If you were luckly enough to see the Sell Out at The Albert back in January, then I'm sure you'll want to spend some time with the boys again. It was a blast of a night and not only for the exciting playing and great singing ..... whichever way you looked at it ... it was TOP ENTERTAINMENT.

Pokey and the boys are over here again, this time for the Summer Sundae Weekender in Leicester and for a FIVE night run at The Edinburgh Festival. Catch them in a nice small gig while you can!

“Lawd knows we need people like Pokey LaFarge. Coming on like a bastard son of Woody Guthrie and Blind Blake, this is the kind of stuff Ry Cooder’s been trying to do for decades: no-holds-barred, honest-to-goodness sheet-kicking music of the highest order. Pokey’s forte are hot little vignettes like Walk Your Way Out Of This Town and I Don’t Mind Dyin’, dusty slices of timeless Americana coloured with peeping harmonica and blasting kazoo.

A lo-fi gem from an, as yet, unsung troubadour” Julian Piper, Acoustic magazine, UK

http://www.pokeylafarge.net/ HAVE A LISTEN

In true rambler fashion, LaFarge does not look back; he looks only forward on the next road ready approaching with his guitar in his hand and his voice ready to fly. His influence is deeply rooted in the heroes and misfits of yesterday; the long lost troubadours of country, the kings of swamp-drentched ragtime, and all the legendary bluesmen of the Cotton Kingdom. The result is a boiling pot of American cultures; a wonderfully fresh and quirky kind of pop music that combines delta-meets-appalachia song-writing with a big, big beat.

Even though the songs were birthed in the hills and country towns of old America, don’t call it old-timey; LaFarge is here to grace it into this modern and electric world. Along with his refreshing take on tradition, Pokey brings his irresistible charm and genuinely romantic outlook on, not only subjects such as the rivers and the land itself, but universal topics such as love, death, and real adventure. With a firm grasp on personal freedom and Shakespearean insight on humanity, Pokey remains one of the very few folks who consistently turn the abstract into a concrete reality.

Music is not just chords and notes and melody. To a person who truly loves music, it is a medium to celebrate this life. For Pokey, every show is a celebration – juke-joint style – where women twirl in their dresses and the fellas stomp their feet and clap their hands. To this day, Mr. LaFarge is still finding tranquility within the yellow highway lines playing up to two-hundred shows a year bringing his music to anyone young and old who is willing to listen.