Biography – Discography – Press Photos – Reviews – Lyrics/Chords
“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 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”.
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…
