Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls

Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls

Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls·Sonntag, 22. September 2019·
Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls combine the voodoo rhythms of 1930's ska and the blues with old timey vaudeville cabaret. Music that makes people wanna shake their bones!
Dedicated to the subversive, the world of Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls is dark, animated and unusual. Seeking to amuse and draw the audience into an underworld filled with wonder, the macabre and the imagination they combine elements of Vaudeville, Skiffle, early horror films, early ska, calypso, old-timey country, and the Blues. This trio play a unique hybrid of early 20th Century music infused with dark Cabaret.
The driving force is Tim’s One-man-band set-up with Kick-drum, hi-hat and guitar while Jo’s sweet melodies tell terrible things. This is made even more bewitching as she switches from fiddle to mandolin to washboard. They are joined by James Le Huray on double bass and banjo.
A band that lives to perform, Jo Carley & The Old Dry Skulls have been touring extensively up and down the UK and all across Europe at some of the best festivals and clubs on the circuit.
So how did all this start? They first met many moons ago when Tim's band borrowed Jo's drum kit at a gig in London. It was back in the 90’s and they were both playing in separate bands and involved in the underground metal and punk scenes. Years later Jo discovered the music of Bill Monroe and Alison Krauss, and began playing the mandolin and fiddle. She recruited husband Tim as her song writing partner with the intention of starting a Bluegrass/Country/Roots band but the devil had other ideas and so in 2014 ‘Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls’ was born.
The final word goes to Jo Carley herself, "We write the music that we ourselves want to hear".
See you on the Road...
LATEST NEWS!
We are really pleased to announce that our new album ‘Shake Them Rattlin’ Bones’ is out now on Old Higue Records. It has been a year in the making and features nine tales that lure you between the cracks of reality and take you downtown to the underworld, where the hobos and down and outs are up to no good, jug bands hustle for change on poor man’s corner, zombies walk the night and the Voodoo Priestess rules all...
To coincide with the album release we are heading back on the road across the UK and Europe in 2019 and 2020.


Website: http://https://www.olddryskulls.com