The Bearfoot Hookers
Life At The Bar
© 2005 The Bearfoot Hookers (801655098721)
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THE BEARFOOT HOOKERS - BAND BIO
Listen closely and you can hear it. You'll feel the earth tremble as it approaches. And finally, when that whiskey-powered locomotive is upon you - you'd better jump in the passing boxcar quick - 'cause that's where the party is.
The Bearfoot Hookers hail from Athens, Georgia, but they're really from smaller towns, like Waycross, where the trains roll through night and day. Their music is full of stories about good times and bad, empty bottles, aching heads, broken hearts, and demons that haunt you at the end of a long night of playing the blues.
They're not the next big thing. They're not watching the trends. The Bearfoot Hookers are just four guys playing songs that come from deep inside, giving 110% every time they hit the stage, and ready to play 'til the audience goes home or collapses.
When asked what kind of music they play, they'll answer "beer drinkin' gospel" and if you don't understand what that is, stick around 'cause the preacher is in the house! Johnny Cash knew what it meant. The Rolling Stones have been there a few times. And a little band of southern boys from Jacksonville, Florida damn sure knew what it was.
The Bearfoot Hookers formed in 2003 and promptly produced their debut recording Sweet Pickle Grits as an attempt to capture the energy that was building from their live shows around Athens. An aggressive performance schedule followed and the audiences grew steadily in towns across Georgia. Atlanta's 96 Rock (WKLS FM) was quick to pick up on the track "Sister" and give it play on its Stage 96 show. The Hooker's traveling rock & roll show garnered the attention of New York film director John Nijhawan who followed the band filming 3 Day Drunk, a documentary of the raucous full-on show the Bearfoot Hookers were bringing to their audiences.
After a year of playing smoky bars throughout the South and a year's worth of stories that became songs, they went to Athens' famed Chase Park Transduction to record their second album Life at the Bar in the fall of 2004.
Critical acclaim has followed. Just as Life at the Bar was being pressed, Flagpole Magazine selected The Bearfoot Hookers as one of their "Bands to Watch in 2005". Following the album's release, Ghostmeat Records of Athens, Georgia picked the soulful track "Beggar's Prayer" to be included on the 2005 Athfest Compilation disc. And tracks from both of the Hooker's CDs have been featured on radio stations throughout Georgia and on HoundogRadio.com, a Stone Moutain, GA based web-cast station which also broadcast a live interview with the band in September 2005.
Now the train has left the station and the Hookers are out on the road playing their songs just like before, but with a new intensity and a new desire... not to kiss the ass of some suit with a record label, but to preach the gospel to the people who inhabit dingy bars the Hookers call home. Those folks are out there now raisin' their glasses high and shouting "Hell Yeah" all night long. Life at the Bar is not just a title, it's a way of life. Here it comes... get on board...