No, they aren't a honky tonk band.
Listen to their covers and you'll figure where they are commin' from:
Ted Hawkins, Lucinda Williams, X, Minutemen, Kiss, Tom Waits, The
Gourds, Carter Family, etc.
Keith's a very jazz-influenced drummer, but he's confessed that he used
to play Iron Maiden as a youngster.
Rob comes straight from post-punk rock (Picket Line Coyotes, with Kev.
and Jim 'o' The Gourds, were closer to Husker Du than anything else).
He learned the banjo just to play those songs.
I'm not so certain about all of Amy and Deborah's influences. I'm
pretty sure that before Austin and The Gourds they heard mostly pop and
folk (like most of us).
The Beatles are, of course, huge.
'Bout the exact same influences as The Gourds, but without the
occasional gangsta rap and honky tonk (both from Kev., mostly).
--Matt Cook
James Gerard Roll wrote:
>
> I haven't been following this thread real real carefully, so forgive me if
> I am re-iterating anything someone else already said.
>
> anyway, I find the Damnations to be much more of a 60's soul-oriented band
> deep down than a country band. I certainly don't hear any Louvins in
> there at all . . .
>
> By soul I mean the chord structure and rhythms are out of the Stax mold
> as opposed to the Hank Williams mold.
>
> -jim
