards? How about scarves? Appalachian folk songs? Jazz music? Songs about eating worms, palindromes, and making a cool milli?

Welcome to Baby Gramps, the purveyor and salesman of the aforementioned musical wares. Gramps, with a voice that sounds like a Swiss cheese muffler, lovingly guides audiences through a free-associating tour of American music. His origins are purposefully mysterious — he lives in the Pacific Northwest, he’s been playing music since the ’60s, and he, uh, tours sometimes. A mixture of ecstatic singer-songwriter, unfrozen vaudevillian, raconteur great-grandfather, and hobo chic paragon, the act goes down like a glass of warm milk.

The best part is that if electricity were never invented we’d still have Baby Gramps.

Raise your Oreos:

06.06.08 - Sherman, NY - OUR Fest 06.07.08 - Sherman, NY - OUR Fest 06.09.08 - Rochester, NY - The Mez 06.10.08 - Ithaca, NY - The Nines 06.12.08 - Brooklyn, NY - Jalopy 06.14.08 - New York, NY - Terra Blues 06.15.08 - Brooklyn, NY - Zebulon 06.16.08 - New York, NY - The Kitchen Club 06.18.08 - Seattle, WA - Nuemos * 06.23.08 - Tacoma, WA - The Swiss 06.29.08 - Shoreline, WA - Shoreline Arts Festival 07.18.08 - Dublin, Ireland - Analog Festival $ 07.24.08 - Gateshead, England - The Sage $ 07.28.08 - London, England - Barbican $

* Devil Makes Three
$ Rogues Gallery CD concert tour

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