The Coal Porters

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“Sid Griffin and the Coal Porters, a proper band with albums and tours and a fiddle.”
The Guardian, Laura Barton’s Back Page column, Friday July 18, 2008

The Coal Porters are an exciting and dynamic bluegrass combo with a DYNAMITE LIVE ACT featuring Carly Frey – fine fiddle and vocals; John Breese - banjo and vocals; Sid Griffin - vocals, mandolin, harmonica and autoharp; Andrew Stafford, doghouse bass & lawsuits; Neil Robert Herd guitar, sporran and vocals.

Meet the Coal Porters, Live in 2011:

Durango – OUT NOW!

Durango is a career-defining release from the ever popular Coal Porters who are taking their Bluegrass inspired oeuvre to even wider horizons. This enhanced CD includes a mini documentary about the band.

The Coal Porters - Durango The album was produced by the legendary Ed Stasium, (Ramones, Phil Spector, Belinda Carlisle, The Smithereens, Gladys Knight, Mick Jagger, Jeff Healey) and recorded in Colorado USA April 2009 via the ‘Basement Tapes’ style with the musicians playing live and the band all looking at each other as they played…not a soul separated by glass or partitions.

Guest artists on the record are Peter Rowan, who sang and played guitar on his song “Moonlight Midnight”, and Tim O’Brien who played mandolin on “Roadkill Breakdown”.

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The Coal Porters play live in 2011

The Coal Porters

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The Coal Porters proudly and exclusively use D’Addario strings and other products.

The Coal Porters play Let’s Say Goodbye (Like We Said Hello) Live at KDHX.

Biography

Formed in Los Angeles during the last century, as so many things were, the Coal Porters were originally an electric act centred around ex-Long Ryder Sid Griffin, author of the Long Ryders 1985 hit single “Looking For Lewis And Clark”. Read on…

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Heres are the Coal Porters playing three songs from a BBC Radio Alba broadcast from the 2011 HebCelt Festival in Stornoway.

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Here is the live recording of the The Coal Porters performance at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky from Tuesday, February 15 2011.

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The tracklisting is as follows:
1) NPR intro
2) Let’s Say Goodbye (Like We Said Hello)
3) No More Chains
4) interview with Sid and Neil
5) Pike County Breakdown
6) Flying South
7) interview segment
8) A Light From The Mountains
9) They’re Burnin’ Down The House
10) DJ reads out recording specs (!)
11) Roadkill Breakdown
12) interview with John Breese, banjo
13) Closing Time Genius
14) Sail Away, Ladies!
15) interview with Sid
16) Final Wild Son
17) How Mountain Girls Can Love
18) Midnight Moonlight
19) interview with Carly Frey
20) New Cut Road
21) radio outro