Bourbon Skiffle Company

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Bourbon Skiffle Company
General information
origin Hanover , Germany
Genre (s) Skiffle
founding 1972
Website www.bourbonskiffle.de
Current occupation
Dirk Fehlauer
Singing, guitar, banjo , mandolin
Wolfgang Düe
Kalle Kohlhaas
Martin Troike
Julian Bergerhoff
former members
Vocals, guitar
 Wilhelm Bauer
Washboard, harmonica
Hans Helmut "Hamlet" Hamisch
Piano, vocals
 Uwe Schnepel
Tea box bass , singing
 Jürgen Kraemer
Vocals, guitar
 Winnie Martin
Washboard
 Dete Kuhlmann, vocals
Piano, vocals, violin
 Thomas Voigt
Electric bass
 Manfred "Carpet" Müller
Guitar, mandolin
 Uwe Gõrth 1985-2004

The Bourbon Skiffle Company is a German skiffle band from Hanover .

Bourbon Skiffle Company at the Lion's Bastion at the Maschseefest 2013 with Thomas Abbe-von Dühren on the washboard

history

The Bourbon Skiffle Company was founded in 1972 in the Leine-Domicil pub in Hanover. After the first single, "Kiss me baby, kiss me", the first album was released in 1973, "Midnight Special". Several records by the Bourbon Skiffle Company were recorded in artificial head stereophony in the 1970s . The band's greatest success was the single "Giff mi Kalk", with which they appeared on the ZDF hit parade in 1980 .

Discography

  • 1973: Midnight Special (WAM / Metronome Records )
  • 1974: Dummy head stereophony (WAM / Metronome Records)
  • 1975: Bourbon Skiffle Company with Hot Pepper Orchestra (WAM / Metronome Records)
  • 1976: Dummy head stereophony II (WAM / Metronome Records)
  • 1977: Flohcircus (live) (Metronome Records)
  • 1978: Everyone makes it big (Nature / Metronome Records)
  • 1979: Giff mi Kalk (Nature / Metronome Records)
  • 1982: Jack o 'Diamonds (Red Button)
  • 1987: Back again (Pro-Sound Records)
  • 1992: BSC - 20 years (self-distribution)
  • 1997: Still alive (self-distribution)
  • 2004: Eleven (self-distribution)
  • 2007: 35 (self-distribution)
  • 2014: Silver Dollar (self-distribution)

literature

  • Matthias Blazek: The Lower Saxony Band Compendium 1963-2003 - Data and facts from 100 rock groups from Lower Saxony . Celle 2006, pp. 27-28 ISBN 978-3-00-018947-0 .

Web links

Commons : Bourbon Skiffle Company  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halbig, Matthias: "The Bourbon Skiffle Company from Hanover has been around for 40 years" , [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]], July 25, 2012.