Who IS SUGARBUCKET

Pioneers of what many are calling Dunebilly-Disco, or Shantygrass, the polymorphous, multi-instrumental Americana/roots band SugarBucket was formed under duress and as a means to cleanse the transgressions from the eyes of their bewildered spectators. They marry the sounds of country, bluegrass, blues, roots, funk and disco with the most intimate sounds of childhood into an unholy conglomeration of rhapsody.

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BillY “BRewDawg”

Discovered in a stall of the Round Stone Shaker barn in Hancock, MA, the infant we would come to know as William “Billy””BrewDawg” Fitzgibbon was sentenced to the New York City orphanage until his escape at the age of 10. Though he had not even reached puberty, Fitzgibbon had the look of a rugged seaman; he stowed away on the Queen Mary- the mighty Mississippi’s most notorious gambling riverboat- where he singlehandedly over took the crew, proclaimed himself captain and hi-jacked the Queen Mary to the West Indies. We know little else about Fitzgibbon until his legendary underground bare knuckle boxing career ended in tragedy; Fitzgibbon beat his own twin brother to death in the ring. He now lives a quiet life on Cape Cod, enjoying life’s simple pleasures

C. “Cooter” pickens

Banished from the Highlands after violating Scottish law when they introducing a rare hallucinogenic herb into the mash, the Pickens’ clan packed up their still and settled deep in the Appalachia. There they made a fortune from their uniquely blended white lightnin’, that is, until the IRS burned their farm, stole the family recipe and took everything except a vengeance that runs as deep as the roots of a Blue Ridge Hemlock. On the run, many of the Pickens’ were strung up or gunned down except for the one bestowed with the name of his great-grandpappy, Chet “Cooter” Pickens. As the only surviving kin of that infamous runner, he continues this time honored tradition. And just like his daddy, and his daddy before, Cooter ain’t no different- he’s still a-runnin’, he’s just runnin’ a different kind of lightnin’.

And the runnin is good...for now

Bo hemuth a.k.a. Dr. Jacob Lubins

Since time immemorial an entity known as B’eu-Hemutt lingered in the depths of an ancient prison, in a domain so decrepit, so profane, not the light of day nor soul of man could escape it’s immutable grip. Not until modern man’s fury and lust for power unleashed a terror across the skin of the earth, a horrid consequent which saw the ablution of the Great Old One from its perverse tomb. Ye, there was a cursed juju about whence it arose; so then it was that with some divine necromancy, this foul beast was trapped inside the body and soul of one humble enough to hold it.

Enter: Dr. Jakob Alexandre Cornelius Lubins, owner of Dr. Loobins’ -hair combing and greasin’ service- out of Bath, North Carolina. Out for for a kindly stroll one late summer evening it hit him, his mama said it was a stroke, the preacher said it was the hand of god. But the good doctor himself will tell you it smells like burnt paint and jasmine. Whatever happened left Dr. Lubins with a crooked grin and the unexplainable gift of song. His soul now entwined with beast, it cries through this humble man, bringing the dirge of countless epoch. They sing to you now a wretched cry from a forbidden era.

Lukey peppers

His heart raced like the pounding of a thousand darbuka. He knew he’d be cursed. Imbibing the soft, ripened cheese was an abomination- for his religion would not allow it! Defiantly he felt his teeth tear thru the soft flesh of the rind exposing his lips to the dank, creamy innards. The mallow possessed him. He sobbed in ecstasy. Once a virgin now soiled like a dove among pigeons, His Holy servant Luke of Alflufaloo forsook his family name, stumbled out of the Levant like an urchin into a cataclysmic, geomagnetic anomaly which stripped him of all melanin. Now blessed with a mystical rhythm and a white-ish glow like the god of the sun himself, the locals call him “White Pepper” and his chants wash away the sins of the beautiful or the damned.

CHIPPY BOTTOMs

Chippy Bottoms started his life as every ginger child; a happy romp in the sandbox, sewing golden tuxedos for circus monkeys and, of course, overseeing the procurement of the world’s finest toe jelly. All too often though, a child wanders too close to the sun. This is when, during a brief period of high-density solar activity, Chippy, in the course of his normal childhood duties, incorrectly filleted a rather gangrenous pufferfish for his mid afternoon luncheon, which he ate happily and washed it down with an old jar of his grandpappy’s homemade mushroom beer. This combination would prove fatal to most 6 year olds...but for Chippy, it was the key to everlasting life. Now irradiated, he moves thru portals of space and time, an iron-human possessing a knowledge that no mortal man could ever understand. But, everyday he endeavors to show us ourselves through his ultimate, quantum knowledge, even though we cannot begin to perceive this gift. And as every sunset dissolves, he climbs into the stratus and becomes one with the void, until the earth’s sun returns and he is again reborn for us. And everyday he awakens to start this solemn life anew

Johnny Huge

Belgian lore claims a savage race of man would come from the north, bringing the might of a thousand armies, a thunder so true, it would surely turn an entire city to dust. It was said only the purest virgin sacrificed up on high could tame these northern beasts. And so, the legend came to pass, and these beasts came with all their violence, and the people had no choice but to seek out their most fair or be turned to dust themselves. But as they lay the virgin child of the Belgian king on the altar, the greatest of these fantastic beasts couldn’t help but look upon the beauty of their captor, for there was a sweetness to his soul. And her beauty was so pure, she could beguile a man with a wink of her eye. In that instant, taking up his hammer, he turned on his brethren and slaughtered them one and all, and in the name of his true love, he sacrificed his own immortal family to save this one perfect soul and purge himself of these blasphemous crimes. The city was spared by this king of giants, and as years passed, the people came to know him as “friend” or “hero”, for he had no name, his culture had no use for them, so the Belgians found a name that suited him... John Huge