We are very proud in the Betweeners to play "poor people's" music.
We are also very serious about not doing a poor job of it.
We are using the same pallet that rural artist from Robert
Johnson and Bill Monroe used to paint our own picture of the
human condition in the 21st century. We have never had more
fun in our lives doing anything that we can mention here and
we can only hope that our love of music and desire to be part
of the fabric that it weaves through our lives translates to
our audience through the static of a very noisy world.
"
Blues, bluegrass and everything in between... This simple
phrase that graces the opening page of this fine Kentucky
trio does as good a job as any of describing the band's sound." (An
Honest Tune Magazine)
The Betweeners are an acoustic band
who play original tunes covering many hues in the spectrum
of American roots music...falling somewhere between bluegrass
and blues, while squeezing in plenty of rock and soul. Influenced
by artists such as Ry Cooder, Willie Nelson, Mose Allison,
and John Prine, they sing honest and intelligent songs in
a style that brings together all of the great things about
rural Americana.
The band was founded by Hazard, Kentucky
native Stephen Couch. Not content with his roll as a multi-instrumentalist
for the award winning duo Zoe Speaks and the bluegrass group
The Kettleheads, Stephen formed The Betweeners, along with
bassist Owen Reynolds, guitarist Eddy Green and drummer Chet
Surgener as an outlet for his ever-growing original songbook.
Within six months, the quartet had arranged enough material
for three full length albums and set out to record their
first CD.
Along with talents of two- time IBMA fiddle player
of the year, Michael Cleveland, the group recorded "Matador
Karma" in July of 2003 and are recording their second
album set to be released in 2006. Live , the Betweeners loose
a storm of hot guitar and mandolin picking tempered by spine
tingling slide guitar playing. Songwriters of this calliber
rarely dish out this much instrumental sweetness upon a crowd
but the Betweeners are not your daddy's singer-songwriters. "Music
like this just fills the soul, gets your feet moving, and
puts a big old smile on your face -- it’s totally infectuous,
delightfully fun, and absolutely impossible to ignore." (Expose'
Magazine)
The Betweeners are members of The Kentucky Arts
Council Performing Arts Directory, Southern Artistry.org,
and are endorsed by Gage Guitars.
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