Performing throughout the SF Bay Area and touring up and down the Pacific Coast for nearly a decade, THREE TIMES BAD played a high-energy, genre-bending form of “dirty American roots music” (the Register-Guard).

The “bluevelvetgrass” string band's debut studio recording, American Sojourn, was named “ALBUM OF THE WEEK” on Mike Morrison’s American Roots radio program: “American Sojourn is raw, atmospheric, and superbly arranged and played,” said Morrison, “and thanks to its huge originality will almost certainly be in many best-of-the-year lists! There is a mastery of their instruments and arrangements that enables them to roam at will through various old-time genres that contain not only a large slice of ‘hillbilly,’ but also folk, a little western swing, blues, jazz, all played in their own inimitably unique style.”

THREE TIMES BAD was a fixture on the regional festival circuit, playing multiple runs at Ink n Iron Festival (with headliners Iggy Pop, Merle Haggard, the Offspring, and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings), the Humboldt Hills Hoedown (with the Brothers Comatose, Hillstomp, Dead Winter Carpenters, and Hot Buttered Rum), Creating Commons Festival Hootenanny (at Oakland’s storied PLACE for Sustainable Living), and Hillbilly Robot (SF promoter Shelby Ash’s infamous annual “Urban Americana Music Event”).

The band also played the region’s top venues (Great American Music Hall, Slim’s, Bottom of the Hill, Brick & Mortar, Cafe du Nord, Dante’s Inferno), provided direct support for leading indie touring acts (CW Stoneking, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Lydia Loveless, Old Man Markley, Cutthroat Shamrock, Larry & His Flask, Steve ‘n’ Seagulls), and partnered with world-class local groups (The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, Dirty Cello, Pine Box Boys, Mission Delirium, Junk Parlor, One Grass Two Grass, Laura Benitez & the Heartache, Hernandez Hideaway, the Human Condition, and many more).