RELEASE DATE:
March 21, 2025
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ALBUM ART, LYRICS & CREDITS
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AFTER THE PLAGUE PRESS RELEASE
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BIO
A new one-man band/solo project by Three Times Bad and Critters band leader Sam Prestianni (née Rev. Sam Cain), VAGABOND EMPIRE reimagines the Great American Songbook for a post-pandemic 21st century.
The massive set list digs deep into 100+ years of American roots music traditions, including vaudeville, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, Cotton Club, Gypsy swing, folk, blues, bluegrass, honkytonk and more.
After the Plague, a debut studio recording of original material, will be released in early 2025. The album is a deep dive into heartbreak, grief, compassion, and resilience that speaks to our precarious times -- and the joyful noise of collective uplift through the healing power of music.
A new one-man band/solo project by Three Times Bad and Critters band leader Sam Prestianni (née Rev. Sam Cain), VAGABOND EMPIRE reimagines the Great American Songbook for a post-pandemic 21st century.
The massive set list digs deep into 100+ years of American roots music traditions, including vaudeville, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, Cotton Club, Gypsy swing, folk, blues, bluegrass, honkytonk and more.
After the Plague, a debut studio recording of original material, will be released in early 2025. The album is a deep dive into heartbreak, grief, compassion, and resilience that speaks to our precarious times -- and the joyful noise of collective uplift through the healing power of music.
ABOUT THREE TIMES BAD & CRITTERS
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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 Americana 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 was a fixture on the regional festival circuit, including multiple runs at SoCal’s Ink n Iron Fest (headliners Reverend Horton Heat, Iggy Pop, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings), NorCal’s Humboldt Hills Hoedown (with Brothers Comatose, Hillstomp, 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). Their debut album, American Sojourn, was named "Album of the Week" on Mike Morrison's American Roots radio show. Ghost Town Stories documented a series of haunting live Critters performances in historic California Ghost Towns.
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