BIO
Vagabond Empire is an expansive new solo project for acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals, and whatever other sounds -- and guest players -- find their way into the mix.
Born from the ashes of critically acclaimed "bluevelvetgrass" string band Three Times Bad, Vagabond Empire's genre-blending set list combines Americana classics with dynamic originals from three song collections: Singalongs for End Times, After the Plague, and American Sojourn.
The music digs deep into 100+ years of American roots traditions, from Tin Pan Alley and early jazz, to folk, blues, bluegrass, classic country, Western swing, honkytonk, rock 'n' roll, and more.
Select tracks from the forthcoming album After the Plague were commissioned by the San Francisco Public Library for its Bay Beats 2024 archive.
Vagabond Empire is an expansive new solo project for acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals, and whatever other sounds -- and guest players -- find their way into the mix.
Born from the ashes of critically acclaimed "bluevelvetgrass" string band Three Times Bad, Vagabond Empire's genre-blending set list combines Americana classics with dynamic originals from three song collections: Singalongs for End Times, After the Plague, and American Sojourn.
The music digs deep into 100+ years of American roots traditions, from Tin Pan Alley and early jazz, to folk, blues, bluegrass, classic country, Western swing, honkytonk, rock 'n' roll, and more.
Select tracks from the forthcoming album After the Plague were commissioned by the San Francisco Public Library for its Bay Beats 2024 archive.
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ABOUT THREE TIMES BAD
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Epic "bluevelvetgrass" string band, Three Times Bad, and its scaled-down iteration, Critters, likened in Farce the Music to the Devil Makes Three and Shovels & Rope, were genre-bending groups that brought the "ecstatic hoedown" (SF Chronicle) of their live shows up and down the Pacific Coast for nearly a decade. Three Times Bad's American Sojourn record was named "Album of the Week" on Mike Morrison's AmericanRoots Radio for its "huge originality (and) mastery of their instruments." The group was a fixture on the regional festival circuit, including multiple runs at SoCal’s Ink n Iron Fest (with headliners Reverend Horton Heat, Iggy Pop, and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings), NorCal’s Humboldt Hills Hoedown (with Brothers Comatose, Hillstomp, and Dead Winter Carpenters), and San Francisco’s Hillbilly Robot (promoter Shelby Ash’s infamous annual "Urban Americana Music Event"). The band appeared at many of the Bay Area’s top music venues -- Great American Music Hall, Slim’s, Bottom of the Hill, Brick & Mortar, Café du Nord -- and supported leading indie touring acts (Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, CW Stoneking, Lydia Loveless, Old Man Markley, Larry & His Flask, Finland's Steve ‘n’ Seagulls) and world-class local groups (The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, Dirty Cello, Junk Parlor, Pine Box Boys, Mission Delirium, and many more).
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