Humble TripeUpcoming Release: Counting Stars
Release Date: 03/23/2010
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BIO:
Grabbing anything they can on the way out the door, Humble Tripe brings the back porch, the front porch, and anything you can find in your attic on stage, emerging as a magical musical tribute to life, love and Southern celebration.
Based in Durham, North Carolina, Humble Tripe came to form as the music project of Shawn Luby. Luby, a runaway from the competitive classical guitar world, hit the streets picking up any strung stick he could find, took a shot at songwriting, and finally began to sing. The journey got some juice when Luby joined up with drummer Melissa York, self taught pop-punk drummer extraordinaire (Team Dresch, Butchies, Amy Ray’s Band), and string player supreme, Stud Green. The result was a classical/folk/americana/ punk/pop trifecta meant to entice and lure in the next round of Humble Tripers.
The threesome next coerced ex-Texas first chair trumpeteer/Duke Phd recipient Kadji Amin to master the harmonica and pick up more horns, all the while convincing modern dancer turned bell-whacking-cymbal-crashing thumb harpist Jess Shell to give up a life of country livin’ and take to the road.
Humble Tripe’s debut LP, Counting Star’s, is a loving tribute to the tenderness and challenges of our desire to find companionship, places of solace, and celebration. Led by Luby’s vocal yearnings, the quintet weaves a together both a delicate symphony of string, brass and percussion, and a spirit of resilience through pulsating rhythms and triumphant declarations.
PRESS:“The voice of Shawn Luby, who leads Humble Tripe, is rich like loam, its low tones gilded above by incandescent flashes of something a bit feminine. Think a sonorous young Dylan migrating to Anacortes, Wash., and singing with more soul than everybody else in that lo-fi land.” -- Grayson Currin, Independent Weekly
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