The Lazy Susans
The Lazy Susans played at End Of The Road Festival 2011.
Mellow as a harvest moon, hot as a Texan June, The Lazy Susans are a 5-piece chilli-powered purveyor of “western swing meets everything”. A country blues rock’n’rollin’ hoedown, they comprise three voices to die for, in a close-harmony embrace that will soothe your soul, mixed up with fiddles, ukulele, banjo, accordion, guitar and double bass. They are Rachel Thomas, Zara Ramm, Harry Banks, Saffron Young, and Tom Johnson. Their sound pays homage to the likes of Johnny Cash, Dan Hicks and Janis Martin (the ‘female Elvis’), whilst remaining contemporary and gritty. They are hot, and they are cool.
The Lazies hale from Stroud in Gloucestershire where they have being wowing audiences since they got together around 2 years ago. Za and Rachel had been singing close-harmony show songs with The Domestic Goddesses and decided on a change of direction. Along came Harry’s low voice and banjo picking’ fingers and a new sound began to emerge. The jet-fueled demon fiddler Tom kept on crashing their rehearsals so they gave in and invited him on board (Tom and Rachel were in Cajun rock’n’roll band Bootfare during the 90’s, generating a lot of excitement in Texas headlining Kerville Festival and playing South by Southwest in Austin). There was nothing left but to ask serious groove-mistress, Saffron, on board to keep things steady in the bass-ment. They are developing a seriously good crop of original material and as this copy goes to press they are in the studio recording their first album.
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