BIOGRAPHY
THE LONESOME GAMBLERS started as a band in 2001 in Paris. Their wide repertoire goes from bluegrass to western swing including hillbilly and American folk music.
Particularly influenced by the latest Bob Dylan’s performances - "The Never Ending Tour" - the LONESOME GAMBLERS do adore peculiar great folk singers such as Derroll Adams, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tucker Zimmerman, Sammy Walker, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Ralph Stanley, Jimmie Rodgers or the Delmore Brothers ... and many others !
The band usually performs in various places: local festivities, workers or migrants’ homes, hospitals, country, western and regular music festivals…
In 2009, the LONESOME GAMBLERS have been playing more and more new songs, gathering about a hundred traditional folk standards, always on the road with Stetsons, Martin and Gibson along with them... « Hallelujah, they are ready to go »!
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